The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

Lisa's latest New York Times best seller is an urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Lisa’s second New York Times best seller is a celebrated guide to addressing the alarming increase in anxiety and stress in girls from elementary school through college.

Untangled

Untangled

Lisa’s award-winning New York Times best seller–now available in nineteen languages–is a sane, informed, and engaging guide for parents of teenage girls.

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Resources for Clinicians

If you are looking to build your clinical skills for working with tweens and teens, I have created a course just for you. In partnership with PESI, an industry-leading provider of continuing education seminars. “A Complete Guide to Teen Counseling” will be available at PESI.com for self-study in the coming weeks.

My course is grounded in over 30 years of clinical experience caring for young people and their families; it also draws on my work as a clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University. This course is appropriate for seasoned clinicians who are looking to refine their practice with tweens and teens, and also for clinicians who have never worked with adolescents but would like to do so.

Earn 6.25 CE Credits

The course grants 6.25 CE credits to a wide range of helping professions while providing tested guidance on how to work effectively with tweens and teens.

PESI Course: “A Complete Guide to Teen Counseling: Powerful Strategies to Create Transformative Change for Stressed, Anxious, and Depressed Youth”

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Included in the Course

Whether you are new to working with teens or have long worked with adolescents, this course will develop your understanding of:

  • Techniques for working with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, self-harm, and high-risk behaviors
  • Skills to support teens who don’t want help
  • Strategies to empower teens to embrace and respond adaptively to the full range of their emotions
  • When and how to involve parents and caregivers while upholding ethical boundaries
  • Interventions to support the key developmental tasks of adolescence, from contending with authority to planning for the future to taking ownership of looking after onself
Professions eligible for CE-credits from course include:
  • Mental Health Professionals, including
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Counselors
  • School Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • School Social Workers
  • Psychotherapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Nurses

The advice provided here by Dr. Damour and the resources shared by her AI-powered librarian, Rosalie, will not and do not constitute - or serve as a substitute for - professional psychological treatment, therapy, or other types of professional advice or intervention. If you have concerns about your child’s well-being, consult a physician or mental health professional.