Communication Skills for System-Involved Youth and Their Families

Brooke Hailey, PhD

Training Description

This training will help participants understand the basics of healthy communication. They will learn about skills needed to communicate assertively and set healthy boundaries. They will also learn how the brain responds to anger and how to identify signs that anger is escalating. Participants will learn communication strategies as well as long term communication skills which can be taught to system-involved youth to help prevent anger outbursts and promote health communication and relationship outcomes for system involved youth. Finally, participants will learn what behaviors and dynamics hinder healthy communication so that these can be addressed within affected system-involved youth and their families.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

· Identify and teach system-involved youth the 3 types of communication;