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Helping Adolescent Girls in Crisis (A320)


Average Rating:
   5
Faculty:
Martha Straus, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 31 Minutes
Format:
Audio Only
Copyright:
Jan 03, 2006
Product Code:
NPC095525
Media Type:
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Description

Session 1:

  • The secret lives of teenage girls
  • Adolescence: Theirs and ours 
  • Adolescent development : The growing brain and the hostile culture
  • Systems in an uproar: Home, school, work, community
  • The protective circle of adults and Adult Deficit Disorder

Session 2:

  • Attachment and separation in adolescence
  • Direct and indirect communication and aggression
  • Reading the subtext of adolescent girl behavior
  • Therapy in the storm

Session 3:

  • Internalizing problems
  • Cutting and suicide attempts
  • Thoughts on interviewing and intervening

Session 4:

  • Externalizing problems
  • Sexual acting out, ODD, girl rage
  • Thoughts on interviewing and intervening

Objectives:

1. Read the subtext of provocative, self-destructive, and confusing behaviors
2. Interview and intervene in the most stressful cases including: social aggression,
self-injury, suicidal gestures, and oppositional and defiant acting out
3. Identify a protective circle of adults around troubled girls

Credit


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Faculty

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Martha B. Straus, PhD, is an international trainer and speaker on topics related to child, adolescent, and family development, attachment, trauma, and psychotherapy. Straus’s postdoctoral years were spent in the department of psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She’s the author of seven books including the highly acclaimed No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Martha Straus maintains a private practice and is an instructor at Antioch University New England Graduate School and Smith College. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Straus receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Martha Straus has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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