These conversation cards create, evolve and shape surprisingly meaningful perspectives on life. Thursday 10th and friday 11th december, 2020 workshop times. The thriving adolescent offers teachers, counselors, and mental health professionals powerful techniques for working with adolescents. A guide to living an extraordinary life, and the newly released book, the thriving adolescent.
Turrell is primary investigator, working in collaboration with mary bell, for studies of groupbased acceptance and commitment therapy act, and is developing a mobile act app for adolescents. While intended for children it is also appropriate for teens and adults. Coauthor of the bestselling books get out of your mind and into your life for teenagers, and the thriving adolescent. The thriving adolescent book downloads thriving adolescent. They can be just about anything, such as family, hard work, success, or having a good time. And the definitions of marriage and sexuality are now winnowing issues outside the church community and within. These metaphors are often used in therapy or given to clients. A guide to living an extraordinary life, and the new book for teachers, therapists and counsellors on act for young people, the thriving adolescent.
Act for adolescents is a mustread for professionals working with adolescents and their primary caregivers. Based in proven effective acceptance and commitment therapy act, the skills and tips outlined in this book will help adolescents and teens manage difficult emotions, connect with their values, achieve. Using acceptance and commitment therapy and positive psychology to help teens manage emotions, achieve goals, and. Adjustment, purpose and flexibility introductory level. The thriving adolescent addresses the social landscape of adolescence, from the intricacies of developing healthy selfnarratives to creating naturally occurring prosocial groups that help adolescents discover the practice of kindness to self and others. For use with the totika stacking game, totika thumball and any other totika game.
Act made simple, getting unstuck in act, act questions and answers. Values worksheet adapted from kelly wilsons valued. The book includes worksheets, exercises, and scripts focused on helping young people develop the tools they need as they transition into adulthood. I am a scientist, university professor, and book author, and ground all my speaking in best available evidence. Ask them to elaborate on each very important value reflect. Popular across the world for many years with adult and adolescents. Louise hayes values cards, which are included in her book the thriving adolescent, make a fantastic tool for exploring values by. Act for young people the thriving adolescent with louise hayes thursday 14th and friday 15th of november, 2019. Sometimes, people lose sight of their values they live their life in a way thats incongruent with what they believe. Visual metaphors, audio,and the survey of life principles are ed to ciarrochi and bailey c 2007. Act for young people the thriving adolescent with louise hayes thursday 10th and friday 11th of december, 2020. Values are a persons beliefs about whats important, or what matters most to them. This is a musthave resource for anyone working to help adolescents thrive.
Ask them to study the cards for several minutes and try to identify a meaning that. Conversation 36 card set, with questions to open up deep conversations. The thriving adolescent moves beyond traditional behaviorisms to present a new perspective on engaging young people in vitalizing relational ways. Theres a variety of free resources here, to use with russs selfhelp books the happiness trap, the confidence gap, the reality slap, act with love and his textbooks. Values in therapy is a powerful and practical guide for any therapistchockfull of insight and tools to conceptualize, integrate, and effectively apply values work insession with an emphasis on cultivating meaning and vitality in client lives, the values component of acceptance and commitment therapy act is what draws many clinicians to the treatment model. This study focused on the relation between adolescents basic personal values, so as conceptualized in schwartzs value theory, and sense of coherence soc. Dr louise hayes act trainer and clinical psychologist. The thriving adolescent offers powerful techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy act and positive psychology to help adolescents manage emotions, connect with their values, utilize mindfulness, and develop healthy relationships. Dnav developmental model of act for helping young people with climate anxiety.
As always, all profits go to a sanjiwani, a remote health clinic in nepal 2 sets in one box. Thank you for your interest in focus on the familys thriving values resources. Here for your pleasure is a free set of 40 strengths cards from thriving adolescents, created for use with teens although like most good resources they could be used with adults or. An introduction to the act matrix webinar, with richard bennett thursday 27th feb, 2020.
Find the fire inside with dnav scroll down for new release videos to to inspire your work with adolescents we are excited to now have 3 simple videos that can help introduce young people to their dnav. Now you will have a way to show young people, inspire them, fire. Embracing the moment act conversations thriving adolescent. Adolescents basic personal values and sense of coherence. They help to reduce the amount of verbal noise in therapy. Values and conversation cards combined set thriving. Senior fellow with the university of melbourne and orygen youth health. According to david elkind, teenagers question societys rules and become involved in idealistic causes because they can. The cards can be used, for example by laying out 810 cards and explore what cards the client finds tempting to look into. I offer a wide range of workshops, trainings, and keynote presentations to organizations, leaders, schools, teachers, psychological practitioners, and the general public. Values cards for use in individual and group therapy with young people.
