Working with Adolescents

Effective adolescent therapy is grounded in a strong therapeutic alliance built on authenticity, respect, and transparency. Learn techniques that attend closely to risk factors common in this population, as well as working within systems to help these individuals develop resilience, agency, and a coherent sense of self as they move toward adulthood.

Watch child expert Sam Steen quickly and effectively engage 12-year old Kennedie by sensitively adapting core client-centered methods to her developmental level. Steen masterfully draws on this pre-teen’s strengths and resources to help her address sensitive issues related to her sexual and racial identities. Steen’s relaxed and natural interactional style will help you become more proactive, intentional, and brave when working with these clients. The video is 2.5 hours in length, and you can earn up to 1.5 CEs.

Learn from the field's leading voices

Watch experts like Sam Steen, Robert Jason Grant, Ali Hall, Cathy Cole, Sebastian Kaplan, and others demonstrate their approaches and share clinical wisdom on working with adolescent clients.

See real therapy in action

Featuring clinical demonstrations and sessions with real adolescent clients, you’ll see how seasoned practitioners work with explorations of race and sexuality, career exploration, defiance, suicide prevention, depression, substance use, managing weight, anorexia, and more.

Explore a spectrum of approaches

Get resources for working with adolescent clients using various approaches including play therapy, motivational interviewing, groups, solution-focused techniques, person-centered, family systems, evidence-based treatment, narradrama, Adlerian therapy, Gestalt therapy, reality therapy, family therapy, and more.

Get CE that does more than just satisfy requirements

Satisfy your curiosity, inspire your clinical practice, shape your therapeutic presence, foster your professional growth—discover continuing education that does more than just satisfy license requirements.

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