Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 8:30 am-10:15 am

 

 

• Understand what the new life stage of “emerging adulthood” (ages 18-29) is and how it developed over the past half century
• Identify the five features of emerging adulthood
• Consider variations in the five features by gender, ethnicity, and social class background

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 10:45 am-12:15 pm

 

 

• Identify the most common mental health problems in emerging adulthood
• Specify how the five features of emerging adulthood may underlie mental health problems
• Recognize that it can be problematic to distinguish normal development from mental health problems during the 18-29 age period

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 10:45 am-12:15 pm

 

 

In The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson proposed that future breakthroughs—the kind that substantially change and improve the lives of others—result from the intersection of ideas from different fields, disciplines, and cultures. In the field of behavioral health, there are two paths to create such intersections. The first is to actively draw on the rich historical threads within the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. A second is to connect with adjoining fields such as medicine, education, spirituality, and the sciences. The purpose of this workshop is to present these paths through ideas that have emerged from nearly a century of research and practice in psychology and psychotherapy and adjacent fields. Participants in this session will be introduced to a new “renaissance” in behavioral health, as it applies to adolescents and emerging adults to address the question, “What improves outcomes?”

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 10:45 am-12:15 pm

 

 

• Explain the differences between the fully matured adult brain and the young adult-adolescent brain (ages 12-26+) and discuss the implications on addiction development and recovery
• Assess parents’ roles in the systemic nature of the young person’s addiction and recovery and create an effective whole-family treatment plan
• Explore the stories of their young clients and describe the answers to the question, "What makes the client's behavior, attitude, emotions, and perspective make sense?" and from that description plan interventions that use the strengths of the client to make second order changes in their life

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 1:15 pm-2:45 pm

 

 

This presentation questions whether or not we, as an industry, could increase efficacy of treatment by approaching young adults using a more collaborative and developmental stance.  Failure to launch is epidemic, particularly among young adult substance abusers and addicts, and treatment often limits the paradigms of support groups and belief systems necessary to support sobriety.  A model for treatment, including career planning, re-entry to college, job counseling, personality development and achievement of appropriate levels of abstinence from substances is presented with a model for collaboratively approaching the client in a respectful and firm manner.  

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 3:15 pm-4:45 pm

 

 

• Improve in distinguishing normal development in emerging adulthood from mental health problems
• Recognize the developmental basis of mental health problems among 18-29-year-olds
• Apply emerging adulthood knowledge to a specific case familiar to them

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 3:15 pm-4:45 pm

 

 

Beyond the challenges associated with life transitions and “growing up,” young adults face substantial threats to well-being including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and trauma. As these challenges increase, it is necessary that practitioners not only rely on successful interventions to help to improve individual, interpersonal, and social functioning, but to employ strategies that help young adults flourish. Our aim is to create opportunities for young adults to do more than exist, waiting for difficulties to arise, by using strategies that focus on increasing well-being, thereby doing “better than zero.” The purpose of this workshop is to explore specific strategies to develop gratitude, meaning, character strengths, and systems of support to foster greater degrees of resilience and overall happiness in the present and future. Video excerpts and brief experiential exercises will also be used to enhance the experience of participants.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 3:15 pm-4:45 pm

 

 

Most clinicians practicing today first learned about sex from school friends, parents (if we were lucky), and a well-worn magazine or via generic school-based sexual education. Today kids (of all ages) have access to a great deal of inaccurate information regarding masturbation, dating and mating, sexual gender and orientation questions, sexual health, STDs and pregnancy—and this is likely a good thing. However, these same access points useful for gathering factual information also hold the door open to endless porn use/abuse, sexual deviancy and anonymous casual sex as well as an opening to forms of atypical sexuality that many children (especially pre-pubescent) are often not ready to understand or integrate. This timely session focused on kids, digital media and sexuality will offer attendees concrete information about "what is really going on" on Tumbler, Tinder and similar sites and apps. We will discuss digital monitoring for parents, i.e. filtering, tracking and blocking of sexual sites, with much time offered for questions and discussion of this much underserved topic.  

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 8:30 am-10:00 am

 

 

Decades ago, the noted psychologist Erik Erikson proposed that adolescence led to the next stage of psychosocial development: young adulthood.  However, within the past few years, psychologists and other cultural observers have suggested we might have a new stage of psychosocial development that now sits between these two developmental stages, one that Erikson never observed.  This stage, called emerging adulthood, refers to individuals who are older than traditional adolescents, but are not yet fully adults.  This stage has been shaped by significant cultural changes, such as later marriage, later career initiation, and new economic realities.  Not all of these emerging adults get stuck, but many of them do.  Learn about these young adults who fail to launch and the challenges they pose for clinicians.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 10:30 am-12:00 pm

 

 

Building on our new understanding of emerging adults, this workshop presents a model for how to actively engage young men and women in therapy and give them both the motivation and the skills to move forward with life.  Drawing primarily from the motivational interviewing tradition, Verhaagen gives a practical, positive, skill-based framework therapists can use in their work with young adults and their families.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 10:30 am-12:00 pm

 

 

Have you ever wondered what personality and behavior typology you might be?  How are typologies developed?  The use of typologies in psychology and counseling has been a beneficial approach to help clients identify their behaviors in groups of personality characteristics. This workshop will focus on the development of typologies and how they can help clients understand their traits and how they can overcome negative traits and build on positive ones. Eight different typologies will be presented for adult survivors of childhood trauma. These typologies will help establish goals in treatment and allow the therapist and client to measure their progress towards recovery.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016, 10:30 am-12:00 pm

Marc J. Romano, PsyD, RN, PMHNP, BC, CAP, LHRM

This session will include a review of the opiate epidemic that is taking hold in this country. While impacting all age groups, it is significantly impacting adolescents and young adults. The presentation will discuss the incidence and prevalence of opiate pain pill use and heroin use among adolescents and young adults. A discussion of the psychological effects of both short-term and long-term opiate use will be presented, as well as the physical effects. It will include case studies of young people who are presenting to treatment for opiate use disorders, including the age of first use which is often seen in the mid- to late-teen age range. Current research showing what factors may mitigate the use of opiates and other drugs during adolescence also will be presented. Current treatments for opiate addiction will be discussed, including both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. Finally, the audience will be provided information on current treatments for opiate overdose and the number of individuals who are dying every day from this epidemic. Other areas that relate to opiate use among millennials and generation Z will be discussed.

