Steven O’Brien – 2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents

Description

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents will be on creative psychotherapy involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions.

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you will be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification serves as an indicator to colleagues, employers, and clients that you have made the necessary additional time and effort to comprehend the intricacies of anxiety counseling for children and adolescents. Professional standards are enforced. For additional information, please visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA.

Who is Steve O’Brien?

Dr. Steve O’Brien is a clinical psychologist with nearly three decades of experience in the treatment of children, adolescents, and families at his Clearwater, Florida, practice. His areas of expertise encompass the treatment of childhood anxiety and depression, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the adjustment to a divorced or blended family. Dr. O’Brien employs an integrative paradigm that customizes treatment to the developmental stage of both children and parents. His method combines intensive parental and familial interventions with individual child therapy. Dr. O’Brien has experience in a diverse array of clinical settings, such as psychiatric hospitals, community mental health centers, and medical clinics. Acquiring his PsyD from Nova Southeastern University, he underwent specialized training in applied developmental psychology. He is a frequent guest speaker in the Tampa Bay area and his clinical practice includes a significant amount of pediatric, child psychiatric, and school consultation. Dr. O’Brien has served as a continuing education provider for the Juvenile Welfare Board and is a highly regarded speaker for PESI. Her primary focus is on the training of professionals in the fields of child/adolescent mental health treatment and complex family issue.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven O’Brien is a private practitioner. Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. provide him with a speaking honorarium and recording royalties. There are no pertinent financial relationships between him and organizations that are ineligible.
Non-financial: Dr. Steven O’Brien is a member of the Florida Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents with Steven O’Brien

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 TraumaRelated Disorders
• Specific Phobias
• Diagnosis and examples
• Virtual reality 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

Objectives

1. Integrate motivational therapeutic activities into your practice to improve client engagement in treatment.
2. Develop structured clinical interviewing strategies to aid in developing comprehensive treatment plans.
3. Assess the “3 ingredient framework” of how anxiety develops in children to assist with assessment and treatment planning.
4. Analyze the efficacy of prescription drugs for treatment of anxiety symptoms in children.
5. Devise a three-step skill building model for stress management among young clients.
6. Evaluate exposure therapy interventions for effective treatment of OCD, separation anxiety, social anxiety and phobias.
7. Design effective strategies to decrease the stress response in kids with learning disabilities to improve information processing, listening skills, and comprehension.
8. Integrate calming techniques to reduce overall anxiety, such as mindfulness and yoga, to reduce fight or flight response and simultaneously engage the relaxation response.
9. Evaluate the impact deep breathing exercises have on anxiety to enable task completion in children with ADHD.
10. Utilize specific anxiety techniques to minimize the ruminative nature of obsessive thoughts that often precede dysfunctional compulsive behaviors.
11. Prepare clients to engage the parasympathetic nervous system to create new neuropathways to reduce hyper arousal and decrease maladaptive behaviors.
12. Develop clinical strategies to decrease symptoms of pervasive separation anxiety in children and adolescents.

Target Audience

• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Counselors
• Teachers
• School Administrators
• Nurses
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children

Refund is acceptable:

• Firstly, item is not as explained
• Secondly, 2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents with Steven O’Brien do not work the way it should.
• Thirdly, and most importantly, support extension can not be used.

Thank You For Choosing Us! We appreciate it.