Download the personal values questionnaire and supporting articles. Australia the values cards in english can be purchased in our online store, all proceeds go to charity click here. This book is a mustread for teachers, school counselors, therapists, and anyone else who. The dnav four animations explaining advisor, noticer, discoverer and dnav to young people. Another popular measure is the personal values questionnaire. Louise hayes has chosen to share the cards to raise money for a village health service in nepal. Even though its critical that young people develop their own personal values, parents continue to shape and influence their childrens values throughout the teenage years and into adulthood. Values and conversation cards combined set thriving adolescent. As always, all profits go to a sanjiwani, a remote health clinic in nepal. I payed an artist to create these metaphors based on some of my own ideas and many many ideas from the act. Using metaphor in acceptance and commitment therapy webinar, with niklas torneke.
The wild cards can represent a word or value that they feel is important to them but may not be represented among the 36 other values. How do your values differ from those of your family. Europe english speaking the cards are being sold through contextual consulting,all proceeds go to charity click here. Values exercise explain values using the compass metaphor and provide a personal example of own values have child consider the different domains of their life and how values who and what matters most to them help guide their compass ask child to look at photos on their phone ipad to help tease out their values example on next slide. Five questions to help clients move toward what matters. Permission is granted to the reader to reproduce this form for personal use. Just like values work, strengths are verbs, not nouns. Thriving adolescent, using acceptance and commitment. Soc, which describes a general attitude towards life in terms of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness, is a resource for coping with stress and improving health. Strength cards in colour from the thriving adolescent can be found. When a person fails to live in accordance with their values, they will often feel unsatisfied. If you wish, allow them to write their own values on one or more of these blank cards. Dimensions of values and their links to personality. Find the measure here, as well as some empirical support.
I care values activity this is a very fun, engaging and. Values cards for youth and adults association for contextual. For example, someone who values their family very highly, yet spends little time with them, is unlikely to feel content. In this activity, you will sort these cards into five different piles depending on how important each one is to you. Values and conversation cards combined set dr louise hayes. Act for young people the thriving adolescent with louise. Creating perspectives that are sometimes new, and always far from ordinary. Below are a number of links to visual metaphors broken into parts to make download easier.
Values are directions we keep moving in, whereas goals are what we want to achieve along the way. I teach concrete ways to increase wellbeing, social connectedness, and effective action. Now you will have a way to show young people, inspire them, fire them. The quality most likely to promote thriving in a teenager is having. She is passionate about her clinical work with adolescents, helping them move toward a life that matters. Value card sorting exercise for life in general and for work. Education doesnt matter much at this difficult age. Values conversation cards for download or purchase can be found.
Louise hayes values cards, which are included in her book the thriving adolescent, make a fantastic tool for exploring values by encouraging conversation and discovery around what matters to adolescents. To download the instructions for the happiness trap values, goals and barriers cards, click here. Russ harris values identification form, which was adapted from kelly wilsons valued living questionnaire, can also be easily adapted for values work with teens. The physical properties and richness of act conversation cards make values discussions a place to linger.
Enhancing your act practice with relational frame theory rft a masterclass. Using acceptance and commitment therapy and positive psychology to help teens manage emotions, achieve goals, and build connection at. The book is rich with ideas at the interface between positive psychology and youth development, and with practical strategies for helping young people identify meaningful goals and life values. Turrell, phd, is a clinical psychologist living with her family in toronto, on, canada.
Her hope is that if you find these cards useful, you will consider making a small values based. Translations other than english you can download and print for free click here. The colour version of the cards and download link can be found here. Monitor your child especially carefully if he is an earlymaturing boy. Reading the thriving adolescent sets you on a journey into the hearts and minds of young people in a way that is unique, fascinating, and incredibly informative.
Act values and conversations cards are therapeutic tools for working with values and building conversations. Sorry due to the high postage prices i am not able to ship these outside. Adolescent is discussing puberty with parents of preteens. The following guest blog is contributed by louise hayes, phd, coauthor of the best selling book, get out of your mind and into your life for teenagers.
Act conversationscards are a therapeutic tool for working with values. Act conversations cards are a therapeutic tool for working with values. For a couple of years now i have been training adolescent values by using printed cards to facilitate conversations. Strength spotting card sort free download thriving adolescent.