Do your teen clients experience the following behaviours?
- Failing school and/or refusing to attend
- Exhibit severe behaviours: including stealing, lying, arguing, destruction of property and defiance
- Aggressive behaviours, violent outbursts, sexualized behaviours
- Legal issues and involved with systems of probation, courts and in home services
- Present as different people: nice and sweet, and then enraged
- May have multiple diagnoses: this is including (but not limited to) Oppositional
- Defiant Disorder, Disruptive Behaviour Disorder, ADHD, and/or Conduct Disorder
Teen clients who exhibit concerning problem behaviours are often challenging to therapists to not only engage in treatment but provide effective therapy. This workshop will address how to treat teens and their caregivers who have family relationship issues, attachment wounds and are using dissociation strategies. Participants will be learning and practicing innovative ways to engage the client, manage the dissociation symptoms and heal the client’s early attachment wounds.
Key Features of this Workshop:
- Review how to effectively reframe the negative behaviours of all family members
- Practice gathering an in-depth attachment history
- Review motivational intervention called Future Self
- Explain and practice over 20 soothing and grounding strategies
- Review and understand dissociation strategies and how to learn and work with parts of self
- Detailed transcripts of using different strategies with instructor’s teenage clients
Workshop Objectives
- Identify why traumatized teens may appear stuck or unable to move forward, and how this manifests itself in clients in school, home, and legal systems
- Distinguish “Meaning of Behaviours” of participant’s own client by utilizing a Teen consultation form
- Explain to caregivers about family dynamics, attachment wounds, and dissociative strategies to improve relational dynamics with teenagers.
- Describe evidence-based family therapy strategies which include recognizing “distancing”/ “contacting” parents and compose reframes negative behaviors of all family members
- Identify early attachment trauma symptoms and behaviors and understand how this leads to dissociative symptoms in teenagers
- Demonstrate an in-depth attachment history of caregivers and teens to assess attachment wounds and disruptions
- Summarize brain science and window of tolerance to help educate clients to understand their own reactive behaviors and utilize 20 interventions to return clients to the optimal arousal zone
- Distinguish Polyvagal theory to guide clients from improve states of mind and enhance their capacity for self-regulation.
- Recognize dissociation theory and a screening script to educate parents about problematic behaviors through the lens of dissociation.
- Describe “Come Together Script” to identify self-states and treat parts of self in dissociative teenagers
- Demonstrate effective treatment of traumatic experiences
- Examine step by step procedures through case transcripts
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for any mental health professionals (or graduate level students) working with children, adolescents and adults in a therapy session. This can include social workers, psychologists, counsellors, school counsellors and any other counselling disciplines.
Note: Although some EMDR strategies will be presented, no prior EMDR knowledge or experience is required.
Duration
12 hours via Zoom