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Meaningful Engagement with the Substance Abusing Adolescent Male

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1.5 CE Hour
Clinical
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Description

This presentation will focus on how to best engage adolescent males and young men who suffer from primary substance abuse diagnosis and co-occurring issues within a therapeutic context. Research driven approaches and techniques will be explored and applied to direct service delivery. Adolescent developmental issues, including exploration of the developing adolescent male brain, social influences, and family systems will be considered. These modalities taught will be multi-sensory focused, explaining how such approaches as Impact Therapy, kinetic engagement and experiential exercises lead to enhanced comprehension of traditional therapeutic skills and techniques. This presentation will provide demonstrations on how to effectively incorporate the 12-step philosophy, CBT, Transactional Analysis, family systems and other proven strategies into the adolescent’s treatment experience.

Target Audience
  • • Psychologist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to provide participants with insight to the current profile and stats of the substance abusing male, completed with proven strategies and techniques to engage this population effectively.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least 2 developmental issues that should be considered when providing treatment to the adolescent male.

  • Explain how brain development impacts the adolescent male treatment experience.

  • Describe at least 2 effective strategies to increase comprehension of skills taught.

  • Summarize the statistics and trends that lead these young men to seek treatment.

  • Explain how to integrate the 12 step philosophy into traditional therapeutic approaches.

References

  • Boer, M., van den Eijnden, R. J. J. M., Boniel-Nissim, M., Wong, S.-L., Inchley, J. C., Badura, P., Craig, W. M., Gobina, I., Kleszczewska, D., Klanšček, H. J., & Stevens, G. W. J. M. (2020). Adolescents’ intense and problematic social media use and their well-being in 29 countries. Journal of Adolescent Health, 66(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.02.014

  • Das, J. K., Salam, R. A., Arshad, A., Finkelstein, Y., & Bhutta, Z. A. (2016b). Interventions for adolescent substance abuse: An overview of Systematic Reviews. Journal of Adolescent Health, 59(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.021

  • Djohari, N., Brown, A., & Stolk, P. (2017). The comfort of the river: Understanding the affective geographies of angling waterscapes in young people’s coping practices. Children’s Geographies, 16(4), 356–367. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1341971

Intermediate
Clinical
Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 Clinical continuing education credits.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by ARCH Academy/Cumberland Heights Foundation. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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  • Lunch
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  • Workshop Begins & Ends
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  • Break
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  • Networking
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Note: Time designated for lunch, breaks, Q&A or networking cannot be counted toward CE credit.
R. Dean Porterfield, LPC, MHSP, NCC

Dean Porterfield currently serves as the Executive Director of Adolescent Recovery of Cumberland Heights (ARCH) Academy and is on the Leadership Team of Cumberland Heights Foundation.  Dean has been with Cumberland Heights for 14 years.  As the Executive Director Dean oversees the adolescent programming, including residential, IOP and prevention outreach services.  Dean is also the owner of Do Life! Counseling and Consulting, PLLC in Nashville, Tennessee.  

Dean has served as Executive Director of an outdoor therapeutic program for adolescent male for over 10 years.  Dean also has served on the Board of Director of NATSAP (National Board of Therapeutic Schools and Programs) and frequently presents at national, international, and local conferences.  Dean is also an approved LPC clinical supervisor.  

Dean has over 25 years’ experience working with the adolescent population and their families.  He believes in a strengths-based approach and understands that authentic relationships with the teens and families he serves is paramount for lasting change.  Dean is also invested in combining true tested approaches such as the Twelve steps with other evidenced based clinical modalities of intervention to treat not only the substance abuse, but also the underlying struggles that complement the teen’s self-medicating behavior.  Dean is a sought-out speaker who has spoken at numerous conferences nationally and internationally over the course of his career.   

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