1st basic course: Systemic work in child and youth welfare

Specialists (psychologists, educators, social workers, social and remedial educators) in "educational support" facilities, youth welfare offices, counseling facilities.

• Degree as a state-recognized educator, state-recognized social worker or social pedagogue, psychologist (others on request)
• Professional field of work in which the implementation of systemic ideas and approaches is possible or may become possible
• For the transition from the basic course to the advanced course: Participation in the advanced course must be approved informally by the course instructors.

By teaching systemic thinking and systemic methods, the participants' professional competence in the field of "educational support" is expanded. The implementation of systemic work in daily professional practice is accompanied by a process.

• Fundamentals of the systemic approach
• Systemic conversation with children, adolescents, parents and other participants (questioning techniques: e.g. context questions, resource-oriented/circular/hypothetical/paradoxical questions, questions about differences and exceptions, reinterpretations, miracle questions, scaling, PELZ model)
• Order clarification and order patterns (e.g. coercive context)
• Genogram, photogram, resource wheel
• Attitude: appreciation, solution and resource orientation, impartiality, curiosity, not knowing, neutrality
• Reflective team
• Initial interview
• Appreciative understanding of family systems
• Appreciative exploration for children "Treasure hunt" - finding resources Interventions
• Relationship building
• Importance of rituals
• Representational work (family board, sculpture, resource animals)
• Externalizing
• Hypnosystemic approaches
• MiniMax interventions: simple linguistic interventions
• Help plan discussion, goal definitions (SMART, motto goals, etc.)
• Parent coaching, dealing with adolescent violence
• Working with stories and metaphors
• Biographical methods (e.g. Time Line) - past, present and future as a resource
• Systemic programs ("I can do it") and games
• Resilience and salutogenesis
• Child endangerment, families with addiction problems and mentally ill parents
• Reflection on implementation with children and parents
• Ending the help

A wide variety of methods :

• Teaching, demonstrations, role plays, small group work, video sequences (including Arist v. Schlippe, Haim Omer, Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer), reflection and, of course, practicing, practicing, practicing!

Participants will be provided with extensive teaching material as well as course and photo documentation.

Teaching trainer of the Institute for Systemic Work Chemnitz - ISA Chemnitz

Contributors:

• Rita Freitag, Dipl.-Sozialpädagogin (FH), systemic counselor, therapist (DGsP, SG), supervisor (DGSv), teaching therapist (SG), hypnotherapist (n.R. M.E.G.), systemic lecturer (DGsP), Teaching Counseling and Therapy (DGSF), Teaching Supervision (SG)
• Matthias Freitag, graduate psychologist, systemic counselor and therapist (SG), teaching therapist (SG), lecturer in counseling and therapy (DGSF), systemic lecturer (DGsP), lecturer in counseling and therapy (DGSF), lecturer in supervision (SG)
• Further lecturers