The Acting Out Adolescent

Innovative Strategies for Intervention and Treatment
by David Wexler, PhD
David Wexler, PhD
CE Hours: 6

Ordering Info

Online Home Study: $60.00

The course is appropriate for clinicians, families, and educators who are often challenged by adolescents with behavior patterns and emotional reactions that seem "uncontrollable". By recognizing the fundamental deficits in the teenager's sense of self-cohesion, participants can more clearly relate to and offer interventions for aggression, anxiety, self-destructive behavior, identity problems, self-esteem issues, and substance abuse.

 

Using an integrated treatment strategy emphasizing practical interventions from cognitive-behavioral therapy, self-psychology, and neo-Ericksonian interventions, this home-study course will help participants develop innovative ways of fostering self-control, self-esteem, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and self-soothing in teens.

 

HOME STUDY COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Controlling "uncontrollable" behavior
Aggressive and self-destructive behavior
Understanding teens from a self-psychology perspective
Integrating cognitive behavioral strategies and self-psychology
Challenging irrational beliefs
Developing skills in "pacing & leading"
Utilizing advanced re-framing and narrative interventions (changing the story)
Developing visualization strategies
Applying solution-oriented psychotherapy
Fostering self-regulation
Challenging attitudes, countertransferance, and true goals
Learning creative parent and family intervention
Developing application of the PRISM model

This course presents the original work of a distinguished
theorist/practitioner in this field.

 

Includes 3 Cassette Tape Set, 43 page Syllabus with 36 question test - 6 CE

 

Continuing Education

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid course fee, completed evaluation, and completed post-test with passing grade of 75% in order to receive a certificate. Failure to complete and submit these materials will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
IL-MFTs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. (6) hours.
NY-LMHCs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. (6) contact hours. Live in-person.
NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. (6) contact hours. Live in-person.

Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0005. (6) contact hours. Live in-person.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.