Objectives: • Learn an alternative view of psychopathology in adolescence.
• Learn how adolescent development in girls presents different challenges than in boys.
Description: H. Spencer Bloch, MD, Psychiatry. explains his model of conceptualizing acting out behaviors in adolescence, developmental difficulties, predictors of an adolescent's ability to use peer relationships to facilitate emancipation, and the unique challenges faced by adolescents today. Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D., Psychology, "Early Adolescence in Girls" discusses differences in male and female development in early adolescence, how the interaction of social learning and biology produces salient differences, why adolescent girls experience pressure from parents, and what kinds of pressure, and comments on the gender of the therapist treating and adolescent female.
Approval Bodies
Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
CAADE - California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators
California Association of DUI Treatment Programs
California Board of Registered Nursing
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
Connecticut Certification Board, Inc.
Florida Board of Nursing
Florida Board of Psychology
Florida Dept. of Health (Board of Social Work, Marriage & Family, Mental Health Counseling)
NAADAC, National Association for Addiction Professionals
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