Sharon Saline – Extended Adolescence – When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood – PESI

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Speaker: Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP
Media Type: In-Person Seminar  

Description
The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.

Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later…resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.

Join award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.

You will learn strategies to:

• Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
• Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
• Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
• Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
• Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
• Promote “connected independence” in young adults

This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.

Speaker
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSPRelated seminars and products 

Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Card Deck, specializes in working with neurodiverse children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, high-functioning autism, twice exceptionality and mental health issues. With decades of experience as a clinician, educator and consultant, she translates complex information into accessible language and concepts that everybody can understand and apply in their lives. Her workshops offer practical, insightful strategies to improve managing workers, promote effective communication and increase productivity. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, motivation and neurodiversity. Dr. Saline is a regular contributor to ADDitudemag.com and Psychology Today.com and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work, and has been a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV. Her writing has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Additude Magazine, Psych Central and Inquirer.com.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Smith College School for Social Work. She is the founder and co-facilitator of Workshops at Northampton Area Pediatrics and is a consultant with the Greenwood School. Dr. Saline receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association.

Objectives

1. Evaluate relevant research on extended adolescence and emerging adulthood.
2. Determine factors which promote normative vs complicated adolescent identity development.
3. Evaluate the interplay of technological, societal, and educational stressors on the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
4. Distinguish how DSM-5™ disorders develop in adolescents hinder the “adulting” process.
5. Choose therapeutic strategies for reducing symptom severity in young adults and for reducing systemic conflict.
6. Design clinical interventions for common disorders of the Gen Z population.
7. Employ therapeutic techniques for cultivating a growth mindset and resilience in young adults.

Outline

• 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 with Gen Z culture
  Distinguish between pathology and generational differences
  Precursors to other disorders – are you seeing these traits clearly
  Navigate more complex Identity exploration and confusion
  Differentiate oppositional behavior from healthy identity expression
• Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling with:
  Anxiety – Social, OCD, PanicPromote “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 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
  Social media boundaries to reduce impulsivity and negative consequences
  Device management to reduce distraction
  Self-structuring for time blindness
  “Appointment-Making” for better follow through
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neurodiversity
  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 need for other professional services
  Advance healthy development in future generations
  Research findings and limitations

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• School Psychologists
• Physicians
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Educators
• Addiction Counselor

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