The Team of Life narrative approach uses sporting metaphors to enable young people to deal with traumatic experience without having to speak directly about it. Young people are invited to consider who the members of their 'Team of Life' are:
Who make up some of the team members of your life? These people can be alive or no longer living. They can be present in your life now or people who you have known in the past. Who are the people who have been most influential (in a positive way) in your life? Who is your goal keeper? If you had to name one person who looks out for you, who guards your goals, who is most reliable, who would this be? Who is your coach? Who is it you have learned most things from?. What are some of the things that they have taught you? What is your home ground? Where is the place you feel most 'at home'? Your home ground might be somewhere that you go regularly, or somewhere that you only visit in your memories or dreams now.
Young people then go on to speak about their favourite ways of 'tackling' problems, the 'goals' they wish to 'score', and so on. This DVD outlines the key steps in the Team of Life methodology which is now being used in a wide range of contexts: in schools, with refugees in Australia, with young men in prisons in New York State, with young people in Norway, Uganda, Brazil, Palestine, and elsewhere.
This book responds to the urgent need for practical intervention approaches targeting young people at risk. It provides a much needed practical resource for practitioners and students from a variety of helping professions. Focusing on interventions that practitioners can use in collaboration with the young person, the book offers hands-on strategies for addressing challenges and issues typically faced by young people, such as: - depression, suicide and self-harm, substance misuse, problematic sexual behaviour, marginalised youth and mental health issues. Throughout the book, multi-disciplinary and international authors share their expertise, highlighting relevant evidence-based... More info
Knowing our place examines the way in which children view their world. It poses questions of citizenship and how children come to a sense of belonging in their community of nation, family, classroom and school. This book describes and analyses the responses of more than 400 young Australians to a series of open-ended questions about belonging, identity and social and political power. While the fundamental aim of the book is to identify and describe aspects of children's thinking as they grapple with their developing sense of being in the... More info
Therapy to Go - Gourmet Fast Food Handouts for Working with Child, Adolescent and Family Clients. This book comes highly recommended by staff at Kyabra Community Association. This convenient collection of handouts provides a wide range of ready-made activities for all kinds of therapists working on a professional level with child and adolescent clients and their families. The handouts provide creative approaches to a variety of presenting problems including anxiety, anger, depression and family issues and the age-range appropriate to each activity is indicated on the handouts. This book is fully photocopiable;... More info
