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Stop Walking on Eggshells:
How To Do Counseling with Reactive and Reluctant Adolescents
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Janet Edgette, PsyD
This home study was recorded at a recent 2-day professional workshop. Professionals who listen to the tapes or CD’s, read the accompanying materials, and pass the post-test will receive 6 hours CE/CME credit.
Home Study Content
The home study may be ordered either on audiotape or CD. Each kit contains 13 CD’s or cassettes, all slides and other course materials used at the live workshop, a post-test, and complete instructions.
Course Description
This practical and original workshop teaches how to work with teenagers who may show little interest in sitting in a room and discussing their problems with an unfamiliar adult. Many of these clients come only because they
are told to, and have many ways to communicate their disinterest in therapy or even contempt for the process. Learn how to avoid the traps of becoming too careful or self-conscious with the rejecting teenage client, or,
alternatively, of trying harder than the client to make the therapy work.
Dr. Edgette shows how to orchestrate individual and family sessions that genuinely appeal to these kids and offer them dignified, face-saving ways out of their problems. The workshop stresses that holding teenagers
accountable for their actions and choices is just as important as providing compassion for their plights, and helps attendees manage impasses and confrontations while keeping the therapeutic relationship intact. It also
covers working collaboratively with parents, teachers, and other third parties who may have unrealistic expectations about how therapy can work. Numerous case examples from Dr. Edgette’s practice are used to illustrate how
to intervene in ways that avert power struggles and going nowhere conversations that frustrate therapists and bore their young clients.
Objectives
Learners completing this home study will be better able to:
- Avoid common first session mistakes that cause adolescent clients to lose confidence in their therapists ability to help
- Refrain from asking the three questions adolescents hate the most
- Identify five adolescent beliefs about change that interfere with the therapeutic process
- Create a therapeutic environment and relationship that genuinely interests adolescent clients in the process of changing
- Use candor and forthrightness in speaking with your adolescent clients without being hampered by self-consciousness or concerns about keeping the peace
- Discern critical individual and family issues quickly and intervene constructively within the first or second session
- Defuse and constructively manage complex, conflict-filled, or volatile situations that arise in session with adolescent clients and their families
- Hold the adolescent client accountable for his/her actions without fracturing the relationship
- Help your young clients find face-saving, dignified ways out of their dilemmas
Information
This home study was recorded live at a recent workshop conducted by Dr. Edgette, and is available either on CD or audiocassette
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Cost
$79.00
To purchase, click here or contact IAHB/Seminar Services at 866-272-8497.
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