Phoenix House Texas Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Session Description: This presentation is both educational and instructional. The audience will learn the basics of adolescent neurobiology as it relates to substance use and other behavioral challenges. Research on the importance of the social context of residential treatment to improving interventions efficacy will be summarized and reviewed. Ethics of helping professions that support the investigation and attendance to the social environment of treatment will be identified and explained. The audience will be provided with evaluation and assessment tools to monitor the social health of their adolescent clients as well as strategies to improve the social context of adolescent treatment.
This session has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Participants will have a foundational understanding of how the social environment of treatment affects adolescent intervention outcomes.
Participants will know how assessing and attending to the social environment aligns with the ethics of helping professions (i.e., medical and social work).
Participants will be familiar with strategies to improve the social health of their treatment organization.
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