This presentation offers a unique perspective on the experience and treatment of anxiety in adolescents.
When a young child’s needs/emotions are chronically unmet due to abuse, neglect, and/or misattunement, children foreclose on those very needs/emotions in favor of adapting to what’s available to them rather than what they need. Attendees will learn how to conceptualize psychobiological adaptations to misattunement and its connection to anxiety through the lens of attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and developmental affective neuroscience. Attendees will also learn how to apply clinical skills specifically oriented to addressing adaptive patterns that are often at the root of adolescent turmoil.