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About the Presenter
Michael Hollander, Ph.D., is an Instructor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and he serves on the teaching faculty in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hollander is Director of Training for McLean Hospital’s continuum of adolescent DBT services; he is the Director of their DBT Day Program and senior consultant for their Adolescent Acute Residential and Partial Program. He has also served as Director of Adolescent Services at Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, MA and as a Psychological Consultant to the Germaine Lawrence School in Arlington, MA.
Dr. Hollander is a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of adolescents and their families and he has developed an expertise in individual and group therapies, especially in the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with teenagers. The author of Helping Teens Who Cut: Understanding and Ending Self-Injury, he has a strong interest in treating adolescents who engage in self-injurious behavior. Dr. Hollander is a Trainer for Behavioral Tech in Seattle, WA and travels the country teaching DBT to clinicians. A gifted teacher, Dr. Hollander is a recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from the Mass General/McLean Hospital Child Psychiatry Residency Program.
Symposium Description
Clinicians who work with multi-problem adolescents are frequently challenged by the complex clinical presentations of adolescents who are often difficult to engage and keep in treatment. This symposium is designed for professionals who have a working knowledge of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and who work with adolescents and families in a wide range of treatment contexts. Participants will learn how to apply the theory, principles, functions and modes of comprehensive DBT to working with high-action adolescents and their families.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Monday
Pre-treatment and commitment stage
Strategies of engaging adolescents
Orienting adolescents and parents to DBT treatment
Helping adolescents and their parents understand the bio-social theory
Getting commitment from adolescents and their parents
Tuesday
Functions of Targets: Managing disagreements about target behaviors, special problems in targeting adolescent behaviors
Individual therapy: Keeping adolescents and the therapist engaged, organizing the session, issues around consultation to the patient vs. environmental interventions, diary cards, chain analysis
Wednesday
Issues of confidentiality
Privacy vs. secrecy
What to do when parents are unwittingly reinforcing dysfunctional behavior
What to do when adolescents are reinforcing dysfunctional behavior
What is DBT family therapy
Essential skills for parental survival
Thursday
Review of the skills
Structuring adolescent skills groups
Skills group targets
Role of the leader and co-leader
The multifamily skills group, parent skills group
Skills coaching: Getting teens to access coaching, what does coaching look like, skills coaching for parents
Friday
Special problems: Managing suicidal behavior, understanding NSSI, eating disorders and substance use
Developing a conceptual framework for adapting DBT into diverse clinical settings and schools |
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