Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood
- Speaker:
- Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 11 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, handouts in EN and FR
- Copyright:
-
Apr 11, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150308
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | Live Webinar
Description
The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.
Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later...resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.
You will learn strategies to:
- Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
- Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
- Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
- Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
- Instil motivation to advance real-world engagement
- Promote “connected independence” in young adults
This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.
Credit
Program Information
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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
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Earn up to 6.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.
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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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This self-study course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18 (5.56 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18 - French (5.56 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18 - Italian (5.56 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18 - German (5.6 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18 - Spanish (5.6 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP Related seminars and products
Dr. Sharon Saline, PLLC
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Deck, specializes in working with children, teens, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.
With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, educator and consultant, she guides people towards a greater understanding about neurodivergence and to live with more productivity and connection. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD ad neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners.
Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their monthly Solve My Problem live webinar sessions. She is an instructor in the department of psychiatry, University of Massachusetts-Baystate, T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Springfield, MA. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Attitude Magazine and more.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Smith College School for Social Work and Additudemag.com. . She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association.
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Objectives
- Evaluate relevant research on extended adolescence and emerging adulthood.
- Determine factors which promote normative vs complicated adolescent identity development.
- Evaluate the interplay of technological, societal, and educational stressors on the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
- Distinguish how DSM-5™ disorders develop in adolescents hinder the “adulting” process.
- Choose therapeutic strategies for reducing symptom severity in young adults and for reducing systemic conflict.
- Design clinical interventions for common disorders of the Gen Z population.
- Employ therapeutic techniques for cultivating a growth mindset and resilience in young adults.
Outline
When 25 Looks More Like 18, Origins of Extended Adolescence- Psychosocial implications of a “Check-listed Childhood”
- Plugged-in but disconnected: “The Loneliest Generation”
- Short-term gratification for the dopamine dependent brain
- Gender, race, privilege and other “identity influencers”
- Interplay of technology, society and educational stressors
- “Virtual Reality IS Their Reality”
- Tips for rapport building with Generation Z
- Mindfully managing parental involvement
- Build working alliances without alignments
- Cultivate cooperation and bypass resistance
- Model openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
- Distinguish between pathology and generational differences
- Precursors to other disorders – are you seeing these traits clearly
- Navigate more complex Identity exploration and confusion
- Differentiate oppositional behaviour from healthy identity expression
Anxiety - Social, OCD, Panic
- Promote “real” interaction in a virtual world
- Facilitate flexibility by reducing device dependent behaviour
- Neutralise perfectionistic worry to combat outcome certainty
- Reduce fears around healthy risk taking
- Dealing with fallout of social media and cyber harassment
- Reframe devaluing self-talk from negative online comparison
- Mood-management and preventing isolation
- Reduce desensitised views of self-harming thoughts/behaviours
- Social media boundaries to reduce impulsivity and negative consequences
- Device management to reduce distraction
- Self-structuring for time blindness
- “Appointment-Making” for better follow through
- Social coaching to reduce “passing as neurotypical” stress
- Brain-based, self-regulation strategies to manage overstimulation
- Foster flexible self-view around gender identity and sexuality
- Healthy routines to promote friendship, productivity and fun
- Teach tools for long-term resilience and self-advocacy
- Determine need for other professional services
- Advance healthy development in future generations
- Research findings and limitations
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- School Psychologists
- Physicians
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Educators
- Addiction Counsellors
This workshop is intended for professionals working with clients 15-25.
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