The Teen Self-Esteem Workshop: Strategies to Help Teens Build Confidence, Resilience, Respect and Personal Efficacy

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Principles of childhood development, including the appropriate supervision of children, meeting the needs of children enrolled in the program with physical or emotional challenges and behavior management and discipline

Child and youth development

 

Helping adolescents build high self-esteem is key to their success. As a youth service provider you have many opportunities to help adolescents build self-esteem, which will be explored in this workshop. In this workshop adapted from the book, “Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens,” by Cassandra Mack, participants will discover simple yet effective strategies that they can utilize to help adolescents build developmental assets, healthy confidence and high self-esteem. The objectives of this workshop are to help participants:  develop a better understanding of the four criterion for healthy self-esteem in order to help teens strengthen their core self-esteem; explore strategies to build developmental assets in teens utilizing the 40 Developmental Assets Framework; explore ways to help teens identify self-defeating beliefs and behaviors that create deficits in their lives and set them up to fail; help teens recognize how low self-esteem can lead to depression, underachievement, poor relationships and high-risk behaviors; help teens develop a better understanding of the correlation between self-respect, respect for others and healthy self-esteem.