411/511 Kids’ Skills
Ben Furman • Saturday All Day The problems of children and adolescents all over the world today are, too often, treated with drugs or behavioral management plans that only disempower the kids, as well...
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Lynn Lyons • Saturday All Day Research shows that children with anxious parents are many times likelier than other children to develop anxiety. Usually, both parents and children in these families have...
View Article403/503 Adolescence to Adulthood
Ron Taffel & Martha Straus • Saturday All Day We’re used to thinking about adolescents as learning to stand ever more securely on their own two feet as they emerge into young adulthood. But today’s...
View Article323 Nurturing Queer Youth
Linda Stone Fish • Friday Afternoon Most of our assumptions about working with families of adolescents fail to address issues of their sexual orientation. Yet many young people in therapy aren’t sure...
View Article319 Oppositional Teens
Martha Straus • Friday Afternoon Is it time to rethink the time-out as a disciplinary practice for out of control adolescents? The purpose of this widely accepted technique is to give misbehaving kids...
View Article229 The Dissociative Child
Joyanna Silberg • Friday Morning There are few clinical experiences as disconcerting and heartbreaking as sitting with a traumatized child experiencing dissociation. What do you do when a child or...
View Article221 Helping the Bullied Child
Stan Davis • Friday Morning Therapists often feel powerless to help a child who’s being bullied, and, as a result, may inadvertently increase the child’s self-blame. This workshop provides a systematic...
View Article214/314 Self-Destructive Teens
Matthew Selekman & Mark Beyebach • Friday All Day The challenge of treating adolescents caught in a cycle of self-destructive behavior and addiction can’t be overstated, but understanding the ways...
View Article211/311 Talking with Teenagers
Janet Sasson Edgette • Friday All Day Most teens are only in therapy because their parents, their teachers, the juvenile court judge, or some other authority has told them they must see a therapist—or...
View Article205/305 Traumatized Youth
Kenneth V. Hardy, Christiana Awosan, Cadmona Hall, & Heather Hay • Friday All Day Look into the troubled lives of many impoverished inner-city youth and you’ll often discover a walled-off history...
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