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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

Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 02/11/2016

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

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Educators, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists/Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists

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