Certified Youth Mental Health Specialist Course: Interventions for Anxiety, Depression, Toxic Stress, Self-Harm, & More

With the pandemic, social unrest, and school shootings, we've felt a spike in fear, anxiety, and depression of epic proportions...

It's hard to measure the full impact the last few years have had on today's children and families!

This entire generation of kids is going to need to learn the skills to recover, grow and thrive in today's world.

Your young clients need dedicated support now more than ever, and the mobilization of thought leaders starts here!

Join us for this premier online course where we've gathered experts who—just like you—are working on the front lines — Pat Ogden, Mona Delahooke, Steve O'Brien, Wendy Durante, Kent Butler, Alesia Alexander, and more!

You'll leave with proven treatment approaches for pandemic-fueled anxiety, depression, grief, toxic stress, self-harm and so much more.

• Step 1: Watch this online course.
• Step 2: Complete all the course materials and instantly print your certificate of completion.
• Step 3: Submit your certificate of completion and professional license to Evergreen Certifications.

   

• Clinical expertise: Show clients and colleagues your practice is based on leading-edge research in this complex area of mental health.
• Client Trust: Certification shows the families you work with that you're dedicated to providing the best care possible. It reveals your professional ability to take on challenging clients and succeed!
• Documentation of knowledge: Certification is both a professional and personal accomplishment. It's an unbiased barometer of your training and dedication to your practice.
• Improved insurance reimbursement: Receive more favourable consideration from insurance companies and managed care panels.
• Professional recognition: Set yourself apart from the thousands of clinicians relying on outdated methods to treat their clients. Increase your opportunities for career advancement and client referrals.

  Post-traumatic stress, disordered eating, insomnia, aggression, and more are being fueled by today's headlines!

While some kids will have temporary symptoms, others will develop chronic psychiatric disorders — and even short-term exposure can cause profound effects on academic, social, and emotional growth.

As a therapist, the magnitude of maintaining or keeping up with the latest strategies can be difficult and time-consuming.

But there is reason to be optimistic!

The experts in this course will give you insights into what tools and strategies are needed to work with your young clients today.

You'll leave more confident to:

1. Regulate levels of post-traumatic stress, insomnia, aggression, and isolation
2. Reduce debilitating anxiety that's fueling kids today, leaving them fearful & avoidant
3. Help kids regulate intense emotions and mitigate suicidal ideation
4. Create grief-aware and grief-friendly communities and environments for kids & teens
5. Help at-risk youth living in poverty develop effective emotional regulation skills in academic, social, and community settings
6. And more!

In the Certified Youth Mental Health Specialist Course, you'll hear from a host of experts, including keynote, Mona Delahooke, PhD, international presenter, and award-winning author with 30+ years of caring for children and their families, who will show you how to regulate levels of stress, burnout, and exhaustion and learn ways to calibrate your “body budget.

Along with Mona Delahooke, leaders across the field will share their work...

You'll leave with proven treatment approaches for pandemic-fueled anxiety, depression, grief, toxic stress, self-harm and so much more.

1. Steve O'Brien shares treatment strategies for connecting with anxious kids immersed in virtual reality, and rapport-building tips for fostering connection and developing interventions designed to promote engagement rather than avoidance in anxiety-ridden children.
2. Pat Ogden and Bonnie Goldstein give us new mindfulness-based and somatic interventions to enhance self-regulation skills and develop resilience in the face of the intense emotions that fuel suicidality. Case studies will illustrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions.
3. Brittany Prioleau and Claire Cronin show how cultural implications influence our thoughts concerning where we draw the line between discipline and abuse. They will present ways for you to engage families in exploring positive disciplinary practices, utilizing evidence-based approaches.
4. Dana Wyss has witnessed the acts and aftereffects of children and adolescents who mutilate their bodies to express overwhelming emotions. Dana offers an inspiring exploration of the impact self-injury has on individuals, their families, and service providers.
5. Alesia Alexander shares a fun, (yes, fun!) and experiential session offering a new lens to view work with loss and young people, and their unique walk and perspective on grief.
6. And so many more!