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Digital Seminar

Therapeutic Ruptures with Teens: A Complete Toolkit to Repair Broken Trust, Rebuild Connection and Get Treatment Back on Track


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Speaker:
Sophie Cassell, PhD
Duration:
6 Hours 14 Minutes
Copyright:
29 Jul, 2025
Product Code:
POS150200
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
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Description

Working with teenagers in therapy can be incredibly rewarding, but let’s face it – it’s also one of the most challenging roles you’ll ever take on.

Desire for independence, fluctuating motivation, and evolving emotional needs make the work tricky – and can lead to therapeutic ruptures that can be difficult to identify, let alone repair …

That’s why I created this all-new training to make sure you can not only recognize but also address therapeutic ruptures with strategies that work, so you can repair the relationship and keep your work with teens on track.

You’ll get the skills, tools and clinical language to:

  • Assess the “mental and developmental” age of your teen clients to tailor your approach and interventions more effectively.
  • Implement a straightforward framework for recognizing and addressing ruptures during sessions with adolescents.
  • Master strategies to repair ruptures and rebuild trust with teens in a way that strengthens the therapeutic alliance.
  • Leverage past ruptures as opportunities for growth, using them to deepen and enhance your connection with your teen clients.

Don’t let ruptures derail your work – purchase today and take your therapeutic practice with teens to the next level.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

This online program is worth 6.25 hours CPD.



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Speaker

Sophie Cassell, PhD Related seminars and products


Sophie Cassell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in New York State. Formerly an educator, she is now an expert in the treatment of adolescents. She boasts an extensive educational background, including a master’s from the University of Miami and a doctorate from the Derner School of Professional Psychology at Adelphi University. Dr. Cassell has worked in numerous treatment settings, including schools, juvenile adjudication programs, inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, and private practice. Currently, Dr. Cassell operates her own private practice wherein she offers individual therapy, attachment-based family therapy, and neuropsychological testing for middle – and high-school aged adolescents and young adults.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sophie Cassell maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Elmhurst Hospital Center. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sophie Cassell has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Determine how to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
  2. Analyze the relationship between rupture-repair dynamics and treatment dropout in adolescent therapy.
  3. Identify how different stages of adolescent development influence the formation and maintenance of the therapeutic alliance.
  4. Identify the therapists’ role in rupture process.
  5. Examine transference and countertransference pitfalls that occur within treatment with adolescents.
  6. Determine how therapists can turn the experience of rupture into a tangible, identifiable series of observable behaviors.
  7. Use strategies such as validation, trust-building, and curiosity to repair ruptures in the therapeutic alliance during adolescent therapy.

Outline

Alliance and Ruptures 101
  • Overview of the working alliance
  • Important features of maintaining a therapeutic alliance
  • Defining Rupture – a break in the working alliance
  • Impact of a rupture of the working alliance and treatment
  • Frequency/normality and importance of ruptures in therapeutic process
Adolescence, Developmental Age and Other Treatment Factors
  • How is an adolescent defined developmentally?
  • Distinguish chronological age from developmental age, and why is this important?
  • The impact of adolescence on social relationships
  • Autonomy and pushing boundaries as an important aspect of adolescence
  • Factors that may contribute to rupture (involuntary participation, parental involvement. etc.)
The Keys to Identifying Ruptures in Teen Treatment
  • The types of rupture
  • What do these types of rupture look like? (video references)
  • Behaviors typical of each rupture
  • Understanding ruptures impact on the teen
  • Rupture and countertransference
  • The rupture’s impact on the treatment
Autonomy, Power Dynamics, and the Role of Empathy in Repair
  • How will ruptures manifest differently in adolescents?
  • The power differential and how it affects rupture experience
  • Distinguish autonomy-seeking from rupture process
  • Countertransference experience in a rupture process with adolescents
  • How empathy during ruptures facilitates repair
Targeted Repair Strategies for Teens
  • Mentalization of rupture – what is being communicated during this rupture?
  • 5 common rupture repair techniques
  • How to use adolescent developmental age to tailor repair to your teen
  • How to assess efficacy of repair interventions
  • Ongoing challenges to repair work with adolescents
  • Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • School Counsellors
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Social Workers
  • School Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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