The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this training in partnership with WAFCA to behaviorl health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and intensifies, clinicians and youth are confronted with social distancing and other infection control requirements that generally preclude in-person psychotherapy. In this workshop, the presenters outline the benefits and challenges of providing trauma therapy to adolescents over the internet, describe specific trauma-focused tools and interventions, discuss strategies and concerns regarding caretaker and family involvement, and make a series of concrete suggestions regarding best practices for teletherapy.
John Briere, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, and Center Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Read more about Dr. Briere.
Cheryl Lanktree, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice andAssistant Professor of Research Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and BehavioralSciences, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She hasbeen Project Director and Co-PI of the University of Southern California Adolescent Trauma Training Center (USC-ATTC), a Category II site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) since 2012. She is the developer of Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Children (ITCT-C) and co-developer of IntegrativeTreatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A). Read Dr. Landtree’s complete bio at www.cblanktree.com
Certificates of attendance will be issued for all who attend the full session.
