Training courses

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Training courses

Target audience

The course series is tailored for individuals in various professional roles, including teachers, educators, managers, social workers, PPR psychologists, and others engaged with children and youth demonstrating early signs of school absenteeism.

Enroll in one or multiple courses offered in Drive’s comprehensive series addressing concerning school absenteeism and school refusal. The structure of the series allows flexibility, enabling you to participate in a standalone course or progressively enhance your expertise by taking two or all three courses in the series.

What do you get from the courses?

With the course series, you receive:

  • Comprehensive knowledge based on theory and practical experience that can contribute to reflection processes and offer new perspectives on one’s daily practice.
  • Presentation of concrete, practice-oriented tools and methods that can be taken home and applied in one’s own practice.
  • Experimentation with tools and methods alongside other participants, with the opportunity to tailor these tools to one’s own needs.
  • Collaborative exchange and sharing of knowledge with fellow participants.

Course overview and content

Addressing early signs of school absenteeism

This course focuses on proactive approaches to addressing concerning school absenteeism and school refusal. It provides an understanding of what involuntary school absenteeism is and how it can be defined as a condition for which no one is to blame.

The course offers:

  • Concrete methods and tools that can be applied when you identify a child who is struggling and beginning to withdraw from school. These methods can involve both individual children and the entire class.
  • Knowledge about how attendance records in schools can be used as an analytical tool to assess whether the absenteeism is a cause for concern.
  • An understanding of how to identify patterns in absenteeism and when there is a need to react, either as an individual teacher or collaboratively with possible involvement from others outside the classroom.

A solution-oriented model for how schools, municipalities, and extracurricular institutions can collaborate on cases where children are beginning to show signs of distress through school absenteeism.

When children are absent from school

This course focuses on potential explanations for a child’s absence and incorporates an understanding of resistance and motivation in the child. The course provides:

  • Concrete conversation methods, for instance, when visiting a child with involuntary school absenteeism.
  • Knowledge about how to work with resistance and motivation in individual children and how to collaborate with parents on these efforts.
  • Understanding of how to ensure that the cause of the child’s absence from school is addressed, including how the child can be involved in understanding the root cause of the absenteeism.
  • Methods for using attendance records in schools as an analytical tool to assess whether the absenteeism is a cause for concern. It also explores collaboration among schools, municipalities, and extracurricular institutions in cases where children are beginning to show signs of distress through school absenteeism.

When absenteeism persists

This course delves into understanding the root causes of prolonged school absenteeism and explores the systems that impact the child and the family. The course provides:

  • Insight into factors that can be considered triggering, perpetuating, or protective in relation to involuntary school absenteeism.
  • Knowledge about the impact of prolonged school absenteeism on the child’s family and how to work with the child’s entire system.
  • Understanding of what anxiety is and knowledge about the anxiety issues that may arise in school absenteeism cases.
  • Concrete tools for parent collaboration and how to maintain effective parent collaboration based on theories of professional responsibility in parent collaboration and mentalizing conversation techniques.

Practical info

Price

One course: 1250 DKK; all three courses: 2500 DKK. The course series is structured so that you can either attend a single course or participate in all three courses.

Registration

Email to nadiakl@fondendrive.dk. Payment via MobilePay or invoice.

Where

Billund: Drive School of Motivation, Kløvermarken 33, 7190 Billund and Copenhagen: Fonden Drive, Martinsvej 7.9, 1923 Frederiksberg

When

  • Addressing early signs of school absenteeism
    Billund: 29 Jan 2024 – 10.00-13.00
    Copenhagen: 24 Jan 2024 – 13.00-16.00
  • When children are absent from school
    Billund:: 5 Feb 2024- 10.00-13.00
    Copenhagen: 8 Feb 2024 – 13.00-16.00 S
  • When absenteeism persists
    Billund: 4 Mar 2024 – 10.00-13.00
    Copenhagen: 6 Mar 20.24 – 13.00-16.00
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