Depression, Anxiety & Anger: An Integrated Approach to Support System Involved Youth

Michele and Tory Ponsford

Training Description

Explore new ideas to understand the emotional needs of System Involved Youth through an integrated approach.  You will gain knowledge and skills to support System Involved Youth to integrate their emotional experience through emotional awareness, acknowledgment, effectively embracing emotional experience, interpreting emotional needs, and responding to emotional needs through responsive behaviors. Learn and practice somatic techniques that allow the emotional energy to be released from the body to decrease emotional depression, suppression, anxiety, and anger.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will gain knowledge of what emotional experiences contribute to development of depression, anxiety, and anger in System Involved Youth.

· Participants will understand how to organize and interpret emotional experiences for System Involved Youth versus denying or controlling emotions through behaviors.