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Trendy to Be Depressed: The Hidden Reasons Our Teens Aren’t Getting Better and How to Help LIMITED
Wednesday July 16, 2025 11:05am - 12:00pm CDT
302B
Objectives: 
  1. The audience will be able to define and identify hidden rewards, which are the subconscious reasons people hold onto mental suffering rather than getting better. The audience will learn how teens are particularly vulnerable to mental health hidden rewards and that addressing them in treatment brings successful outcomes.
  2.  The audience will learn how the increase of audiovisual-based, algorithmic social media platforms (like TikTok) have perpetuated teen’s hidden rewards. The audience will learn the connection between social media’s mental health trends and teens' limited motivation to get better.
  3. The audience will learn, and practice in session, interventions to help teens impacted by hidden rewards. The interventions practiced will support the concept that hidden agendas are a sign a teen is suffering, not that they are manipulative or lazy.

Abstract: 
 This workshop reviews the hidden rewards or benefits a teen may get from being mentally unwell. Audiences will learn how social media perpetuates these hidden rewards, making mental health issues like ADHD and depression “trendy.” Audiences will walk away knowing how to identify hidden rewards and how to help teens avoid them.
 
Statement of Need: Adults who currently work with and interact with teens in mental health are starting to feel just as stuck as the teens they work with. In addition to misunderstanding what it's like to be a teen in the 2020's, we are also lacking training on how social media intersects with mental health. These limitations lead to burnout and affect our interventions with youth.
Speakers
avatar for Leanne Foell, LCSW

Leanne Foell, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Leanne is a licensed clinical social worker who practices mental health therapy with teens in Dallas, Texas. Leanne has worked with teens in almost every place you can find them, this includes high schools, juvenile detention centers, inpatient behavioral hospitals, pediatric centers... Read More →
Wednesday July 16, 2025 11:05am - 12:00pm CDT
302B
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