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Developing Children’s Worry Wisdom:
Walk-in & Brief Narrative Therapy with the Problem of Anxiety
Karen Young M.S.W., R.S.W.
May 27, 2016
Oakville, Ontario
www.windzinstitute.com
Developing Children’s Worry Wisdom:
Walk-in and Brief Narrative Therapy with the Problem of Anxiety
Karen Young M.S.W., R.S.W.
Date: May 27, 2016 From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Anxiety is the most common problem children and their families bring to mental health professionals. about. In the very first session
we can go beyond just information gathering and referral onto waiting lists, and instead respond with immediate and useful help.
Brief Narrative therapy is an effective, engaging, and playful way to work with children who are experiencing anxiety. These ways
of working make it possible to: separate the child’s identity from the worry; uncover the rules that maintain and support the worry;
discover actions that are made difficult by the worry; find skills and abilities the child has that can be used to reduce the influence of
the worry; build new plans for action to decrease the impact of the worry; and create support teams to join with the child.
These conversations assist children to discover and develop their own “worry wisdom” to reduce the negative effects of anxiety on
their lives. The ideas and practices are useful in any therapy approach. Many therapists utilize these ideas within CBT and Solution
focused approaches. Through research we have developed practice-based evidence that supports the effectiveness of brief narrative
practices.
Participants in the workshop will learn:
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How to position themselves in ways that are engaging and respectful of children
How brief narrative practices assist children and parents to uniquely understand both the problem and unrecognized
knowledge and abilities
How to use a specific brief therapy practice guideline in work with anxiety
The process of developing supporting documents in walk-in & brief therapy sessions
How to find and engage support teams to assist the child to reduce anxiety
Evidence of what works gathered in co-research with children and parents
Recordings of walk-in and brief therapy sessions with children experiencing anxiety will be used to demonstrate
the ideas and practices.
Biography: Karen Young, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Karen is the Co-director, along with Jim Duvall, of the Windz Institute, operated by ROCK,
Reach Out Centre for Kids’ Centre of Learning. She is an institute faculty teaching many
of the Windz workshops and certificate programs. She provides supervision to interns,
organizes and designs training, oversees research projects, and for over 14 years has
supervised and provided single session therapy at the ROCK walk-in therapy clinic.
Karen has provided consultation and clinical training to many organizations in Ontario,
across Canada, and internationally regarding re-structuring service pathways to include brief services such as walk-in
clinics. She has been teaching narrative and brief narrative therapy for over 25 years and is a
therapist with 30 years of experience working with children and families. Karen has contributed numerous publications
regarding applications of brief narrative therapy and research in brief services and walk-in therapy. She co-authored
the Brief Services Online Course for CMHA Ontario (Duvall, J. & Young, K., 2015) and co-authored the Brief Services
policy paper for the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (Duvall, J., Young, K., Kays-Burden,
A., 2012), No more, no less: Brief Mental Health Services for Children and Youth. Karen was the lead in the first in
Ontario Brief Services Evaluation Project, 2014, a multi-organization evaluation of brief services. Karen has a great deal of knowledge and passion for narrative practices and is one of the few trainers who can teach
the traditional aspects of the approach and new evolutions in the thinking. She has particular expertise in
the application of narrative in brief and walk-in therapies. Karen is regarded as a trainer who conveys narrative ideas in
very clear and useable ways.
REGISTRATION FORM
To register, complete one form per person and send to: windz@rockonline.ca or fax to 905-339-3513, or mail to ROCK at 504 Iroquois Shore Rd., Unit 12A, Oakville ON L6H 3K4
LOCATION: Windz Institute At Reach Out Centre for Kids Centre of Learning Oakville
504 Iroquois Shore Rd., Unit 12A, ON, L6H 3K4 (Less than 2 kms from Oakville Go-train Station)
Dates: May 27, 2016 From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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