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Raising Healthy Teens: Overcoming the Mental Health Challenges of the Transition to Adulthood

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA 94903

Joanie Gillispie, PhD, Faculty, Berkeley City College, Dominican University, and UC Berkeley Extension

Crossing the Street in Cyberspace: How Families Can Be Safe in the Digital Culture - Essential information about Teenage Cyber Culture and Digital Technology, including Cyberspace Addiction, Gambling, and Pornography.

Michael A. Freeman, MD, author, psychiatrist and clinical psychologist, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF School of Medicine.

First Break in Adolescence: How to Anticipate the Onset and Contain the Impact of Serious Mental Illness - Familiarizes non- MD mental health clinicians about emerging first break detection and management strategies, illustrating how therapists can provide necessary clinical services and coordinate with psychiatrists in a collaborative care team.

Michael R. Edelstein, PhD, author of the award winning Three Minute Therapy, a self-help book for overcoming common emotional and behavioral problems, specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and addictions.

A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Approach To Addiction: Dr. Edelstein will discuss the theory and practice of the REBT approach to addiction, which focuses on its cognitive-behavioral aspects. REBT teaches clients how to identify their addictive thinking and make profound changes in their beliefs, behaviors, and emotions.

Marin Teen Mental Health Board Panel - A one-hour session in which a student panel will talk about their experiences and solutions on the subject of Internet Safety and Risk, and the personal challenges they face as teens with mental health disorders.

Cost: $75 or $95 if received after October 23, 2009
5 CEUs approved by the MCEPAA for Psychologists. MCEP# COM040-74

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CONFERENCE SPONSORS

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  • Marin Silvio H. Cheda Charity Trust/San Rafael Elks Lodge #1108
  • Visions Adolescent Treatment Center
  • Ortho-McNeil-Janssen
  • Marin Community Mental Health Services
  • MHSA Family Education Fund
  • Huckleberry Teen Health Program
  • Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center

PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  • CHADD of Marin, Huckleberry Youth Programs, Marin CAMFT, Marin Community Mental Health Service, Marin County Of?ce of Education, Marin Interfaith Council, Matrix Parent Network & Resource Center, Mental Health Board , NAMI Marin, and the Parents Education Network (PEN).

  • Raising Healthy Teens: Overcoming the Mental Health Challenges of the Transition to Adulthood is presented by CIP on behalf of the Marin Mental Health Alliance: Community Institute for Psychotherapy, Catholic Charities CYO, Family Service Agency of Marin, and Jewish Family and Children's Services. All proceeds from conference related sponsorships and CEU fees will go to support the Marin Alliance for Psychiatric Services (MAPS), a collaborative program providing sliding scale medication evaluation and follow-up to low- and moderate-income uninsured adults

Click here to watch a video clip from our 2007 Community Conference, New Treatments, New Hope: Psychopharmacology Update.

 


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