Session #: 718-304
Presenter(s): Martha Straus
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min. Event: 2008 Networker Annual Symposium Date: March 13-16, 2008
Some of our most frustrating teen clients struggle under the weight of complex trauma. Shouldering a legacy of insecure and unstable attachments, violence, neglect, multiple placements, and the attendant losses, these youths typically exhibit a level of anxiety, defiance, and complexity that can confound the most experienced therapist. In this highly practical workshop, we'll explore the impact and legacy of developmental trauma on children, teens, and families, and present dozens of effective interventions that you can take back to the office. You'll learn about building teams that offer multiple attachment relationships, fostering resilience, devising joyful consequences, reducing dissociative coping, building competencies, and developing coherent narratives. Through lecture, case examples, and lively discussion, you'll find reasons to be hopeful—and newly confident—that you can help traumatized teens.
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