Adolescent Group Psychotherapy

This training is only for licensed mental health professionals.

Live, synchronous, online training

3 Category 1 CEUs*

Adolescents are developmentally driven to connect with and respond to their peers, making group therapy a useful and cost-effective intervention for many young people. Experienced group leader Britt Rathbone will orient you to the benefits of group therapy for teens and young adults, and then walk you through the importance of assessment and how to identify possible candidates for a group, how to obtain buy-in from young people, skills for orientation, and then how to facilitate an ongoing therapy group of teens.

1. Recognize the benefits that group provides that are unavailable in individual therapy

2. Identify candidates for group therapy

3. Develop skill for orienting adolescents to group therapy

4. Use therapeutic skill to keep group members focused on their therapy goals

5. Develop a repertoire of skills to process group interactions effectively

6. Learn specific interventions for common challenges in an adolescent group

Britt H. Rathbone is an expert in adolescent mental health and is committed to providing evidence-based treatments including CBT, DBT, Unified Protocol, ACT, Behavioral Activation, Prolonged Exposure, and others. He is the founder and director of Capital Youth Services | Rathbone & Associates, a psychotherapy practice focusing on mental health issues and conditions of adolescence.

Mr. Rathbone earned his social work degree from Columbia University in New York and has been a highly rated instructor in the MSW programs at the National Catholic University School of Social Service and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. He has decades of experience in adolescent mental health and psychotherapy, and he holds the most advanced certifications available through his professional societies. His expertise has been recognized by being consistently named a top therapist for teenagers by Washingtonian magazine. He was the first clinician in Maryland, DC and Virginia to have passed the rigorous standards established by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification and to be recognized as a DBT Certified DBT Clinician. He is a frequent and highly rated presenter at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium.

Mr. Rathbone is the coauthor of the following:

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents

• What Works with Teens: An Evidence-Based, Practical Guide for Working Effectively with Adolescents

• Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions,

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group for Adolescents, (chapter) in Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner's Reference

Rathbone & Associates| Capital Youth Services is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for the programs and their content. These trainings qualify for Category I continuing education units. Please contact your state board for verification of reciprocity with other states and professions. In order to receive a certificate, registrants must attend the entire session.

Rathbone & Associates | Capital Youth Services is a sponsor of continuing education credits for psychologists in Maryland under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Rathbone & Associates maintains responsibility for the program content.

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