claritycon2025: Full Schedule

9:45am CDT

Trendy to Be Depressed: The Hidden Reasons Our Teens Aren’t Getting Better and How to Help FULL

Wednesday July 16, 2025 9:45am - 10:40am CDT

This session is also available at 11:00am.

Objectives:

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.
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.
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

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 9:45am - 10:40am CDT
302B

Breakout session

11:00am CDT

Trendy to Be Depressed: The Hidden Reasons Our Teens Aren’t Getting Better and How to Help LIMITED

Wednesday July 16, 2025 11:00am - 11:55am CDT

302B

This session is also available at 9:45am.

Objectives:

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.
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.
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.

Speakers

Leanne Foell, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Wednesday July 16, 2025 11:00am - 11:55am CDT
302B

Breakout session

1:30pm CDT

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Adolescent Treatment and Beyond LIMITED

Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:25pm CDT

302B

Objectives:

Explain TMS’s ability to modulate neural networks
Describe TMS treatment modalities for adolescents
Compare and contrast outcomes fully integrated BH systems of care

Abstract:
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an advanced, non-invasive treatment for depression, OCD and more. It’s a proven, highly effective option for patients who haven’t responded adequately to antidepressants or other treatments. Traditional modalities of medication management have limited efficacy in the treatment of depression, anxiety and PTSD in adolescents. TMS’ approach to activating neural networks that affect mental illness is a novel approach that has proven efficacy in adult, adolescents and rising literature in younger patients. When delivered in a fully integrated system of care, TMS augments the traditional treatments of individual and group therapy, medication management and social networking. Family Care Center is one of those fully integrated systems of care that address and formulate plans conjointly in the biological, psychological, social and spiritual challenges to address the whole person.

Speakers

Charles Weber, DO

Chief Medical Officer, Family Care Center

Dr. Charles Weber is the founder and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Family Care Center, one of the nation's leading providers of outpatient mental health services. Founded in 2016, the company provides integrated behavioral healthcare clinical services including therapy, medication... Read More →

Wednesday July 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:25pm CDT
302B

Breakout session

2:55pm CDT

Hurry Up and Heal: A REALISTIC Application For Treating Trauma in Schools Despite Barriers LIMITED

Wednesday July 16, 2025 2:55pm - 4:45pm CDT

302B

Objectives:

Understanding barriers: The audience will review and understand more clearly the current barriers to treating trauma in schools. They will better understand their positions and roles in the helping process in the academic setting, which will provide them with more confidence facing barriers. This will be accomplished through audience discussion and illustrated stories.
A Trauma Informed Experience: The audience will engage in experiential trauma-informed activities to improve their use of Trauma-Informed principles in their practice. The audience will accomplish this by participating in detailed exercises where they engage in self-reflection and self-evaluation.
Skills Practice: Using the Trauma Intervention Opportunity Map: The audience will learn and apply school trauma-informed interventions that consider both the boundaries present in the academic setting as well as several unused opportunities. This will include learning a new intervention that uniquely utilizes those unused opportunities. The audience will do this by evaluating video examples, practicing skills, and participating in case studies.

Abstract:
This workshop trains school professionals on how to treat youth with trauma while also uniquely and transparently addressing those frustrating academic barriers most trauma trainings seem to ignore. This workshop inspires professionals who feel limited and burnt out to see unused interventions and provides them an opportunity to practice them. It includes a Trauma-Informed experience and the introduction of a new treatment planning tool.

Statement of Need: Despite having trauma informed training, school staff and mental health professionals using trauma interventions still feel they lack the applications needed for helping a child in-the-moment. Agency barriers and unpredictable behavior makes theoretical objectives feel obsolete, which can lead to the use of ineffective interventions. This negatively impacts the adult's confidence in their helping position as well as the child's outcomes.

Speakers

Leanne Foell, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Wednesday July 16, 2025 2:55pm - 4:45pm CDT
302B

Breakout session

9:45am CDT

Where to Begin: 5 Lessons to Help the Trauma Impacted Caregiver  LIMITED

Thursday July 17, 2025 9:45am - 11:40am CDT

302B

Objectives:

Participants will learn how to teach parents and caregivers about state-dependent functioning and how this impacts their child’s behavior. 
Participants will learn 3 ways to coach self-regulation for caregivers and why this matters for de-escalation. 
Participants will learn tips and environmental strategies that can be used to modify the home environment to support regulation.

Abstract:
This presentation is designed for caregivers and family therapists working with children or adolescents with self-regulation problems. This presentation gives 5 lessons which can be used in session with caregivers and applied quickly to help increase stability and overall regulation in the home.  

Speakers

Ragan Aaron, LPC-S, RPT-S, CCTP, TBRI Practitioner

Director of Clinical Services, San Marcos Treatment Center

Ragan Aaron, LPC-S, RPT-S, CCTP, TBRI Practitioner, is the Director of Clinical Services at the San Marcos Treatment Center. In this role she is responsible for the training and supervision of the clinical therapists and the therapeutic treatment delivered to patients. This includes... Read More →

Sean Garner, LPC, RPT

Director of Clinical Programming, San Marcos Treatment Center

Sean Garner, LPC, RPT, is Director of Clinical Programming at the San Marcos Treatment Center. His focus at the treatment center is staff development and training, ensuring that our entire team is trained in trauma-informed and evidence based practices. This process involves training... Read More →

Thursday July 17, 2025 9:45am - 11:40am CDT
302B

Breakout session

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