The challenges and obstacles of working with adolescents and young adults call for special skills and strategies as well as an understanding of this group's social milieu and culture. Join colleagues for a premier conference addressing cutting edge issues and clinical skill building for working with those whose lives have been impacted by addictive disorders, behavioral issues and mental health problems. This conference will be valuable for any one who works with this population whatever their professional setting may be.
| Special Focus On: | Topics Include: | |
| • Trauma Treatment | • SCARS: Working with Addicted Young Adults | |
| • Anxiety Disorders | • Mother and Teenage Daughter Dynamics | |
| • Addictions in Youth | • Choice Based Therapy | |
| • Attachment Based Therapy | • Trauma Treatment | |
| • Adolescent Brain Development | • Addictive Disorders and the Adolescent Brain | |
| • Adverse Childhood Experiences | • Neuroscience and Trauma Treatment | |
| • Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults | ||
| Who Should Attend? | • Resistance, Hostility, Resentment, Avoidance and Excuses | |
| Enjoy networking with those working in the areas of: | • Adverse Childhood Experiences | |
| • Mental Health | • Cultivating Resilience | |
| • Addictions Counseling | • Co-occurring Disorders | |
| • Marriage and Family Therapy | • Suicides, Shootings and Cyberbullies | |
| • Psychology | • Trauma and Opiate Addiction | |
| • School Counseling | • Relational and Transgenerational Trauma | |
| • Registered Nursing | • Grief and Post Traumatic Growth | |
| • Courts and Corrections | • Uncovering Undercurrents for Lasting Change | |
| • Prevention | • Cannabis Use and Legalization | |
| • Employee Assistance | • Mindfulness in Today’s Changing World | |
| • Pastoral Counseling | • Teens and Social Media | |
| • And Other Fields | • Autostress Disorders | |
| • Attachment Based Family Therapy | ||
| • Motivating Hard to Engage Parents in Treatment | ||
| • Traumatized Adolescent & the Family System | ||
| • Overtaken: Understanding Adolescent Substance Use | ||
| • Ethics and more. | ||
| PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: | ||
| Participants will be able: | ||
| 1. To identify treatment approaches for successfully treating adolescents and young adults with chemical dependence, trauma, co-occurring disorders and other psychological and behavioral issues. | ||
| 2. To be able to discern symptoms and characteristics manifested in these disorders and to diminish/correct their negative impact on the client’s interpersonal and family relationships. | ||
| 3. To identify the impact of trauma, anxiety, attachment issues, and substance use on youth and best practices for treatment and how to bolster resilience. | ||
4. To identify advances in the assessment of at-risk factors for adolescents and young adults and their treatment. | ||
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