Full Course Description
An Intensive 2-Day Workshop on Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents
Program Information
Objectives
- Describe how to use the “Three Ingredients” framework to explain how anxiety develops in children and adolescents.
- Recognize the role of family, schools, media, and global events in contributing to anxiety.
- Apply fun, engaging therapy activities to motivate your clients to change for each anxiety disorder.
- Apply a semi-structured child interview tips to develop targeted treatment plans.
- Describe four behavioral health recommendations to help all clients.
- Identify the pros and cons of prescription drugs and complimentary medicine for anxiety.
- Identify how to manage ethical risks with families of divorce.
- Describe a three-step process for teaching stress management skills to young clients.
- Apply group therapy activities to reduce social anxiety.
- Identify the “Floating Technique” for panic anxiety.
- Demonstrate exposure interventions to treat OCD, separation anxiety, social anxiety and phobias.
- Apply anxiety reduction techniques to yourself to be a motivating role model.
Outline
DAY ONE
Sources of Anxiety and Treatment Overview
- What research tells us about therapy effectiveness applied to children
- How anxiety develops in children: the “Three Ingredients Framework”
- Biological sensitivity
- Anxiety personality style
- Stress overload
- Treatment goals, strategies and recommendations
- The baseball analogy for behavior change and symptom reduction
- Behavioral health recommendations
Interventions: Stress Management and Anxiety-Regulation Skills
- The 1st intervention: “3-S” process for stress management
- Symptoms
- Sources
- Solutions
- The 2nd intervention: anxiety regulation skills
- “Relaxation Response”
- Breathing practices
- Mindfulness practices for children
- Flow activities
- Yoga games
- Martial arts
- “Baby Buddhas” meditation for preschoolers
- Other approaches to self-regulation
School Recommendations, Medication, DSM-5® Classification, and Interventions for Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Recommendations for schools
- Pros and cons of medication
- Nature’s remedies
- Herbal treatments
- Homeopathy
- DSM-5® anxiety disorders: current updates
- Separation anxiety
- Normal separation process
- Therapeutic exposure
- “Helicopter,” “bulldozer” and “snowplow” parenting
- Strategies to help parents let go
Interventions for Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorder
- Generalized anxiety
- Why we worry
- Introducing language for new thought patterns
- 9 strategies for replacing worry with alternative cognitive habits
- Panic disorder
- Diagnosis and treatment success rates
- Agoraphobia component
- Treatment metaphors
- “Floating Technique”
- “LifeSkills” Self-Help Program
DAY TWO
Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders: expanded classification
- Relationship between obsessions and compulsions
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
- Excoriation (skin picking)
- Body dysmorphia
- PANDAS (medically induced OCD: Pediatric Autoimmune Disorder Associated with Streptococcus Infection)
Interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder and Selective Mutism
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Selective mutism
- Self-esteem issues and treatment
- Social communication skills
- Group therapy
Interventions for Phobias and Stressor- and Trauma-Related Disorders
- Specific Phobias
- Diagnosis and examples
- Virtual realty exposure
- Stressor and Trauma-related disorders
- Expanded diagnostic classification
- Attachment disorders
- Adjustment disorders
- Acute stress disorders
- Trauma-related disorders
- New frontiers in trauma treatment
Wrap Up
- Therapy progress measures
- Case consultations
Copyright :
11/02/2016
BONUS | OCD: Ten Best Treatment Strategies for Children & Adolescents
Objectives
- Discover assessment tools to appropriately diagnose children with OCD.
- Utilize exposure and response prevention skills to successfully treat kids with OCD.
- Identify how to help kids and parents change the way they think about OCD.
- Tell how working with the family and school system will help children through ERP treatment.
Outline
- Diagnosing OCD
- Obsessions - Intrusive thoughts
- Compulsions - Excessive ritualistic behaviors
- Assessment tools for OCD
- How to ask questions kids will answer
- CYBOCS to assess and develop treatment plan
- Explanation of the brain using kids language
- The overactive amygdala
- Using age - appropriate metaphors
- Treatment of OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Developing fear hierarchies
- Creative ways to get kids to do exposures
- Changing how kids and parents think about OCD
- Anxiety as a paradox
- Talking back to OCD
- Teaching parents how to coach their child through ERP
- Talking back to OCD
- Using play techniques to face fears
- Working with schools
- Accommodations
- Tips for teachers and guidance counselors
- What strategies work
- Termination
- Relapse prevention
- Goals for a final session
- Resources
Program Information
Objectives
- Discover assessment tools to appropriately diagnose children with OCD.
- Utilize exposure and response prevention skills to successfully treat kids with OCD.
- Identify how to help kids and parents change the way they think about OCD.
- Tell how working with the family and school system will help children through ERP treatment.
Outline
- Diagnosing OCD
- Obsessions - Intrusive thoughts
- Compulsions - Excessive ritualistic behaviors
- Assessment tools for OCD
- How to ask questions kids will answer
- CYBOCS to assess and develop treatment plan
- Explanation of the brain using kids language
- The overactive amygdala
- Using age - appropriate metaphors
- Treatment of OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Developing fear hierarchies
- Creative ways to get kids to do exposures
- Changing how kids and parents think about OCD
- Anxiety as a paradox
- Talking back to OCD
- Teaching parents how to coach their child through ERP
- Talking back to OCD
- Using play techniques to face fears
- Working with schools
- Accommodations
- Tips for teachers and guidance counselors
- What strategies work
- Termination
- Relapse prevention
- Goals for a final session
- Resources
Copyright :
08/01/2016