Brookhaven Seminar Series: Successfully Engaging Adolescents In Treatment presented by Scott M. Aycock, MS, LMFT

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Topic: Successfully Engaging Adolescents In Treatment

Presenter: Scott M. Aycock, MS, LMFT

Date: Oct. 3rd, 2007

Synopsis:

In his presentation, Scott Aycock relays his 29 years of experience in working with adolescents discussing what works when engaging them and what does not work. Scott clarified the therapeutic relationship, the use of humor, boundaries, family involvement, and power and control in a therapeutic environment. Scott also reviewed some of the pitfalls of trying to walk the delicate balance between a medical model approach and solution-focused approach to treatment.
Literature using brain scanning on adolescents explaining the about differences between the adolescent brain and the adult brain as well as differences between genders was expounded upon

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Objectives:
1. Participants come away with a better understanding of what is success when treating, patients who are in a short-term hospital setting.
2. Participants will review therapeutic strategies involving teamwork, family involvement, boundaries, structure and power and control.
3. Participants will understand some differences between treatment in acute short- term care and residential care.
4. Participants will self-assess themselves on the topic to determine their own understanding of their role and their performance.
5. Participants will know ways to successfully engage adolescents in treatment, have a better understanding of solution-focused language and a realistic strategy for acute care and residential treatment.

Click below to view seminar handouts:

Successfully Engaging Adolescents In Treatment (pdf - 433KB)

Speaker Profile

Scott M. Aycock, MS, LMFT

Scott Aycock is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 29 years of experience working adolescents and their families.
Scott worked 12 years at Lakeside Home working with wards of the court starting as a resident counselor, then child-care supervisor and finally an aftercare counselor doing treatment groups and multiple family therapy groups.
While at Lakeside Scott completed his masters in Family Relations and Child Development and went to work at St. John Medical Center as a Sr. Family Therapist on the Adolescent Acute Care Unit. During this time Scott received his LMFT licensing. He spent 8 years at St. John and began doing part-time private practice in 1996 and in 1998 began a full-time practice.

Presently, Scott teaches parenting, conducts men's groups, and couples groups. He is a certified PREP instructor and teaches PREP training workshops through OMI. He is a board member for Critical Response, a non-profit organization that provides counseling for at risk youth and families that cannot afford services.
Lastly, but certainly not least, he is a husband of 29 years, a father of two extraordinary sons, a singer/songwriter and host/producer of Folk Salad a roots music radio show on KWGS, NPR.

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