The Adolescent Brain Workshop

Utilizing Neurobiological Information to Enhance Mental Health and Learning

Presenter
Dr Pieter J. Rossouw (University of Queensland, Australia)

Date
TWO-DAY WORKSHOP
9am to 4pm, Thursday the 3th & Friday the 4th of September 2015
Dunedin, NZ

Audience
This workshop is designed for educators, counsellors, psychologists, special education teachers, social workers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and students in any of these fields.

Purpose of Workshop
This workshop focuses on the development of the adolescent brain – how the brain is affected by genetics and how genes express as response to the environment. The development of the anxious brain is important to understand neurological, neurochemical and neural structural changes in adolescence (the “chaotic brain”) until it reaches maturity (mid 20’s).

Learning objectives covered:
– Are all brains the same?
– Is it all not just a matter of genes?
– Neural plasticity, neurogenesis and mirror neurons.
– What role does environment play in brain development?
– The difference between bottom up and top down approaches and implications for learning
– Implications for wellness
– How the brain get programmed to become anxious
– Educational models and the effect on brain development
– Applied Intervention strategies to address the unwell brain
– The effect of fear based learning and approach learning styles on the brain
– Maximising learning, motivation and innovation
– Establishing control by changing neural firing
– Building self-esteem through down regulation of fear
– Enhancing a sense of meaning through increasing dopamine and focus
– Brain based interventions – key to wellness.

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Cost
$595.00 including GST if registered before 1st of August
$645.00 including GST if registered after 1st of August
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