Practical Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Children and Teens

Building a coaching practice involves practical arrangements of time, place and context. This is a "how-to” seminar where the techniques of coaching will be placed within the context of a coaching practice. You'll look at specific strategies and techniques such as:

• listening
• goal-setting
• opening
• expanding and focusing discourse
• questioning techniques
• transfer of training
• relapse prevention
• consultation and termination

You'll review record-keeping systems and forms such as coaching information sheets, parental consent, and session notes. You'll discuss assessment of child and parent needs, goal-setting and re-setting, and making and remaking agreements for how to work together. Ethical issues will also be addressed.

6.0 Category A Continuing Education hours for licensure have been applied for through NASW-NH.