Adolescence Brain Development 24/25

Target group

This course is targeted to professionals who have organisational responsibilities for SEND at all levels, including:

• children and adult social care staff, educational settings (early years providers, schools, academies, free schools, colleges), nurses, GPs and other doctors, allied health professionals, therapeutic roles, practice leads, foster carers, residential care staff, commissioned providers and private and voluntary organisations.   

Aims

The aims of this session are:

• To be provided with information about adolescent development from a neurological and psychological perspective
• To have an introduction to the way adolescent brain development impacts on learning, behaviour and emotional well-being
• To be provided with information related to risk taking and reward seeking, emotional well-being and mental health, social relationships and sleep
• To be be provided with evidence from the latest research in this field and ideas about how this can be applied to supporting adolescents
• To have an opportunity to reflect on changes which could be made to the way practitioners support adolescents in light of the information presented

Learning objectives

At the end of this course participants will have:

• An increased understanding of research-based evidence related to adolescent development
• An improved knowledge about how changes to the brain impact on learning, behaviour and emotional well-being for adolescents
• An increased understanding of how to support some of the challenges which are inherent within adolescence due to its unique developmental changes