STAND

Training Announcement: Supporting Teens’ Autonomy Daily (STAND): An evidenced-based practice for ADHD in adolescence
Virtual Training

Currently there are two options for STAND Virtual Training: Live (Zoom) or Self-Paced.

The next Live Zoom Training will be December 14-15, 2023.

Self-paced virtual training costs $300 and will be aimed at providing specialized training in the delivery of STAND to mental health providers and trainees.

The Live Training will be a two day training (6 hours per day). 

Adolescents with attention, executive functioning, and motivation difficulties often struggle at home, school, and with others. Supporting Teens’ Autonomy Daily (STAND; Sibley, 2016) is an empirically supported and award winning treatment program that is tailored to the realities of adolescence and provides skills to struggling adolescents and their parents.

The goal of this treatment is to increase adolescent self-directedness and success by engaging the parent-teen dyad in treatment. The flexible approach allows therapists to build a unique treatment plan for each case. Modules include training in adolescent organization, time management, and planning skills. It also involves helping parents find a balance between providing support and promoting teen independence. As a part of therapy, parents and teen consider making changes to the home environment and family routine in support of teen success.

STAND is delivered using a Motivational Interviewing style to help dyads reconnect with their personal goals and values and find realistic strategies that improve parent and teen quality of life. The training will involve a combination of didactics, videos of real sessions, written activities, and quizzes.

Learning Objectives: At the completion of the program participants will be able to:

  1. List the major symptoms and impairments experienced by individuals with ADHD during the developmental period of adolescence.
  2. Recognize adaptive and maladaptive parenting patterns that influence the autonomy of adolescents with ADHD.
  3. Describe the three phases of STAND (Engagement, Skills, Planning/Mobilizing) with respect to goals and core outcomes.
  4. Identify seven organization, time management, and planning skills that can be taught to adolescents with ADHD to help them compensate for their symptoms.
  5. Recognize change talk and sustain talk during a STAND session and list at least four strategies for increasing change talk through Motivational Interviewing approaches.
  6. Apply the elicit-provide-elicit strategy with parents and adolescents when introducing psychoeducation or didactic information in STAND.
  7. Demonstrate best practices in the assignment and review of therapy homework in order to promote family skill practice outside of session.
  8. Describe how contingency management (i.e., rewards programs) can be implemented in a way that is developmentally appropriate for adolescents in a way that preserves their autonomy while promoting motivation.
  9. Recognize strategies to balance parent and teen involvement in a STAND session and maintain focus on the session agenda.
  10. List at least three ways that clinicians can engage parents in the treatment of adolescent ADHD.
  11. Explain the research base on STAND and other behavioral treatments for adolescents with ADHD.
  12. Identify points of flexibility in STAND in which clinicians can adapt the treatment to culturally diverse populations while still retaining the EBP's core elements.

CE Credit: 12 hours of CE credit is available for attendees who are present for the entire program. We ask that all participants return to the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program.

Disclosures: Dr. Sibley receives book royalties from Guilford Press for the STAND manual. For additional information please contact Dr. Margaret Sibley.

STAND Learning LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. STAND Learning LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. STAND Learning LLC is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. STAND Learning LLC will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. To submit a formal written grievance, please contact Dr. Aparajita Kuriyan, Ph.D., Ethics Chairperson for STAND Learning LLC by emailing biswas.aparajita@gmail.com.