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Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: Changing the Family Dance

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Objectives

Articulate worry managing strategies where the client expects anxiety to occur
Evaluate strategies to help clients stay focused on demoting worry
Articulate methods for clients to explore skills and strengths to keep moving forward in the therapeutic setting

Outline

Introduction
- What’s going on?
- Anxious Parents Causing Anxious Children
- Better Emotionally Equipped Children
Cognitive Skills Needed to Equip Children
- Three Things Found in Children with Anxiety
Current Way of Handling Children with Anxiety
- How We Need to Treat
Process-Based Approach vs. Content-Based Approach
Prevention of Anxiety and Depression
- Cognitive Patterns and Specific Skills
  - GCP
Positive Expectancy
Family-Frontloading
Do NOT Support Anxiety
- Support Uncertainty and Support being Uncomfortable
- Teach Skills to Parents and Kids - Three Targeted Areas
Critical Concepts
Seven “Puzzle Pieces”
- Ways/Strategies to Manage Worry
- Targeting in School

Copyright : 03/24/2017

OCD and Children: It’s a Family Affair

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Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

Family Inclusive Treatments (FITs)
- High Family Involvement in Treatment
- Psycho-education
- Tackling OCD in Families
OCD Facts & Medication
- SSRIs
- CBT and E/RP
OCD and Comorbidity
- Tics & Tourette’s Syndrome
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Early Age Onset, Gender, Severity, Family Impact
- Executive Function Overload
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and NVLD
Heart of OCD
- “Doubt-Factory”
- Two Big Demands
  - Content vs. Process
  - Doing the Disorder?
- OCD Content Trap
- Content & Process
- Entanglement
- Family Frontloading
Working with Families
- Exercise for Families
- Demote OCD and Anxiety
- Understanding OCD’s Control
Treating OCD
- Exposure and Response Prevention
- Expect & Face Anxiety
- Expect Worry and Talk to It
- Externalizing OCD
- Willing to be Uncomfortable on Purpose
- E/RP Interventions and Homework
Handling OCD
- Home, School
- Changing reaction to OCD Thoughts

Objectives

Identify patterns of OCD to help improve treatment outcomes
Articulate how to create interventions that focus on interrupting the process of OCD to help improve therapeutic outcomes
Explore how to engage families in treatment using concrete explanations and homework assignments
Explore how to communicate with parents and schools to help enhance consistent responses to a child’s OCD

Copyright : 03/25/2017

Mindfulness for Children and Teens: A Practical Approach

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Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

Introduction & Overview
Growing Mindful
- Start with Ourselves!
What is Mindfulness?
- Attention, Presence, Acceptance & Non-Judgement
Stress and Mindfulness
- Regress vs. Progress
Breathing in Mindfulness
Adapting Mindfulness
Why Mindfulness?
- Mindful Community
The Developing Brain
“Alphabreaths”
The Buy-In
Technology and Mindfulness
Roadmap for Resistance

Objectives

Articulate how to present mindfulness to help break through client resistance and maximize engagement in and out of the clinical hour
Summarize how to use specific strategies to tailor mindfulness to inform clinical treatment interventions
Compile practices that help children with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other behavioral disorders

Copyright : 03/25/2017

Who’s Afraid of Children in Family Therapy?: How Therapists Can Help

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Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

Welcome
- Introduction to Objectives
- Obstacles of Including Children in Therapy
- What is Theraplay?
The Beginning of Theraplay
- Head Start
- Importance of Play
- Attachment
- Regulating
Family Therapy and Play
- Relationship Building
Theraplay Parental and Therapist Aspects & Dimensions
- Modeling by Therapist for Parents
- Structure Dimension
- Engagement Dimension
  - Safety
  - Attunement
- Nurture Dimension
  - Down Regulating
- Challenge Dimension
- Theraplay Case Examples
Theraplay Sessions
- Who to Include and When to Include Them
- Who to Start With
Theraplay and DDP
- Nonverbal Communication
- Rhythm
- Eye Contact
- Affect
- Touch
- Focus of Therapies
- SCNC & PACE
- Case Examples
  - Maintaining Window of Arousal
  - Monitoring Nonverbal Communication
- Questions and Comments

Objectives

Describe a child’s needs to feel safe, trust, connect, and experience joy through the Four Dimensions of Relationship
Articulate how to become a more effective communicator with children using G.R.E.A.T. (gesture, rhythm, eye contact, affect, and tone of voice)
Summarize specific strategies to help optimize children’s involvement in therapy
Articulate effective methods for using rhythmic movement and touch to create connection and help improve client engagement

Copyright : 03/24/2017

Children Who Bully: Strategies for Recognizing and Responding to Them

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Objectives

Articulate strategies to help build social-emotional competence in kids
Compile Information and advice for cultivating digital citizenship to help address cyberbullying with clients

Outline

Learning Objectives
- Five separate strategies to understand and prevent bullying
Strategy One - Know Bullying When You See Bullying
- Bullying Behavior
  - Purpose, Pattern, Purpose
- Empathy
Strategy Two - Build Social-Emotional Competence
- Five specific areas of social skills
  - Empathy, Kindness, Compassion
  - Emotion Management
  - Social Problem-Solving
  - Friendship Building
  - Assertiveness
- Teaching competency skills
Strategy Three - Stop Bullying When You See Bullying
- Quick Intervention
- Assertive, Clear, Firm, Fair
- Fifteen seconds or less
- Role Play Responses
Strategy Four - Deal with Cyberbullying
- Policies holding individual accountable
- What makes cyberbullying bad?
- Strategies for Professionals and Parents
  - Connections, Competency, Cared For, Control
- Discussion of cyber-lingo
Strategy Five - Make it Easy for Kids to Talk About Bullying
- Guidelines
- Team Problem Solving

Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Working with Traumatized Adolescents: How to Get Unhooked

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Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

Welcome & Objectives
The One Big Question
- Dependability & Isolation
Paradigm Shift of LH to RH
- Co-Regulation
- From Divided Brain to Dual Brain
Attachment & Trauma
- Classifications of Attachment
- Therapy and Attachment Trauma
- The Traumatized Teen
- Dissociation
Developmental Trauma
- Misdiagnosis
- Dysregulation
Symptoms and Body Memories
- “Feelings Flashbacks”
Therapist in Trauma Therapy
- Insecurity, Anxious, Dismissive
Therapy and Attachment Trauma
- Earned Attachment Security
- Mirroring, Mentalization, Mindfulness, Modulation
  - Four Big Hooks
- Empathic Validation
Enactment & Self-Disclosure
- Internal Working Models
- Therapeutic Intervention Components

Objectives

Describe specific adolescent attachment styles as they relate to clinical practice
Apply the React, Reflect, and Respond model to best support adolescent clients in recovering from trauma