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Stop Walking on Eggshells:
How To Do Counseling with Reactive and Reluctant Adolescents
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Janet Edgette, PsyD
 This practical and original workshop teaches how to
work with teenagers who may show little interest in sitting in a room and discussing their problems with an unfamiliar adult. Many of these clients come only because they are told to, and have many ways to
communicate their disinterest in therapy or even contempt for the process. Learn how to avoid the traps of becoming too careful or self-conscious with the rejecting teenage client, or, alternatively, of
trying harder than the client to make the therapy work.
Dr. Edgette shows how to orchestrate individual and family sessions that genuinely appeal to these kids and offer them dignified, face-saving ways out of their problems. The workshop stresses that holding
teenagers accountable for their actions and choices is just as important as providing compassion for their plights, and helps attendees manage impasses and confrontations while keeping the therapeutic
relationship intact. It also covers working collaboratively with parents, teachers, and other third parties who may have unrealistic expectations about how therapy can work. Numerous case
examples from Dr. Edgette’s practice, and live video clips, are used to illustrate how to intervene in ways that avert power struggles and going nowhere conversations that frustrate therapists and bore their young clients.
Workshop Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Avoid common first session mistakes that cause adolescent clients to lose confidence in their therapists ability to help
- Refrain from asking the three questions adolescents hate the most
- Identify five adolescent beliefs about change that interfere with the therapeutic process
- Create a therapeutic environment and relationship that genuinely interests adolescent clients in the process of changing
- Use candor and forthrightness in speaking with your adolescent clients without being hampered by self-consciousness or concerns about keeping the peace
- Discern critical individual and family issues quickly and intervene constructively within the first or second session
- Defuse and constructively manage complex, conflict-filled, or volatile situations that arise in session with adolescent clients and their families
- Hold the adolescent client accountable for his/her actions without fracturing the relationship
- Help your young clients find face-saving, dignified ways out of their dilemmas
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 am and the workshop hours are 8:30 am - 4:00 PM with an hour lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM and two fifteen minute breaks.
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Current Dates and Locations
Please see Calendar Page
Registration Information
$139 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$159 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $179, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone, fax or mail. Please call for availability.
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
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