At the end of this session attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 1:30 pm-3:00 pm

 

 

Child abuse, addiction and other trauma often do not end with childhood.  When childhood is over, the survivors are adults.  Not all adult survivors become the walking wounded.  Many are able to grow beyond the experience and develop resiliency skills using a strength-based model of recovery based on emotional, social and spiritual intelligences. Resilience is the ability to thrive despite adversity and enables people of all ages and backgrounds to lead healthy and fulfilling lives despite formidable obstacles.  This workshop will focus on why adult victims of child abuse and other types of high risk families are not all the same and how many adults from high risk families have emerged as healthy and resilient while others continue to struggle. 

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 3:30 pm-5:00 pm

 

 

The second half of this two-part workshop provides specific tools for helping young adults in therapy.  Drawing from cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychology, as well as our developing understanding of mindfulness and acceptance, Verhaagen will give a practical, positive, skill-based framework therapists can use in their work with young adults and their families.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016 | 3:30 pm-5:00 pm

 

 

This workshop will focus on identifying saving-face behaviors and eliminating self-defeating behaviors that cause defeat and harm for many adolescents/young adults. Many “self-defeating” behaviors often are behaviors that once helped a person survive a crisis. Once the crisis is over the behaviors, though no longer needed, are maintained. The role of saving-face behaviors is very important to most adolescents, and instead of helping the adolescent they now cause harm by limiting the potential to develop healthy behaviors.  Eliminating self-defeating behaviors and replacing them with life-enhancing skills will be the goal of the workshop.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

• Describe Neuroplasticity and its application to treatment
• Understand how Interpersonal Neurobiology affects development
• Describe what Transferable Attachment is and identify key components of the concept

 

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 8:30 am-10:00 am

 

 

This workshop will explore the unique matrix of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty leaving home.  It will provide both a conceptual framework for understanding the reasons behind the increasing number of young adults who are unable to achieve self-reliance, as well as a systemically-based treatment framework that will enable practitioners to support these young adults and their families in getting unstuck and experiencing age/stage-appropriate growth and development.  Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the complex psychological challenges that parents and their young adult children encounter as the former prepare to let go of hands-on parenting in preparation for the next phase of their lives and the latter forge a path towards self-respect and self-sufficiency.  Participants will also become acquainted with an innovative approach to sponsoring family communication at the launching stage, one that reduces tension, resolves conflicts, and promotes differentiation and evolution on both generations’ parts.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

P06 - Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) with Adolescents

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 10:30 am-12:00 pm

 

• Understand the concept and expanded notions of Metallization-based Therapy (MBT) interventions for adolescents.
• Determine ideal patients to receive this protocol.
• Apply Metallization-based Therapy ideas in treatment planning.

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

 

 

Crossing the threshold from childhood to adulthood is a daunting process, one that is often waylaid and derailed by a constellation of complex forces that lie both within and outside of the young adult.  This workshop will present a psychotherapeutic enterprise that supports young adults’ passage from adolescence to autonomy and their determined efforts to construct a supple and resilient identity, one that enables them to seek out and ultimately experience a life of meaning, mastery and satisfying relatedness. Applicable whether the clinician is engaged in individual or conjoint family treatment, this approach will build on the primary developmental tasks that young adults must master as they leave their childhood and family behind and demonstrate how to heighten their resilience, self-awareness and self-assuredness such that they are able to establish and attain realistic goals, ambitions and aspirations during the early stages of adulthood.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

 

 

• Be aware of the principles of logotherapy and recite them.
• Be aware of how to use principles of logotherapy to instill hope in adolescents and emerging adult with substance use disorders, mental illness, and co-occurring disorders.
• Be aware of how to use principles of logotherapy to help adolescents and emerging adults live a purposeful life.

 

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

 

 

It is impossible to discuss and promote young adults’ successful departure from home and their capacity to achieve psychological self-reliance without simultaneously addressing their financial self-reliance.  When young adults are not separating effectively from their families, it is often because the two generations have not been paying close enough attention to the sometimes maladaptive ways in which they have been negotiating, earning, exchanging, withholding and spending money. This workshop will explore the many roles that money plays in intimate relationships, and present a clinical paradigm that will help families to examine the ways in which their approach to family commerce may be supporting and/or impeding a young adult’s capacity to move forward.  It will also illuminate some of the fiscal dilemmas that families at the launching phase typically grapple with, such as the ability to distinguish between subsidies that buttress young adults’ self-confidence and independence and subsidies that undermine their autonomy and self-regard.

 

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:

 

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2016 | 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

 

 

This workshop will prepare participants to help adolescent and emerging adults cope with the wide range of losses they experience, including: the loss that accompanies giving up alcohol and other drugs; death of a parent, child, or sibling; ambivalent deaths; unspeakable deaths; parental abandonment; the end of an addictive relationship; loss of the peer group, “not making the cut,” loss of dreams; loss of employment; and betrayal. Fifteen strategies for helping adolescents and emerging adults cope with loss will be discussed.

               

Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to: