No Teen Recovers Alone: Family Engagement Across the Continuum of Care
Thursday, July 30th at 12:00 pm PT
Youth mental health presentations are growing in complexity, and the families seeking help are carrying more — economically, relationally, and technologically — than any previous generation. At the same time, the support structures that once buffered family stress have significantly eroded, while adolescents navigate a social landscape shaped by chronic screen exposure, rising rates of anxiety, depression, and non-suicidal self-injury, and the compounding challenges of neurodivergence in an unforgiving academic environment. This training offers behavioral he...Read morealth professionals a grounded, clinically practical framework for understanding the full context families bring into the room — including the intergenerational transmission of parenting patterns, attachment styles, and communication norms that quietly shape the teen's presenting distress — and for translating that understanding into more effective, family-centered clinical practice.
A central focus of the training is equipping practitioners with a clear, working knowledge of the adolescent behavioral health continuum — from outpatient and intensive outpatient (IOP) through partial hospitalization (PHP), residential treatment, and hospital-based stabilization — with emphasis on ethical referral decision-making, realistic expectation-setting, and preserving the therapeutic relationship across levels of care. Participants will also develop concrete strategies for trauma-informed parent education that moves families away from shame-driven correction and compliance-focused parenting toward the relational connection that research consistently identifies as the foundation of adolescent recovery. The training draws on attachment theory, affect regulation research, and evidence-based family therapy models to offer tools clinicians can implement immediately in their own practices. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Identify and differentiate the major levels of care in the adolescent behavioral health continuum.
- Explain at least two (2) strategies for effective cross-provider collaboration as clients transition between levels of care.
- Compare the clinical distinction between compliance-focused and connection-focused parenting.
- Design and implement family engagement strategies that support treatment outcomes.
Target Audience
Learning Levels
- Intermediate
Thursday, July 30, 2026
02:00 PM PDT - 03:30 PM PDT
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About the speaker
Agenda
Strengthening Families in 2026 - Session Agenda- Introduction – Threatened Connections: Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Family Challenges
- Treatment Continuum: From Parenting to Community Support and Intervention
- The Therapist's Blueprint: Strengthening Families in 2026: Focused Family Work
CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour
CE Approvals
Joint Accreditation
American Psychological Association
New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
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