Training & Supervision

Professional CEUs provided by Capital Youth Services

Institute for Clinical Excellence

at Capital Youth Services

Advancing Evidence-Based Care Through Exceptional Professional Education

2026–2027 Clinical Excellence Series: Registration Now Open

Exceptional clinicians never stop learning.

Exceptional therapy is not built by mastering a single treatment model. It develops through the integration of many complementary ways of understanding human behavior, emotional suffering, and psychological change.

The Institute for Clinical Excellence in Adolescent Mental Health Treatment at Capital Youth Services was created around this philosophy. Rather than offering isolated CEU workshops, we have intentionally curated a collection of trainings that work together to develop deeper clinical thinking, stronger case conceptualization, and greater therapeutic precision.

Each training contributes a unique perspective on helping children and adolescents overcome emotional and behavioral challenges. Collectively, they provide clinicians with a richer understanding of how psychological difficulties develop, what maintains them, and which interventions are most likely to produce lasting change.

Participants strengthen their ability to conduct comprehensive assessments, interpret neuropsychological testing, write clinically meaningful documentation, and recognize how culture, bias, and systemic influences shape both diagnosis and treatment. They gain exposure to novel, emerging, and leading evidence-based treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescent insomnia, the Unified Protocol, Positive Affect Treatment, Independence Therapy for anxious youth, and specialized approaches for selective mutism, while learning directly from treatment developers and nationally recognized experts.

More importantly, clinicians learn to identify the common mechanisms that cut across diagnoses and treatment models. They learn to identify the factors driving distress in each individual adolescent and to thoughtfully select interventions based on those mechanisms rather than simply matching a diagnosis to a protocol.

As clinicians integrate these perspectives, they become increasingly adept at engaging reluctant adolescents, developing shared treatment goals, increasing motivation, fostering emotional awareness, reducing avoidance, modifying unhelpful thinking patterns, strengthening adaptive behaviors, treating trauma, building resilience, and preventing relapse. They learn not only what interventions to use, but also when, why, and for whom those interventions are most likely to be effective.

The cumulative effect is a transformation in how clinicians think. Instead of relying on a single theoretical orientation or a limited set of techniques, they develop a flexible, evidence-informed framework that allows them to tailor treatment to the unique needs of each adolescent and family.

This is the hallmark of clinical excellence.

Our goal is not simply to help clinicians earn continuing education credits. It is to help them become more sophisticated observers, more accurate case conceptualizers, more intentional decision-makers, and more effective therapists. When clinicians can integrate insights from multiple evidence-based approaches into a coherent understanding of each client, therapy becomes more individualized, more efficient, and ultimately more successful.

Exceptional outcomes rarely result from learning one more technique. They result from learning to think differently. That is the purpose of this curriculum.

2026–2027 Clinical Excellence Series

Series Membership includes registration for every program in this year’s series, including:

• Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescence
• Unified Protocol for Adolescents
• Positive Affect Treatment
• Implicit Bias, Structural Racism, Anti-oppression
• Managing and Treating Psychosis in Outpatient Psychotherapy
• Unstuck and On Target in Therapy: Autism and Executive Dysfunction
• Treating Complex Eating Disorders Using the MED-DBT Approach
• Effective Clinical Documentation: From Misery to Mastery
• Understanding Neuropsychological Testing for Clinical Application
• Navigating Ethical Complexity in Clinical Work With Young People
• Evidence-Based Treatment of Selective Mutism
• Independence Therapy for Adolescents

For exact dates and times, click here. We add additional topics throughout the year.

Series Membership Includes

1. Access to every program in the 2026–2027 Clinical Excellence Series
2. At least 40 Category I CEUs*—enough to satisfy approximately two years of continuing education requirements for Maryland and Virginia social workers
3. Programs presented by nationally recognized experts and respected regional leaders
4. Priority registration for every training
5. Convenient scheduling, with most programs offered as half-day Friday morning workshops and occasional full-day Friday trainings throughout the year

Exceptional Value

• Individual registration value: Over $1,700
• Annual Series Membership: $995
• Series Year: September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027

Because we are committed to maintaining a high-quality educational experience, series membership may be limited.

Click here for registration

More Than CEUs

The Institute for Clinical Excellence exists for clinicians who aspire to more than maintaining their license. It is for professionals committed to continually refining their clinical judgment, mastering evidence-based interventions, and providing the highest quality care to children, adolescents, young adults, and families.

If your goal is to become not just a well-trained therapist, but an exceptional one, we invite you to join us for the inaugural Clinical Excellence Series.

Learn from nationally recognized experts. Understand evidence-based interventions. Transform the lives of the children, adolescents, young adults, and families you serve.

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Expert Clinical Consultation Services:

Expert clinical consultation with content experts

• DBT
• DBT-Adolescents
• DBT-PE
• DBT Adapted for Autism
• DBT-Children
• Therapy with Adolescents
• Therapy with Autism

Contact Britt Rathbone | britt@dbtdmv.com for more information

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We are proud of the quality of our training, and our evaluations reflect this. 99% of attendees have been very satisfied or satisfied with the training, relevance of the material, clarity of presentation, and expertise of the presenter. We offer a money back guarantee.

Sample comments from previous attendees in response to “What did you like best from this training?”

• The most important thing I want out of any training are actionable techniques I can implement right away. I felt this training gave me many tools that are easy to understand and can be used in sessions next week!
• A lot of varied interventions to use with clients- exactly what I was looking for.
• Clear, articulate presentation of material without being overwhelming.
• Depth of knowledge from the speaker.
• I enjoyed the way the presenter made the information so easy to digest. Material and use of examples were excellent
• It was simply presented and broken down to meet different levels of skill in the room.
• New interventions, resources for me
• Remarkable knowledge of content
• This speaker is dynamic and the information provided was extremely interesting and helpful.
• Very knowledgeable and well delivered- felt energized by energy of topic
• Wonderful presenter, offered concise structural explanations and examples
• The speaker was very passionate and made the workshop engaging.
• I learned a lot. Speakers used a lot of good examples to clarify points they presented.
• The topic itself is extremely interesting.

*Continuing Education Information

Capital Youth Services is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for the programs and their content. These trainings qualify for Category I continuing education units. Please contact your state board for verification of reciprocity with other states and professions. In order to receive a certificate, registrants must attend the entire session.

Capital Youth Services is a sponsor of continuing education credits for psychologists in Maryland under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Capital Youth Services maintains responsibility for the program content.