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Exploring the Essential Features of “Janine Oliver & Sharon Saline – Toxic Online Culture: Connect with Young Clients in the Age of Influencers, Social Media, Bullying & Delayed Adulthood – PESI”
For many of us, our young clients have grown up in a social media age that simply didn’t exist for us.
Kids are uniquely vulnerable to the mental health problems that come from influencer culture, celebrities’ flashy lives, cyberbullying, and reality TV.
It’s no secret that this can lead young clients to view their therapist as “out of touch” or having less legitimacy than TikTok stars.
Our young clients fall prey to increased depression, anxiety, shame, poor body image, and self-esteem… These problems are preventing some from meeting the demands of adulthood.
In this course, you’ll gain a comprehensive set of durable skills young clients can take through adulthood.
- CBT exercises to help clients reframe negative self-talk and improve critical thinking
- EFT and mindfulness exercises to combat addiction to short-term gratification
- Eliminate harmful pop culture depictions of mental health, while asserting your professionalism
- Brain-based, self-regulation strategies to manage overstimulation
PLUS, an incredible bonus package with eBooks and trainings on boundary setting, gaslighting, “frenemy” culture, and more!
Help your clients escape toxic online culture and move them toward a rewarding, meaningful adulthood!
What’s inside this course?
- Strategies for eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and other maladaptive behaviors
- 50+ activities, exercises, free printable worksheets, & more to make therapy easier
- Techniques to work with challenges unique to Gen Y, Gen Z, Millennials, & confronting challenging clients
- Skills to help your clients set boundaries, develop assertiveness, and manage toxic behaviors including gaslighting, narcissism, & emotional abuse
What You’ll Discover
Gain a specific skill set to help you navigate the impact of social media culture. Start by learning evidence-based strategies that help your kids detox from social media, then learn techniques that will move these clients into the responsibility of adulthood.
CBT, EFT & Other Approaches to Combat Social Media, Reality TV & Influencer Culture
Janine E. Oliver, PhD, MSW, LCSW, RYI200, CH, CCATP
In this first module, you’ll get training to understand the impact of social media, reality TV & influencer culture on your young client’s mental health — as well as evidence-based strategies to begin treatment.
The Gatekeeper: Critical Thinking (CT)
- Why is CT important in client sessions?
- Assessing your client’s ability to think critically
- Impact of reality TV (RTV) and social media (SM) on CT
- Impact of decreased CT in education
Overall Impact: Reality TV & Social Media Daily Usage
- Developing brain
- Teenage attention span
- Emotional centers of the brain
- Increased hypervigilance from constant primitive arousal
- Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Addiction
- Decreased Self-Esteem and Self-Image FOMO
- Biological reasons for insomnia
- Case Study: “Steve’s story, 18 y/o — excessive brain fog, vision issues”
Help Clients through the Weeds of Real vs. Virtual
- Discerning between Real and Virtual Reality
- Grounding lessons, CBT interventions
- Understand the importance of the perspective of clients
- Hold authority while diplomatically engaging clients
- Assert your professionalism without alienating clients
- Case Study: 21 y/o self-diagnosed BPD. She’d taken an online test and had symptoms of RTV personality
Prepackaged Diagnosis & Watering Down of Therapy
- Eliminate harmful inaccurate depictions of disorders
- How RTV and SM decrease intelligence and harm the legitimacy of therapy
- Distorted effects and narrowing perspectives
- Case Study: “Sandra’s story, 19 y/o — the client who came to the intake session with her own diagnosis because she read it online”
Durable Interventions to Increase Critical Thinking
- Psychoeducation — readiness to absorb interventions
- Examining — model interventions: CBT, EFT, relaxation techniques
- Assessing — help clients connect past behavior and new information
- Discernment — change thought pattern, create neuroplasticity
- Specific skill sets to target Gen Y and Z
- Relearn relationship with RTV, SM, and other mediums
- Anxiety and depression reduction for those with compromised CT
- Strategies for eating disorders, body dysmorphia, & more
Extended Adolescence: Clinical Strategies to Help Clients Meet the Demands of Adulthood
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP
Steve O’Brien, PsyD
In the second module, you’ll build upon your skills and understanding of the impact of social media by gaining specific training on how to move these youth into meaningful adulthood.
When 25 Looks More Like 18, Origins of Extended Adolescence
- Psychosocial implications of a “Check-listed Childhood”
- Plugged-in but disconnected: “The Loneliest Generation”
- Short-term gratification for the dopamine-dependent brain
- Gender, race, privilege, and other “identity influencers”
- Interplay of technology, society, and educational stressors
- “Virtual Reality IS Their Reality”
Reaching Adolescents and Their Families
- Tips for rapport building with Generation Z
- Mindfully managing parental involvement
- Build working alliances without alignments
- Cultivate cooperation and bypass resistance
Modifying the Clinical Interview — What’s Changed
- Model openness and flexibility
- Distinguish between pathology and generational differences
- Precursors to other disorders
- Navigate more complex identity exploration and confusion
- Differentiate oppositional behavior from healthy identity expression
Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling with
Anxiety — Social, OCD, Panic
- Promote “real” interaction in a virtual world
- Facilitate flexibility by reducing device-dependent behavior
- Neutralize perfectionistic worry to combat outcome certainty
- Reduce fears around healthy risk-taking
Depression
- Dealing with the fallout of social media and cyber harassment
- Reframe devaluing self-talk from negative online comparison
- Mood management and preventing isolation
- Reduce desensitized views of self-harming thoughts/behaviors
ADHD
- Boundaries to reduce impulsivity and consequences
- Device management to reduce distraction
- Self-structuring for time blindness
- “Appointment-Making” for better follow through
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neurodiversity
- Social coaching to reduce “passing as neurotypical” stress
- Brain-based, self-regulation strategies to manage overstimulation
- Foster flexible self-view around gender identity and sexuality
- Healthy routines to promote friendship, productivity, and fun
Cultivating a Growth Mindset for Life
- Teach tools for long-term resilience and self-advocacy
- Determine the need for other professional services
- Advance healthy development in future generations
- Research findings and limitations
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