Adolescent Story Stems Profile Training

About this training

Unlike the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) which uses toys and dolls to illustrate story stems, the ASSP uses animated videos to tell the beginning of a story, which young people are then asked to reflect upon and respond to a series of questions regarding the characters and events in the different scenarios.

This half-day training course will present the context and background to the ASSP, drawing up its forebearer, the SSAP with its orientation around attachment. There will also be an overview of the principal constructs within which the ASSP is situated.

The training will focus on the six stories (animated stems) in terms of their respective roots and rationale, drawing upon the parallels across the stories as well as the more story-specific aspects.

It will further focus on the codes and constructs which the individual story questions/responses feed into as well as how to interpret ASSP scores and organise data generated from the young person’s responses into coherent codes to formulate a report.

You will be awarded a certificate upon the successful completion of the course (subject to tutor approval).

Aims of this training

• To teach the administration, coding and reporting of the Adolescent Story Stem Profile (ASSP).

• To allow for professionals working with adolescents to become trained and qualified to use the tool both clinically and within the research domain.

• To provide professionals with a shared forum/platform to think clinically about the material they are working with.

Who should attend?

• Qualified practitioners, with a degree-level qualification, in child mental health or social work.

• Postgraduate researchers (must be working with adolescents within a clinical or research setting).