Dr. Dan Siegel's Certified Whole Brain Adolescent Clinician Training
Clinical Integrations for Anxiety, Identity, Belonging, Social Media & AI for Ages 12 to 24
- Speaker:
- Daniel J. Siegel, MD
- Duration:
- Approx. 12 Hours
- Copyright:
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Mar 22, 2027
- Product Code:
- POS110002
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar - Also available: In Person Seminar | Live Webcast
Description
Working with teens and young adults, you've seen it...
The client whose mood rises and falls with her social media likes. The one behind in school but up-to-date on the latest influencer reels. The one who talks to an AI chatbot more than his own friends.
They're craving connection. And they're chasing it through their screens.
Meanwhile, this behavior is fueling anxiety, depression, and hopelessness in young people at alarming levels.
It's happening when they're most vulnerable. Their brains are still under construction, so every scroll, swipe, and chat shapes the neural connections getting built.
You want to help….
But when you suggest less screen time, you've started a power struggle. You ask how they feel, and you get a shrug. And the models you trained in were developed before smartphones existed, let alone an AI companion in every pocket.
It can feel like trying to stop a runaway train with your bare hands.
However, there’s good news… The same drives that the platforms exploit (passion, connection, novelty, and creativity) are the forces that can help young people heal.
You just need to know how to work with them.
Dr. Dan Siegel, co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and author of Brainstorm, his bestselling book on the teenage brain, has spent years mapping exactly how.
Now, for the first time, he's built that work into a certification.
Whole Brain Certified Clinician – Adolescents is Dan's newest program, made for clinicians who treat ages 12 to 24. It pairs his core teaching on the remodeling brain with tools for what your young clients bring in today: FOBI, the curated online self, endless scrolling, and AI companions.
You'll learn how to turn the adolescent brain's greatest vulnerabilities into its greatest strengths. You'll finish with targeted interventions for anxiety, identity, belonging, social media, and AI that fit with the modalities you already use: EMDR, CBT, IFS therapy, somatic work, and more.
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Speaker
Daniel J. Siegel, MD Related seminars and products
Dr. Dan Siegel is the founder and director of education of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor of psychiatry at The School of Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB frame which focuses on the mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author and serves as a scientific advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and as an advisor for the Center for Child Well-Being. Additionally, he receives honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Siegel has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is an honorary member of the Austrian Federal Association for Mindfulness. He also serves on the Board of the Garrison Institute and as an advisory board member for both Gloo and Convergence.
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Program Information
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Objectives
- Define the core constructs of Interpersonal Neurobiology, including integration, Mindsight, and the Window of Tolerance.
- Identify the key domains of adolescent development addressed in the relational mind model: attachment, temperament, emotion, identity, and neuroplasticity.
- Interpret chaos and rigidity as clinical indicators of impaired integration in adolescents.
- Contrast symptom-focused intervention with integration-focused case formulation for overlapping presentations such as anxiety, shutdown, and reactivity.
- Summarize how attunement, co-regulation, and rupture-and-repair function as mechanisms of relational and neural change in adolescents.
- Determine whether trauma, neurodivergence, temperament, or family dynamics is the primary driver of an adolescent client's presentation.
- Use neuroscience-informed language to explain relational, reflective, and regulation-focused treatment to parents, families, schools, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Select reflection, emotional awareness, and mindfulness-based techniques within treatment plans to support brain integration in adolescent clients.
- Categorize an adolescent client's developmental stage (early, middle, or late adolescence) in relation to clinical presentation and intervention approach.
- Differentiate the roles of attachment security, emotional regulation capacity, and family context within an adolescent case presentation.
- Analyze how social media, artificial intelligence, peer comparison, and modern pressures interact with identity formation in adolescent clients.
- Prioritize attachment, temperament, trauma, and emotion regulation as treatment targets in a given clinical formulation.
- Integrate neuroscience-based understanding, attachment-informed strategies, and relational intervention into a treatment plan for an adolescent client.
- Evaluate the therapeutic relationship as an active clinical intervention supporting integration, resilience, and post-traumatic growth in a given case.
Outline
The Adolescent Brain Under Construction
- Decode how the mind grows through the body and relationships, so you can meet each client at the right point in their development
- Read risk-taking, intensity, and novelty seeking as signs of a remodeling brain, and respond with strategy in place of frustration
- Anticipate hyper-rational thinking and help young clients weigh consequences before they act
- Use attention, awareness, and intention in session to wire in lasting change during the years when it matters most
Integration, Emotion & the Whole-Brain Approach
- Spot chaos and rigidity in minutes and know exactly where integration is breaking down
- Apply Whole-Brain strategies that teens and young adults will actually use outside your office
- Help clients feel emotions in the body without being flooded by them
- Equip young people to ride emotional waves at school, at home, and online
Belonging, Identity & the Social Brain
- Map how attachment and temperament shape each client's identity, and tailor treatment to fit
- Ease the survival-level panic young people feel when they don't belong
- Help clients let go of FOBI and the curated "as-if" self
- Create the safe, seen, and soothed connection that makes real belonging possible
Social Media, AI & the Attention Economy
- Break the grip of intermittent rewards on a young client's attention
- Rebuild focus in clients raised on 10-second videos
- Help young people use AI in ways that support connection and reduce loneliness
- Guide clients to separate true needs from wants, so they choose how they spend their time
Anxiety, Resilience & the Internal Compass
- Shift young clients from anxiety and hopelessness toward steadiness and purpose
- Build flexibility, coherence, and resilience after adversity
- Teach Mindsight skills that strengthen insight, empathy, and kindness toward self and others
- Guide clients through the Wheel of Awareness to quiet the noise and find their internal compass
The Therapeutic Relationship, Parents & Families
- Earn the trust of teens who don't want to be in your office
- Use attunement and presence to deepen engagement and strengthen outcomes
- Help parents and young people move toward secure attachment together
- Repair ruptures quickly, so setbacks become turning points in treatment
Limitations of the research and potential risks will be included throughout the seminar.
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Physicians
- Educators
- Child Development Professionals
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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