Free OHA PGS Webinar Recording
Neuroscience of Risky Behavior: Youth Gambling Prevention
Description
Dr. Crystal Collier, author of The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide, teaches families how to identify their children's NeuroWhereAbouts or what stage of brain development they are in. She reviews how the brain is affected by risky behavior, including gambling. Parents and caregivers will learn how to help grow and protect children's neuro-development from risky behavior by applying prevention science principles and brain-based parenting into everyday practice.
Time Frame
This OHA webinar aired on 1/12/2023. The webinar recording will remain available indefinitely for participants to review and for everyone else to access and learn from. Continuing education (CE) hours are not available for this recording.
CE Hours
This webinar recording is not accredited for Continuing Education (CE) hours.
Target Audience
Parents and families, mental health clinicians, addiction professionals, social workers, family therapists, professional counselors, psychologists, prevention specialists, mental health treatment supervisors, agency administrators, other helping professionals.
Curious about the neuroscience of risky behavior?
Presenter
Instructor Crystal Collier
Crystal Collier, PhD, herself a person in long-term recovery, is a therapist and educator who has been working with adolescents and adults suffering from mental illness, behavioral problems, and substance use disorders since 1991. Her area of expertise includes adolescent brain development, prevention programming, parent coaching, addiction, family-of-origin work, and training new clinicians. Dr. Colliers' comprehensive prevention model, which teaches the neurodevelopmental effects of risky behavior to children, teens, teachers and parents, was selected for the 2015 Prevention and Education Commendation from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. In 2018, she received the Torch Bearer Award for her work in the field of addiction from the Texas Association of Addiction Professionals. In the same year, The Hope and Healing Center and Institute in Houston, TX, granted Dr. Collier a research fellowship to support the completion of The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Research Award from the Association of Alternative Peer Groups and was acknowledged as Counselor of the Year by the Houston Counseling Association.
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