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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Webinar Series: Latest Developments in the Treatment of Adolescent Trauma: Teletherapy in the Age of COVID-19
2/25/2021 - 2/25/20212:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Description
Workshop Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and intensifies, clinicians and youth are
confronted with social distancing and other infection control requirements that generally preclude in-
person psychotherapy. This workshop with outline the benefits and challenges of providing trauma
therapy to adolescents over the internet, and makes a series of concrete suggestions regarding best
practices for teletherapy.
John Briere, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School
of Medicine, University of Southern California, and Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training
Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. A past president of the International Society
for Traumatic Stress Studies, he is recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science
of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the William N. Friedrich
Lecturer: Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Child Psychology from the Mayo Clinic.
confronted with social distancing and other infection control requirements that generally preclude in-
person psychotherapy. This workshop with outline the benefits and challenges of providing trauma
therapy to adolescents over the internet, and makes a series of concrete suggestions regarding best
practices for teletherapy.
John Briere, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School
of Medicine, University of Southern California, and Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training
Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. A past president of the International Society
for Traumatic Stress Studies, he is recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science
of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the William N. Friedrich
Lecturer: Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Child Psychology from the Mayo Clinic.