WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE WHO USE VIOLENCE, AGGRESSION OR JUSTICE INVOLVED

This one-day workshop will shed light on the complex youth justice system and explore the underlying drivers for engaging in problem behaviours and their nexus with mental ill-health. This workshop will be helpful for a broad range of practitioners and lived experience workforces.

Young people involved in the justice system have high rates of mental health challenges and neurodiversity. As a result mental health services and clinicians are increasingly supporting young people that are using violence and display other problem behaviours. Understanding the reasons underlying these concerning behaviours, their antecedents, and intervention strategies, is an important area of competence for youth mental health clinicians.

At the completion of this one day workshop, you will be able to:

-understand the Youth Justice System in Victoria and common experiences of young people in contact with this system.

- describe the Victorian court system and identify key legislation that applies to the Youth Justice system in Victoria.

- understand reasons why young people might use violence.

- screen for forensic risk in young people and formulate problem behaviours and consider implications for treatment.