Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Child and Adolescent Counseling

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Join Dr. Eboni Webb for this compelling 90-minute recording that focuses on racial trauma through the lens of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

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Watch Dr. Sharon Saline in this recording that dives into practical, collaborative tools for addressing the educational and mental health concerns of kids who learn differently. Packed with insight and concrete strategies, this program will prepare you, your clients/students, and their families for a successful school year

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Join child and adolescent CBT expert Dr. David Pratt for this compelling 90-minute training designed to set you and your clients or students up for success in the school year.

Alexander Street Video: 1:58:00
In this session, you will learn: the biological/neurological effects of trauma; the effects of ACEs on children’s cognitive, language and social-emotional development; caregiver-child interventions to promote attunement and affect management; and child intervention strategies to promote resiliency and facilitate developmental skills for self-regulation. You will learn a framework that requires an integration of cognition/language and temperament/sensory/regulation factors. Interventions combine a mindfulness/mindsight approach for both caregivers and children.

Alexander Street Video - 1:29:00
Join Janine Halloran, author of best-selling “Coping Skills for Kids Workbook” to show kids simple, healthy, and safe ways to identify and express their emotions and calm their bodies. By discovering coping skills, they’ll be better able to focus on their work during school time and spend time connecting with their families when schoolwork is done.

ProQuest Video: 1:31:33
We know that change can be hard for young people. But what about unexpected, prolonged, uncertain-of-when-it-will-end change? Join executive function experts Drs. Lynne Kenney and David Nowell for this compelling 90-minute training.

Alexander Street Video: 2:06:00
Join international trauma experts Peter Levine, creator of Somatic Experiencing®, and Dafna Lender, Theraplay® and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy trainer, in this recording as they share their insights, expertise, and clinical experience treating childhood trauma.

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Dr. Michel takes a positive psychology approach to promote optimum development and wellness in working with adolescents and young adults. She defines the strength-based approach and discusses the benefits of using that approach with this population. In Part 2, Dr. Michel facilitates a mock session with a high school student to demonstrate the strengths-based approach. In Part 3, Drs. Dermer and Michel review the mock client interview and discuss the strategies and techniques Dr. Michel demonstrated in the session.

Alexander Street Video - 1:26:00
This recording offers effective interventions for individuals, dyads, families, and groups. Don’t miss it! You’ll emerge energized, prepared, and ready to face the future.

ProQuest Video: 1:30:18
Join child and adolescent clinician and suicide/self-harm expert Dr. Tony Sheppard for this compelling 90-minute recording designed to help you identify and intervene when working with young people engaging in self-harm or expressing suicidal ideation.

ProQuest Video: 2:38:16
We are in uncharted waters when it comes to children’s technology usage and what it means for the psychological issues that will arise from it. With each passing year, mental health professionals are being forced to find answers for the negative aspects associated with this ever-increasing integration of technology and kids’ lives.

Alexander Street Video: 2:50:00
You have the clinical skill set to work with children and adolescents in your office. But are you confident in how you can translate those skills to a virtual setting? Packed with over creative interventions and insights, this 3-hour recording is sure to leave you inspired and full of ideas for your next tele-session

(ACAC) Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC) aims to focus on the training needs of counselors who work with children and adolescents, while also providing professional support to those counselors, whether they are school counselors, play therapists, or counselor educators.

(National Institute of Mental Health) Mental health is an important part of overall health for children as well as adults. For many adults who have mental disorders, symptoms were present—but often not recognized or addressed—in childhood and adolescence.

(American Psychological Association) Children sometimes need psychological help, just like adults do. Treatment typically begins when parents, teachers, or school counselors notice that children aren’t functioning as well as they could.

(American Counseling Association) Childhood through the adolescence stage is a critical period for mental and physical development. Nearly 1 in 5 children have a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. Supporting mental health of children and youth in educational, community, and childcare settings benefits early diagnosis, intervention, and treatment.

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Learn how CDC works to identify policies and practices that connect more families to mental health care

(National Alliance on Mental Illness) One of NAMI’s main goals is to ensure that people get help early. Since mental health conditions typically begin during childhood, adolescence or young adulthood, we have compiled essential information and resources intended to help young people get the mental health support they need.

(Play Therapy Omaha) We are a mental health counseling center located in Omaha, Nebraska.

(American Psychological Association) Teens undergo dramatic changes. In addition to the biological changes of puberty, they experience cognitive changes that allow them to think more abstractly. They become increasingly focused on friends. And as they seek greater independence, they often come into conflict with parents. Most get through adolescence with few problems, establishing identities and preparing for adulthood. Some, however, experience problems that can lead to dropping out of school, drug use, or crime.

(Center for Play Therapy; University of North Texas) Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

(Association for Play Therapy) APT defines play therapy as "the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development."