Understanding Disruptive, Impulse-Control & Conduct Disorders to Better Support System-Involved Youth

Nicole Kelly, PsyD & Nancy Acosta, PsyD

Training Description

Some system-involved youth demonstrate impulsive and aggressive behaviors. This training will provide an overview of DSM-V TR disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders including their prevalence and what these behaviors look like. Participants will learn how to improve support for system-involved youth experiencing impulse control and conduct disruptions and their caregivers.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be to identify at least one characteristic of conduct disorders.

· Participants will be able describe at least 1 strategy to support system-involved youth with impulse-control problems.

· Participants will be able to describe at least 1 strategy to support system-involved youth with conduct disorders.

Agenda

10:00-10:15am  Welcome

10:15-11:45am  Intermittent explosive disorder, pyromania and kleptomania

· Overview of disruptive behaviors

· Intermittent explosive disorder characteristics

· Signs of intermittent explosive disorder

· Pryomania

· Kleptomania

· Vignettes

11:45am-12:00pm  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

12:00-1:45pm  Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder

· Oppositional defiant disorder characteristics

· Signs of oppositional defiant disorder

· Conduct disorder characteristics

· Signs of conduct disorder

· Trauma and disruptive behaviors

· Strategies of support

· What those who support system-involved youth can do

· Vignettes

1:45-2:00pm  Closing

Meet Our Trainer

Nicole Kelly is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

Nancy Acosta is a bilingual therapist who has 7 years of experience working with trauma at a sexual assault center. She has provided services to children and adults in various settings including outpatient community mental health centers, college counseling centers, crisis centers, and in an integrated behavioral health setting. She has completed training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy as well as Cognitive Processing Therapy. She has experience providing training and supervision to doctoral level graduate students in trauma related topics including crisis intervention, vicarious trauma, and grounding techniques. In addition to developing a training manual for a student training program at a rape and crisis center, she also has experience supervising practicum students and providing support to staff and advocates. Nancy has experience working as a behavioral health consultant with multidisciplinary staff to improve recognition, treatment and management of behavioral problems and conditions.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.75) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.