Brainstorm: A Clinician's Guide to the Changing and Challenging Adolescent Brain

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Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

Dr. Siegel's psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel's books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include:The Power of Showing Up also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel is the clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, the medical director of Lifespan Learning Institute, the executive director of Center for Human Development and Mindsight Institute, and the founding editor of Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Daniel Siegel receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Siegel serves on the advisory board for Gloo and Convergence in Washington, D.C.

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Objectives

1. Explore how brain development affects teenage behavior and relationships, and how this informs the clinician’s choice for treatment interventions.
2. Identify the difference between impulsivity and hyper- rational thinking as it relates to clinical practice.
3. List the 2 major components of the remodeling process in the teenage brain, and how this informs the clinician’s choice for treatment interventions.
4. Name 3 outcomes of the changes in dopamine processing in the adolescent brain, and how this informs the clinician’s choice for treatment interventions.
5. Describe 3 neurological processes that cause adolescent increased risk , and how this informs the clinician’s choice for treatment interventions.
6. Compare adolescent risk-taking with and without the presence of peers, and the clinical implications.

Outline

• Cultural myths
• Modern scientific views

• Benefits and challenges of this important period of life
• How the essential elements of adolescence are the core of living a vital adult life as well
• The myths vs. modern scientific views
• Risk-taking, pushing-away, and sexual behavior of adolescence
• Adolescence is now longer than ever before, creating unique stressors

• The developmental neurobiology of the adolescent period
• Pruning and myelination leads to the remodeling of the brain into the mid-twenties
• Risk-taking behaviors and the origin of hyper-rational” thinking overemphasizing the pros of a choice over the possible cons
• Develop gist thinking” that relies on intuition
• Exercises that stimulate the integrative growth of the brain

• Attachment toward parents changes during adolescence
  • Push toward peer connections
• Social engagement becomes a central part of teen life
• Early life attachment continues to influence the adolescent’s relationships and the emerging self
• Move non-secure attachment models toward security
• Mindsight skill practices”:
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Relationships

• Emergence of a sexual identity and sexual relationships
• Romance and first love
• Drug use and abuse
• The return home of an adolescent who has already left for a period of time
• Other issues
• The most common period for the onset of serious psychiatric problems:
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Disturbances in body image and identity
• Role of our cultural approach to the essence of adolescence
• Other issues
  • Social media
  • Nutrition
  • Divorce
  • Education

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