The Brook Nook: a 1-CE Hour virtual format mini-course series | Scheduled 2nd Wednesday of each month

Description: In the current mental health landscape, waiting for a crisis to occur before engaging with youth often leads to poorer clinical outcomes and increased caregiver burnout. This session shifts the focus from reactive crisis management to a proactive “early engagement” model.

Participants will explore evidence-based tips and strategies designed to identify “soft signs” of distress before they escalate. We will review clinical frameworks for initiating difficult conversations with adolescents and their families, ensuring that support systems are activated at the earliest point of need. Attendees will leave with a practical toolkit of intervention strategies that promote long-term stability and resilience in younger populations.

Objectives: Understand how to identify early behavioral indicators and “soft signs” that precede clinical crises in youth.

Understand how to apply evidence-based strategies for engaging reluctant or pre-symptomatic adolescents.

Featuring: Karley Hensley, PhD, LCPC, a licensed clinical professional counselor who earned her Ph.D. In counseling and human behavior sciences. Dr. Hensley has 17 years of experience working in the mental health field, including residential, inpatient, partial hospitalization programs and outpatient. Dr. Hensley has a certification in child and adolescent psychology, where she has utilized her skills to work within that population, focusing on the younger children in need. Dr. Hensley is the Director of Outpatient Services at Brook Lane where she oversees the North Village, Frederick and Cumberland locations, and recently began her oversite at Meritus Behavioral Health. When Dr. Hensley isn’t at work you can find her as a free Uber driver for her kids or being their number one fan in the stands!

Course Format: Virtual – Links will be provided to registrants prior to the course.

With gratitude, Brook Lane acknowledges that this program is funded in part by the William B. and Sylvia A. Hunsberger Fund.