About this live event
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 health 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.
