Free Live Webinar
“3 Ways to Use Mindfulness with Substance Using Adolescents and Young Adults”
(10.27.2020 @ 11AM PST)
Free Live Webinar:
(10.27.20 @ 11AM PST)
3 Ways to Use Mindfulness with Substance Using Adolescents and Young Adults
Learn why and how mindfulness can be an effective intervention in working with substance using adolescents and young adults today. Implement what learn from this FREE, live webinar immediately! This 1.5-hour live webinar is completely free, live, and takes place on the Zoom Webinar platform. A replay recording will be sent out to all attendees!
Course Information
- Scroll down and click on “register”
- You will then be taken to a Zoom registration page where you will enter your name and email
- You will receive an email confirmation and receive updates related to the webinar
Using mindfulness with substance using adolescents and young adults requires an authentic and relatable approach. This is a 1.5 hour/credit course that will define and frame mindfulness in a way that is attentive to lived experience, cover why and how mindfulness as an intervention can be effective for working with adolescents and young adults struggling with substance use, and teach you pragmatic and actionable techniques that you can begin using in your work right away. This course is for educators, therapists, counselors, mentors, teachers, and any other youth worker looking to share mindfulness in an innovative way that youth will be receptive to.
- DEFINE: Mindfulness in a concrete, applicable way
- REVIEW: A conceptual framework for mindfulness as an intervention for substance-use disorders
- PRESENT: Pragmatic steps to teach formal mindfulness meditation and necessary adaptations for youth and addition-impacted population
American Psychological Association (APA)
1.5 continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists in the United States. The Center for Adolescent Studies is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor CE for psychologists. The Center for Adolescent Studies maintains responsibility for all programs and its content. The State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE from APA sponsors for LMFTs, LEPs, LPCs, and LCSWs. Learn more here. Please note: If you are a non-psychologist mental health professional from a state outside of California, check with your licensing committee as many accept CE from APA approved sponsors.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
The Center for Adolescent Studies Inc. (1640) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. The Center for Adolescent Studies Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. ACE Approval Period: (6/4/2019 – 6/4/2022). Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 1.5 continuing education clock hours.
Teachers seeking professional development (PD) please get this course approved by your school board.
If you have a specific request, training accommodation, or grievance you need to submit, please visit our requests page and all efforts will be made to address your needs.
Your Instructor
Sam Himelstein, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist (PSY25229) based in Oakland, CA. He has worked in juvenile halls, chemical dependency settings, schools, outpatient hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, in community settings, and in private practice with teens and their families. He is passionate about training professionals from multiple disciplines in creating authentic, healing relationships with adolescents that contribute to positive outcomes. A formerly incarcerated youth himself, Dr. Himelstein was privileged to change his life from a path of drugs, violence, crime, and self-destruction to that of healing and transformation. His mission is to help young people become aware of the power of self-awareness and transformation, and train professionals with similar interests. Learn more about his philosophy and approach in his books: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents (Routledge, 2013), Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum (Routledge, 2015), and Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Clinicians (Norton, 2019).
If you have a specific request, training accommodation, or grievance you need to submit, please visit our requests page and all efforts will be made to address your needs.