Maybe you are the adult teenagers open up to. This course takes you inside how they grow up: the body, the thinking, the feelings, and the crises that knock them sideways. Study online, at your own pace.
Schools, youth services and family support teams take on people who understand what is going on for a teenager. This course gives you that grounding, and the career centre helps with your CV and your interviews.
Teachers, youth workers and coaches are in the room with this every week. You learn what sits behind the behaviour, how crises build, and how to guide a young person through a rough patch.
Parents take this one too. It is online and self paced with no exams, so you can work through it in the evenings, and what you learn lands at home straight away.
These skills are wanted across schools, youth services and family support teams. The work is easy to picture: sitting with a teenager who has gone quiet, running a group after school, and telling a parent what you noticed.
Working alongside young people day to day, where knowing how they develop shapes every call you make.
Running groups and activities after school or in the community. Social and moral development is the heart of it.
Supporting students who are struggling, with the emotional side of the age already covered here.
Working with a young person whose behaviour has become the problem. You learn what sits under it.
Working with whole families, where the teenager is often the reason the door opened.
Meeting young people where they are. Understanding a crisis, and what a role change does to them, is used every day.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Counselling, psychology and therapy roles need accredited study and supervised practice.
Nine topics, from the theories behind human development through to the move into adulthood.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Not a paragraph inside something else. You look at how a crisis builds for a young person, and how to guide them through a role change or a rough patch.
Sexuality in adolescence, moral development and social development each get their own topic, so you are not guessing your way through the conversations that matter most.
You look at why bullying and behavioural problems happen at this age, and how you might address them without making things worse.
You cover the nine C's of decision making and how higher order thought processes arrive in the teenage years. It changes what you expect of them, and when.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded when you finish the course, ready to go on your CV.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits, so the study counts on your record.
Career centre access from the day you enrol, with a CV review and interview preparation.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the nine topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None. It opens with the theories behind human development and builds from there, so you can come to it cold.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 90 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
Plenty of people take it for that reason. You cover how their thinking changes, why their feelings swing, and what a crisis does to them at this age. It lands at home as much as at work.
This is the cheap, fast way to find out whether that path is worth your years and money. It does not lead to registration as a psychologist, counsellor or therapist, and it does not include supervised clinical training; those run through approved study and supervised practice. What you walk away with is a grounding in how young people develop, which is what support roles run on.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For support roles around young people, what counts is that you understand what is going on for them, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the afternoon a teenager who has gone quiet for weeks sits down across from you and tells you the whole thing.