Engaging Youth and Families in Behavioral Health Services

Title:  Engaging Youth and Families in Behavioral Health Services

Description:  This training will center on Mary McKay’s research around engaging youth and family involvement in behavioral health services.  We will examine the common elements of treatment engagement identified in research literature, differentiating pragmatic challenges and perceptual barriers.  We will practice key strategies for improving active caregiver participation in their child’s mental health services.

Objectives: 

1. Participants will examine the critical elements of the engagement process.
2. Participants will practice creative problem-solving around concrete obstacles to treatment participation.
3. Participants will improve their knowledge of the impact of perceptual barriers to treatment engagement
4. Participants will identify strategies for improving successful and sustained engagement with families.

Goals:

To improve clinician understanding of and practices around engaging youth and families in the therapy process.

1. For motr To raise awareness of challenges to treatment engagement related to historical trauma, previous experiences when seeking help, and lack of support from family and/or friends.
2. To change clinical practice to better address perceptual boundaries impacting youth and family completion of evidence-based treatment models.

For more information or to register

Lisa Staples

(504) 568-5734

lstapl@lsuhsc.edu

2020 Gravier St., 3^rd Floor,

New Orleans, LA 70112

Agenda:

9am – 9:30am                         Current Research Findings Around Engagement

9:30am – 10:30am                  Common Concrete Barriers

10:30am – 10:45am                BREAK

10:45am – 12pm                    The Power of Partnering & Predicting

12pm – 1pm                           LUNCH

1pm – 2:15pm                        Perceptual Barriers to Treatment Engagement

2:15pm – 2:30pm                   BREAK

2:30pm – 4pm                        Strategies for Getting and Maintaining Family Engagement

4pm – 4:30pm                        Q & A, evaluations

Approved for 7.5 CE clock hours in Diagnosis; no NBCC credit  available for this  program