Children's Mental Health Lecture Series
Substance Use Treatment for Youth and Adolescents
Dale Yagiela, MA, LMSW, CAADC
Date: June 20th, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, please arrive by 9:30 AM
Location: Wayne County Community College, 21000 Northline, Road, Taylor, MI
There is no cost to attend this training.
Handouts: As we continue our efforts to become more “green” we will be reducing printed handouts and moving towards distributing power points and resources electronically. For this and future Children's Mental Health Grand Rounds trainings, you will receive the handouts as an attachment in your final confirmation e-mails, which are sent several days prior to the training. Print copies of handouts WILL NOT be provided by DWMHA for this training.
Suggested Participants: Professionals who work in Community Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Juvenile Justice and Substance Abuse systems with children, adolescents and their families in Wayne County, including advocates, case managers, child mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and supports coordinators), direct care workers, family advocates, family members, licensed professional counselors, nurses, occupational therapists, parents and peer support specialists.
Professional staff within our Community Partners who interact with children, adolescents and their families, who are part of the Community Mental Health System, including Department of Human Services; Hospitals; Law Enforcement; School Personnel, including Detroit Public Schools; and other Social Service Organizations.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will address impact of drugs on brain function, with a focus on adolescent brain function and how to provide effective treatment interventions with youth with substance use disorders. Focus will be on cannabis and its impact on adolescent brain function and development. The session will also address the differences between conventional counseling and therapy and SUD treatment, and the skills effective SUD clinicians need to possess. Initial interviewing techniques, emotional regulatory approaches, and moving beyond talk therapy to address the consequences of use will also be covered. The session will also address the skill building elements that should be built into effective treanent to sustain recovery and to stem relapse.
OBJECTIVES
Foster an understanding of how SUD treatment is its own specialty, including a provision of the essential skills that differentiate SUD treatment from more conventional approaches.
An understanding of how drugs, in particular how THC, impacts adolescent brain development in the context of normal adolescent brain development and functioning
Development of interviewing and assessment skills to effectively "place" a youth on the SUD continuum, including an understanding of the developmental lags and their associated implications for treatment.
Skill building through the use of client centered assessments to develop capacity for recovery resilience and progression
AGENDA
1-30
SUD treatment as a specific discipline
Health practices for folks working with youth with SUDs
Essential clinical skills for staff
How drugs affect brain function
Adolescent Brain Development
Impact of drugs, especially cannabis, on adolescent brain development
30-60
Interviewing skills and disease progression
Developmental approach to SUD treatment
60-90
Agency, cause and effect, failure of CBT approaches to deal with SUD in kids
Emotional regulatory skills development
Remorse, not Shame: creating the balance to Euphoric recall through timelining
90-120
Behavioral Indicators
Behavioral Indicators applied to youth
Working with families: focus of parent recovery and co-dependency
The Marshak Triad
Registration is required. Walk-ins WILL NOT be permitted. Register to ensure your attendance.
By joining us at this event, attendees consent to Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority's Detroit Wayne Connect photographing, videotaping and using your image and likeness.
If you have individual requirements or need special services to participate in this training, please notify Katie Gorney, LMSWkgorney@iamtgc.net; 734-767-6006 Please make arrangements at least two weeks before the event date.
If you work WITHIN Wayne County please dismiss the payment portion of the registration process and hit "submit".
If you work OUTSIDE of Wayne County there is a nominal $15.00 registration fee to attend this training. Please pay prior to your arrival by entering your credit card information when the registration process asks for it. You may also bring a company check or money order for the full amount with you to the registration table at the event as well. All checks/money orders can be made out to ‘DWMHA’. Receipts will be available upon request.
Substitutions are permitted at any time. No Shows will be billed at the same rate. Cancellations must be received in writing no later than 7 business days prior to the training to asmith1@dwmha.com in order to obtain a full refund. If cancellation is received less than 7 days prior to the training, no refund will be issued.