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Intensive Outpatient for 12-18 year-olds in Olathe & Lawrence
3 hour Training Slide Deck
3 hour Training Slide Deck
To steal an analogy from Chris Rice, each teen is like “Smelling the Color Nine. Nine’s not a color and even if it were, you can’t smell a color. My point exactly.” There is an art to therapy with teens as they often struggle with counseling because of stigma around mental health, fear of judgment, difficulty expressing emotions, lack of understanding about the process, resistance to authority, concerns about privacy, and the developmental stage of trying to establish their own identity.
Utilizing ACT for Adolescents (DNA-V) and the BOLD Process this workshop will overview some of the reasons teens need therapy and provide practical techniques from Motivational Interviewing (MI) to partner through the resistance. MI is a non-judgmental and supportive approach that empowers struggling teenagers to take control of their lives and make positive changes.
The BOLD Process and MI can help struggling teenagers:
Identify their strengths and resources
Develop realistic goals
Increase their motivation to change
Develop coping skills
Improve their relationships with others
This workshop is the culmination of a four month book club over Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults (2nd Edition) and a monthly practice group with other professionals and will highlight as much of the learning from those as possible. Motivational Interviewing techniques will be utilized to engage the participants along with experiential learning, lecture and discussion. Participants will be provided practical tools that have been found to be effective.
Objectives
Participants will be able to frame adolescent emotional struggle using DNA-V (ACT for Adolescents)
Participants will understand the BOLD Process for change and have some practical tools to implement with the teens they work with.
Participants will learn some specific MI strategies applicable to overcoming adolescent resistance to therapy.
MI Overview & Highlights of the 4 Elements
MI Overview & Highlights of the 4 Elements
MI-pyramid Spirit.pdfSpirit
MI-pyramid Core Skills.pdfCore Skills
Change Talk
Processes
motivational-interviewing-the-basics-oars.pdfMI: OARS
12 Roadblocks to Accurate Empathy.pdf12 Roadblocks to Accurate Empathy
Tools for helping clarify and move toward values
Tools for helping clarify and move toward values
Values Sorting Exercise.pdfValues Sorting Tool
Values Sorting Tool
Strengths Tool.pdfStrengths Finding Tool
Strengths Finding Tool
Values Strengthening Questions Handout.pdfValues Strengthening Questions
Values Strengthening Questions
BOLD Living Assessement Tool.pdfBOLD Living Assessment Tool
BOLD Living Assessment Tool
Is professional help needed? Would the Two Tents IOP be beneficial?
Sparks of Wonder Tools
Sparks of Wonder Tools
Sparks of Wonder Tool.pdfSparks of Wonder Tool
Sparks of Wonder Tool
A tool for helping young people explore Sparks (activities and areas in which research has shown other young people felt most alive, joyful and inspired.)
Link to Search Institute a leader in positive youth development
Creating a Healthy Sense of Wonder.pdfCreating a Healthy Sense of Wonder
Creating a Healthy Sense of Wonder
Wonder involves important elements of surprise and curiosity, both of which are forms of interest.
Ideas on how to Create Wonder at different ages and stages of development.
Awe & Wonder Articles for Continued Learning
Awe & Wonder Articles for Continued Learning
GGSC-JTF_White_Paper-Awe_FINAL.pdfThe Science of Awe Written by Summer Allen, Ph.D. A white paper prepared for the John Templeton Foundation by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley September 2018
Eight Reasons Why Awe Makes Your Life Better.pdfEight Reasons Why Awe Makes Your Life Better BY SUMMER ALLEN Research suggests that awe can make you happier, healthier, more humble, and more connected to the people around you.
Four Awe-Inspiring Activities _ Greater Good.pdfFour Awe-Inspiring Activities BY JULIANA BREINES | MARCH 8, 2016 Research-based practices for cultivating awe from the GGSC website Greater Good in Action.
Six Surprising Benefits of Curiosity.pdfSix Surprising Benefits of Curiosity BY EMILY CAMPBELL For children and adults alike, curiosity has been linked with psychological, emotional, social, and even health benefits.
Speaker Bio
Speaker Bio
I’m a GenX, postmodern, question everything person who happens to be blessed with parents who took in orphans, prayed for food, answered their callings and sacrificed so their children knew they were loved. That mix created an irreverent soul that cares deeply for children, families and especially adolescents.
I have close to thirty years of experience working with and for children, youth and families catalyzing change at the individual, family, organizational and systems levels. With a Masters in clinical psychology, I have provided crisis management, intensive in-home therapy and wrap-around services for children with emotional and behavioral challenges. I have 35+ years’ working or volunteering with youth and young adults through youth ministry and community programs. In partnership with North Kansas City Hospital co-created the Quarky app to connect Kansas City 14-24-year-olds to articles, events and resources focused on mental health and well-being. Currently, I developed and direct the Two Tents Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adolescents struggling with anxiety/depression. We are building strong partnerships with our area school districts and I am an invited speaker on Anxiety, Depression, Grit, SEL and Parenting. These opportunities have made me innovative, practical and taught me to think about enhancing the whole safety net surrounding at-risk children, youth and families.
I have a wonderful wife, Kori, who founded and runs the Renew Counseling Center in Olathe, a 14-year-old, Nora, twin boys (Grayson (9) and Jude who went to heaven way too early) and we adopted two foster siblings Chandler (9) and Milla (7).
I want to be a resource to the families that are currently in or have completed our program and don't take on individual clients.
Jason is willing to Present, Consult, Train or just be a Resource for Parents, Schools, Churches and Teens.
Jason is willing to Present, Consult, Train or just be a Resource for Parents, Schools, Churches and Teens.
Mercy & Truth Counseling
Mercy & Truth Counseling
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