Session 5: When No One Sees It: Helping Adolescents with Mild TBI/Concussion Navigate Real Life

(1.5 CEs Idaho Suicide Awareness and Prevention)

Learn how to work with this underdiagnosed and overlooked population in our series on mTBI/Concussion. Shauna Smith, MS, CCC-SLP and Brian Smith, LCPC will present tangible skills to improve your assessment and treatment of all your clients, especially the ones "hidden in plain sight". 

Course Objectives: 

1. Learn how to foster effective awareness, understanding, and support with parents/family.

2. Learn how to interface with school faculty (e.g. school nurse, school counselor, teachers, coaches) in order to support client.

3. Identify components of suicide assessment with the mild TBI adolescent population.

4. Learn SLP interventions specific to adolescents and how to support them.

5. Learn counseling interventions specific to adolescents.

6. Learn how to support client and involved parent if separated parent is resistant to diagnosis, treatment, or following recommendations/accommodations. 

Go to www.idahocounseling.org/webinar-series for additional information about the series and presenters.