BT06 Short Course 22 - Connecting with Kids: Experiential Therapy for Adolescents - Jaelline Jaffe, PhD

Description:

Most therapy is verbal and logical; most troubled teens are neither! Brain scans now explain why, and we need to connect with kids where they are. Adolescents respond to experiential and behavioral approaches. Successful intervention with teens includes activities engaging the body, mind, emotion and creativity to accomplish far more than talk therapy alone. Come experience several fun, interactive strategies immediately useful with teenage clients, no matter how withdrawn, hostile, or defensive they appear to be.

Educational Objectives:

1. To describe two therapeutic activities designed to engage adolescents.
2. To list the eight types of multiple intelligences and give an example of a therapeutic intervention for each.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*