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Adolescence - MP3 plus Transcript

8 CEs

This progam includes the following tests:

ADOLESCENCE (MP3)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Become familiar with an alternative view of psychopathology in adolescence.

2. Learn how adolescent development in girls presents different challenges than in boys.

3. Learn how acting out adolescents can be treated in a brief treatment, managed care environment.

4. Learn how angry adolescents can be defused, reframed, and redirected.

5. Learn how mourning and grief in adolescence shapes the developing child.

6. Become familiar with cognitive therapy treatment techniques for working with depressed adolescents.

Tape 1

CURRICULUM SUMMARY

Interviews #1 and 2

1. H. Spencer Bloch, MD "Adolescent Psychology"

Dr. Bloch explains his model of conceptualizing acting out behaviors in adolescence, developmental difficulties, predictors of an adolescent's ability to use peer relationships to facilitate emancipation, and the unique challenges faced by adolescents today.

2. Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D. "Early Adolescence in Girls"

Dr. Lloyd Mayer discusses differences in male and female development in early adolescence, how the interaction of social learning and biology produces salient differences, why adolescent girls experience pressure from parents, and what kinds of pressure, and comments on the gender of the therapist treating and adolescent female.

Tape 2

Interviews #3 and 4

3. James Alexander, Ph.D. "Adolescents in Managed Care"

Dr. Alexander, who has developed a model of work with acting out adolescents within a managed care environment, discusses the goals of the first session, the motivation phase of treatment, positive predictors of outcome, and the biggest obstacles in overcoming delinquent conduct.

4. Mark Masi, Psy.D. "Angry Adolescents"

Dr. Masi describes his model of therapy for treating aggressive adolescent clients, the primary tasks of this model, the important interactions that take place within this model, and making connnections with the adolescent.

Tape 3

5. Colin Pereira Webber, M.A. "Parent Loss in Adolescence"

Colin Webber, who has worked with parent loss for many years, describes the coping styles of children who have a lost a parent, the difference between adjustment and internal processing, the challenges faced by adolescents dealing with the death of a parent due to their stage of development, and the defense mechanisms most likely to be used by a bereaved adolescent to protect against marcissistic injury.

6. David Wexler, Ph.D. "Cognitive Treatment with Depressed Adolescents"

Dr. Wexler discusses his "freeze frame" technique in working with adolescents, and how this strategy can be used to short circuit the behavioral pattern when the trigger for a behavioral pattern is encountered. He also addresses the comments of his critics.