Workshop Summary:
This session explores how adolescent neurodevelopment shapes the expression of neuroplastic symptoms—including pain, dizziness, fatigue, and OCD related patterns—and how play and attachment based interventions can restore flexibility in threat driven systems. Participants will learn developmentally attuned, nonshaming ways to help teens understand the interplay between anxiety, OCD, and neuroplastic symptoms. The session also highlights strategies for partnering with parents to reduce accommodation, strengthen connection,
Learning Objectives:
- Neurodevelopment & Intervention Participants will be able to describe how adolescent neurodevelopment, coregulation, and attachment dynamics influence neuroplastic symptoms, and identify at least two playbased strategies that promote flexibility and safety.
- The Neuroplastic–OCD Intersection Participants will be able to articulate developmentally attuned ways to help adolescents build observing capacity to recognize the interplay between anxiety, OCD patterns, and neuroplastic symptoms.
- Partnering With Parents Participants will be able to coach parents in attachment based responses that reduce reinforcement of threat loops, strengthen connection, and support environments that foster safety and neuroplastic symptom change.
