BRWN-0070 - Understanding the Adolescent Brain: What Were You Thinking?
In this on-demand lecture, Lorien Carter and Annie Philips provide an overview of the neural processes occurring during adolescence, explaining how brain development influences behavior. Additionally, they share implications of this information for constructive interactions with teens.
This is a recorded asynchronous distance learning course.
- Approximate duration: 1 hour
- Registration: $20
- CEs: 1
(contingent on passing a multiple-choice post-test, score of 70% or higher)
Following registration and payment, you will receive an email with a link to view the lecture, print off handouts, and take the post-test. Complete viewing and the post-test at your convenience at any time over the next 30 days.
Questions about online lectures? Please email us at brownprofdev@wustl.edu.
Course Outline
Content Level: Beginner
Target Audiences: Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals
Date Recorded: May 1, 2021
Agenda & Timing:
- Introduction – 9 min
- Neural Processes of Adolescent Brain Development – 13 min
- Understanding How The Brain Develops – 15 min
- Adolescent Thinking Patterns – 14 min
- The Role of Adults in Encouraging Adolescent Brain Development – 15 min
Learner Outcomes
- Summarize the three key processes happening in the teenage brain (proliferation, pruning, and myelinization)
- Describe how different learning experiences and environments impact brain development in the teenage years
- Summarize common teenage thinking patterns and behavior
- Explain how supportive adults can engage teenagers in critical thinking and processing
Course Completion Requirements:
The Brown School is an approved provider of Social Work CEUs in Missouri and Illinois.
The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, Professional Development, provider #2130, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/24/2024 – 9/24/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits.
To earn CE credit, registrants must watch all videos in their entirety, pass a post-test with a score of 70% or higher, and complete and evaluation with in 30 days of registration. Partial credit is not available.
Missouri and Illinois CE Certificates will be available online within 10 business days of course completion by visiting your learner profile at https://ce.wustl.edu/portal/logon.do?method=load&parentSite=brown. You will receive an email notification with specific instructions for accessing the online certificate when it is available. ACE CE Certificates, if requested in your evaluation survey, will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
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