Thursday, June 12
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, FAAP
This powerful, all-day session with a truly dynamic clinician and teacher will focus on improving communication skills with teens. Giving you the tools you need to work more effectively with kids and to strategize with parents to help their teens stay safe and healthy, this Preconference received stellar reviews when presented in 2007. Comments such as, “Great strategies for working with kids … the love really comes through,” “inspiring...you make me want to do a better job,” and “engaging, dynamic and motivating…helped re-charge my enthusiasm for working with teens” attest to the fact that this is one session you don’t want to miss!
Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, from the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, lectures widely to professionals and parents in an effort to assure that children are prepared for a safe passage through adolescence. The author of several excellent books on parenting teens, including the book, A Parent’s Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings, Dr. Ginsburg is dynamic and thought-provoking. He uses humor, real-life scenarios and poignant cases that will pull at your heart strings and motivate you to want to make a difference in the lives of the adolescents you see. Dr. Ginsburg’s concrete tools and effective approaches for interviewing and counseling teens and their parents will help you encourage behavior change when you see a teen headed in the wrong direction.
Come prepared to be challenged, to interact, and most of all to develop a plan for building on the strengths of youth to help them overcome risk and achieve their potential.
This Preconference will enable you to:
- Create a zone of safety in your encounters with adolescents that clearly communicates that you are trustworthy.
- Explore the concept of promoting resiliency.
- Learn how to motivate young people toward wiser decisions. Help them focus on what they are doing right to gain the confidence to move forward with safer behaviors.
- Facilitate adolescents’ own wise decision-making, recognizing that the typical model of adult intervention -- lecturing -- usually backfires.
- Implement a stress reduction plan with children and adolescents and equip them with a wide repertoire of positive behaviors.
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