First Sessions with Children & Adolescents

 2 hours active CPD

Working with young people adds complexity to your clinical work on a day to day basis. You now have more than one client to engage, build rapport, and develop treatment goals with. This module will focus on some of the key considerations of working with young people, from ethical, competency and practical aspects.  

What's included?

  • 10 Chapters
  • 1 Certification
  • 20 videos
  • 5 PDFs to download

Active, interactive CPD

Written by experienced trainers, we know that you don't learn well just watching pre-recorded webinars.  This module is truly interactive with a constantly changing combination of videos, readings and activities to keep you engaged and encourage deep learning.

A deeper understanding

This module stimulates reflection on the added intricacies when working with young individuals in clinical settings. It emphasizes managing multiple client engagements, rapport-building, and goal-setting. The focus is on ethical, competency, and practical considerations specific to working with young people.

Dr Alison Bocquee

Dr Alison Bocquée is a clinical psychologist, Board Approved Supervisor, and Advanced Accredited Child and Adolescent Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, with over 20 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents, and adults, in a range of different settings in Brisbane. Alison is passionate about continuing to provide therapy to a caseload of clients, as well as supervision and training, with a particular focus now on the provision of schema therapy focused training primarily to other child, adolescent and family therapists. One of the things Alison loves about schema therapy is the importance it places on authenticity and a genuine therapeutic relationship and she endeavours to create the same safe connection and environment in her trainings to provide safety for attendees to actively participate and benefit from the training.
"Each person's learning journey and development as a psychologist is unique, and I am both honoured and delighted to have a role in that."

Dr Alison Bocquee

Clinical Psychologist 
Board-approved Supervisor
Advanced Accredited Child and Adolescent Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer