Stop Treating Teens Like Adults: The Ultimate Guide to Teen Therapy Standards | Teens: No Cap Ep.40
Teens Uncharted: the PodShow Notes
Working with teenagers isn't the same as working with children or adults. Because of their unique brain development, teenagers are their own distinct clinical subspecialty.
In Episode #40 of Teens: No Cap, licensed mental health counselor Charity Chaffee breaks down the critical standards of care required for working effectively with adolescents. If you want to offer better scaffolding and support to your teen clients and navigate family dynamics with confidence, these are the practices you need to implement.
What You'll Learn in This Episode: ✨Parent Involvement: Why treating a teen in a vacuum doesn't work and how to include regulated parents at regular intervals. ✨The Intake Process: The importance of holding completely separate intake sessions for teens and parents. ✨Customized Paperwork: Why teens need their own tailored intake packets and policies written in language they can understand. ✨Wraparound Support: How attending school meetings (like IEPs and 504s) gives you a greater sense of the landscape your clients face. ✨Clear Boundaries: Setting firm, written policies for texting, outside contact, and mandated reporting. ✨Tracking Progress: Using quarterly check-in forms to give teens a safe, alternative way to disclose difficult behaviors like self-harm.
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