Working with Traumatized Adolescents: How to Get Unhooked

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Martha Straus, PhD Related seminars and products

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Martha B. Straus, PhD, is an international trainer and speaker on topics related to child, adolescent, and family development, attachment, trauma, and psychotherapy. Straus’s postdoctoral years were spent in the department of psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She’s the author of seven books including the highly acclaimed No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Martha Straus maintains a private practice and is an instructor at Antioch University New England Graduate School and Smith College. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Straus receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Martha Straus has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Outline

• Welcome & Objectives
• The One Big Question
  • Dependability & Isolation
• Paradigm Shift of LH to RH
  • Co-Regulation
  • From Divided Brain to Dual Brain
• Attachment & Trauma
  • Classifications of Attachment
  • Therapy and Attachment Trauma
  • The Traumatized Teen
  • Dissociation
• Developmental Trauma
  • Misdiagnosis
  • Dysregulation
• Symptoms and Body Memories
  • “Feelings Flashbacks”
• Therapist in Trauma Therapy
  • Insecurity, Anxious, Dismissive
• Therapy and Attachment Trauma
  • Earned Attachment Security
  • Mirroring, Mentalization, Mindfulness, Modulation
    • Four Big Hooks
  • Empathic Validation
• Enactment & Self-Disclosure
  • Internal Working Models
  • Therapeutic Intervention Components

Objectives

1. Describe specific adolescent attachment styles as they relate to clinical practice
2. Apply the React, Reflect, and Respond model to best support adolescent clients in recovering from trauma

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