Now We See You: Understanding Overlooked Adolescent Depression
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Now We See You: Understanding Overlooked Adolescent Depression

Thu, Oct 30th, 2025
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

See what others miss and learn to make a lasting difference.

Too often, adolescent depression goes unseen, including among female teens and BIPOC youth. Subtle symptoms, cultural bias, and systemic blind spots can cause real pain to go unrecognized. This course helps you uncover the hidden signs, strengthen your assessment skills, and deliver care that truly connects.

Learn: -How adolescent depression presents differently than adult depression -Key ways race, culture, and gender affect symptom expression and diagnosis -How to identify and reduce unconscious bias in your clinical lens -Practical, evidence-based interventions you can use immediately -Culturally responsive strategies that improve engagement and outcomes

Every teen deserves to be seen, and every clinician deserves the insight to see clearly. Take the next step toward more equitable, effective, and compassionate adolescent care.

Session Description: This engaging and practical workshop equips clinicians, helping professionals, caregivers, and educators with the knowledge and tools needed to recognize the signs and symptoms of adolescent depression—particularly among historically underserved BIPOC youth.

Adolescent depression is frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated, especially among female teens of color. This workshop places special emphasis on the unique challenges faced by BIPOC adolescents and explores how both the race and gender of the client and clinician can influence diagnosis and treatment outcomes.

Through a blend of didactic instruction and interactive, experiential learning, participants will deepen their understanding of the intersections between historical trauma, family dynamics, and social constructs in shaping mental health. The training will also offer concrete, culturally responsive treatment interventions to support more accurate assessments and effective care.

Live Event
This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Ellen Blaufox

Ellen Blaufox

Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been a professional speaker and trainer for mental health professionals for almost three decades. She has trained mental health professionals in a variety of social service agencies, higher education institutions (NYU, Adelphi, Stony Brook, Rutgers), and private organizations providing continuing education . As an Adjunct Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work on the Westchester Campus, Ellen taught Diversity, Racism, Oppression & Privilege for multiple semesters. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Iona College where she taught Trauma in Film. In her clinical and supervisory work, Ellen was fortunate to be part of the development and implementation of myriad evidence-based, trauma treatment models.Clinical Director of the largest psychiatric treatment facility for adolescents in New York State for almost ten years, her Senior Leadership role, lead to the creation of a specialized unit for adolescent survivors or human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Ellen's clinical and supervisory work has contributed to the research, and development of various, remarkable, innovative & helpful treatment models including Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) for Residential Populations, LGBTQ + and survivors of Human Trafficking. In addition Additionally, Ellen was a Core Team member at the Jewish Board that worked with Dr. Sandra Bloom in the adaptation and implementation of the Sanctuary Model from adult (SELF) to adolescent (SAGE) populations. Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been trained (and trains others in) such evidenced-based practices as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Ellen believes that a therapeutic relationship that ensures safety, open communication and transparency, as well as hope and optimism are the proven key ingredients in patient satisfaction and successful prognosis.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Apply concrete treatment interventions to reduce depressive symptoms in adolescents through interactive and experiential practice.
  2. 2 Identify the impact of unconscious and conscious racial and gender bias in the diagnosis of depression among youth.
  3. 3 Differentiate between the presentation of depression in adolescents and adults.
  4. 4 Evaluate best practices for accurately identifying depression in adolescent populations.

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American Psychiatric Association. (2021). APA’s apology to Black, Indigenous and People of Color for its support of structural racism in psychiatry. American Psychiatric Association. https://www. psychiatry. org/newsroom/apa-apology-for-its-support-of-structural-racism-in-psychiatry.

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Kemp, G. N., O’Connor, E. E., Kritikos, T. K., Curren, L., & Tompson, M. C. (2018). Treatment Strategies for Depression in Youth. In Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Treatment (pp. 159-194). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71210-9_10

Pataki, C., & Carlson, G. A. (2016). Major depressive disorder among children and adolescents. Focus, 14(1), 10-14. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20150037

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00 - 11:15am:
Announcements, Introduction, Brief Overview of Training


11:15 - 12:30pm:

  • History of Gender & Racial Bias 
  • Impact of Stigma - Manifestations and Misdiagnosis
  • Signs & Symptoms of Depression
  • How Behavior Masks Depression

12:30 -12:45pm: BREAK

12:45 - 1:30pm:

  • Presentation of Adult vs Adolescent Depression
  • Assessment and Diagnosis of Adolescent Depression 

1:30 - 2:15pm:

  • Understanding Rumination & Best Practices for Intervention
  • CBT Interventions for Depression
  • Final Q&A



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