Facilitating Emergence: A Model for Launching Young Adults with Cognitive and Emotional Challenges

Increasingly, young adults are not leaving their parents' homes, establishing careers, or settling into satisfying relationships.  The developmental stage of Emerging Adulthood is wrought with a Failure to Launch.  For young adults with cognitive and emotional disorders, the challenge is even greater. This webinar presents a developmental model provided in an academic milieu that supports mental health services, realistically defines accommodations, and actively addresses family dynamics that fail to launch.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to identify and intervene upon the constellation of factors that prevent young adults with cognitive and mental disorders from achieving independence. 

(1)     Participants will be able to discern emerging adulthood issues that are specific to young adults with cognitive and emotional disorders from those that are common in the current cohort of young adults.

(2)     Participants will be familiar with an academic/developmental model that addresses the specific needs of young adults with cognitive and emotional disorders and promotes self-advocacy.

(3)     Participants will learn to develop strength-based treatment plan objectives that support young adult development and academic achievement.

(4)     Participants will understand the benefit of incorporating motivational interviewing, family systems theory, and brief solution focused approaches with young adults.

(5)     Participants will be aware of the opportunities for specialization and consultation in their practice of professional counseling.

CE Broker Tracking #: 20-548595

About the Presenter:

Nicki Nance, PhD, LMHC, has provided mental health, substance abuse, and employee assistance services for more than 40 years in hospitals, agencies, correctional facilities, and private practice. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor, who also holds certifications as Master Addictions Counselor and Clinical Mental Health Counselor.  She has presented at national and state conferences, and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Theories of Counseling, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice.  She is a professor in the graduate counseling program at Webster and at Beacon College, a SACS accredited institution that exclusively serves students with learning differences, ADHD, ASD, and associated mental and emotional challenges.