Working with Traumatized Adolescents: How to Get Unhooked DVD

by Martha Straus PhD

1 hour, 59 minutes

To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents, it’s crucial for therapists to first foster their own capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when our young clients’ extreme reactions-ranging from angry arousal to frozen shutting down-can trigger our own sense of helplessness, failure, dissociation, and rejection. In this workshop, you’ll discover how to get unhooked from this nonfunctional cycle by exploring:

• Specific adolescent attachment styles that interact with or trigger our own
• How to apply the React, Reflect, and Respond model to best help your clients
• The Four M’s-mirroring, mentalizing, mindfulness, and modulation-to increase connection and mood regulation
• How to use attunement - including strategies of validation, self-disclosure, and the compassionate sharing of adult feelings and opinions-to bring traumatized teens back into relationships with themselves and you

Outline:

• Welcome & Objectives
• The One Big Question
• Paradigm Shift of LH to RH
• Attachment & Trauma
• Developmental Trauma
• Symptoms and Body Memories
• Therapist in Trauma Therapy
• Therapy and Attachment Trauma
• Enactment & Self-Disclosure