If your school or organization needs training, a professional development workshop, or ongoing consultation we offer such services on a variety of topics including. . .

Training Topics:
  • Providing comprehensive and accurate adolescent substance abuse assessments
  • Intervening with substance abusing adolescents with research based, adolescent specific theory and treatment
  • Administering an evidence based adolescent substance abuse intervention within the school system
  • Managing the oppositional and angry adolescent
  • Working with the anxious and obsessive adolescent
  • Updating and running effective, collaborative Student Assistance Teams
  • Providing substance abuse groups within schools
  • Parenting the out-of-control adolescent

Presentation & Workshop Topics
  • Substance abuse and adolescents
  • Neurobiology  & neuromechanisms of substance abuse
  • What we now know about marijuana use and abuse
  • Classroom interventions
  • Adolescent mental health
  • Adolescent development (biological, emotional, cognitive)
  • Family based interventions
  • Talking with teens about substance abuse

Consultation Topics
  • Crisis intervention consultation
  • Drug and alcohol policy
  • Upgrading and leading Student Assistance Teams/Pre-referral Teams
  • Health curriculum consultation and planning
  • Consultation for school counselors, social workers, and psychologists

Examples of our school-based consultation services:

  • Providing training coupled with on-going consultation to manage explosive and oppositional students.   
  • Configuring school drug and alcohol policy with a meaningful, research based intervention.
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Some of our featured workshops include:

  • The Difference Between Adolescent and Adult Substance Use
  • Stress: The Conditioning That Leads To Compulsive Behaviors
  • Pot Unraveled
  • Choice: The Myth Behind Mental Health and Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction
  • Beyond Behavior Modification: Managing Angry Adolescents
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