Training Title:
Retired ~ Adolescence Part C

Clock Hours: 2.5

Objectives:
• Learn how mourning and grief in adolescence shapes the developing child. • Learn how treatment techniques to work with depressed adolescents, using cognitive therapy

Description:
Colin Pereira Webber, M.A., Clinical Social Worker "Parent Loss in Adolescence" describes the coping styles of children who have a lost a parent, the difference between adjustment and internal processing, the challenges faced by adolescents dealing with the death of a parent due to their stage of development, and the defense mechanisms most likely to be used by a bereaved adolescent to protect against narcissistic injury. David Wexler, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, discusses his "freeze frame" technique in working with adolescents, and how this strategy can be used to short circuit the behavioral pattern when the trigger for a behavioral pattern is encountered. He also addresses the comments of his critics.

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