Description
To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents, it’s crucial for therapists to first foster their own capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when our young clients’ extreme reactions-ranging from angry arousal to frozen shutting down-can trigger our own sense of helplessness, failure, dissociation, and rejection. In this workshop, you’ll discover how to get unhooked from this nonfunctional cycle.
CPD
Continuing Professional Development Certificates
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Outline
- Welcome & Objectives
- The One Big Question
- Dependability & Isolation
- Paradigm Shift of LH to RH
- Co-Regulation
- From Divided Brain to Dual Brain
- Attachment & Trauma
- Classifications of Attachment
- Therapy and Attachment Trauma
- The Traumatized Teen
- Dissociation
- Developmental Trauma
- Misdiagnosis
- Dysregulation
- Symptoms and Body Memories
- Therapist in Trauma Therapy
- Insecurity, Anxious, Dismissive
- Therapy and Attachment Trauma
- Earned Attachment Security
- Mirroring, Mentalization, Mindfulness, Modulation
- Empathic Validation
- Enactment & Self-Disclosure
- Internal Working Models
- Therapeutic Intervention Components
Objectives
- Describe specific adolescent attachment styles as they relate to clinical practice
- Apply the React, Reflect, and Respond model to best support adolescent clients in recovering from trauma
Target Audience
Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals
