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Digital Seminar

CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents: Evidence-based Strategies to Target Specific Behaviors and Diagnosis


Faculty:
Amanda Crowder, MSW, LCSW
Duration:
6 Hours 20 Minutes
Copyright:
07 Mar, 2024
Product Code:
POS054235
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Parents and caregivers often arrive in treatment seeking solutions for children who are struggling behaviorally or emotionally. As therapy progresses, some clients make early gains but later plateau or regress, leaving clinicians uncertain about next steps.
 
In this training, Amanda Crowder, LCSW, presents a practical, strategy-focused workshop designed to expand clinicians’ CBT toolkits for children and adolescents with complex presentations.
 
Participants will explore creative, activity-based CBT interventions that enhance engagement, build regulation, and strengthen family collaboration.
 
Through case examples, experiential exercises, and applied learning, participants will be able to:

  • Improve outcomes for children and adolescents presenting with disruptive behavior, trauma, anxiety, and self-injurious behaviors.
  • Integrate developmentally appropriate CBT interventions that can be individualized across diagnostic and temperamental profiles.
  • Support children’s emotional regulation, relational functioning, and academic participation through activity-based strategies.
  • Facilitate stronger therapeutic alliances and family collaboration to enhance motivation, satisfaction, and continuity of care.

 
By the end of this program, participants will have a set of concrete, developmentally informed CBT interventions to support effective treatment planning and improve engagement with complex or avoidant young clients.

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Formulate strategies to develop a therapeutic alliance that engage children and adolescents in easy, creative and effective therapeutic cognitive behavioral activities.
  2. Integrate evidence-based CBT techniques to modify and change maladaptive behaviors.
  3. Evaluate negative self-talk, thoughts, assumptions and core beliefs.
  4. Choose emotional regulation activities that help children & adolescents strengthen their emotional language to reduce dysregulation.
  5. Use approaches to engage families in the treatment of children and adolescents.
  6. Utilize the CBT thought record and mood charting in order to enhance data-based decision making.

Outline

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Brief Overview

  • CBT model and tools of change
  • CBT’s influence on the evolution of other models
  • Cultural and developmental limitations
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Enhance the Structure of CBT Sessions Concrete Strategies to:

  • Build a therapeutic relationship
  • Manage resistance and avoidance
  • Differentiate between cognitive distortions and core beliefs
  • Identify and disempower problematic negative beliefs
  • Tailor identification and expression of feelings
  • Provide psychoeducation and skills for parents
  • Practice an “easy-to-follow” case conceptualization & treatment planning model

MUST-HAVE CBT TECHNIQUES, CASE EXAMPLES, ACTIVITIES, EXERCISES, AND HANDS-ON PRACTICE FOR:

Trauma

  • Cognitive narratives and trauma stories
  • Utilization of play
  • Build resilience
  • Symptom relief and coping mechanisms

ODD, Conduct Disorder, Disruptive Behaviors, & Anger

  • Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
  • Anger, aggression, and dysregulation
  • Communication
  • Build alliances and positive relationships
  • Emotional vocabulary and regulation

Anxiety, Depression & OCD

  • Assessment, diagnosis, and medications
  • Externalize “bad” worry
  • Identify body reactions
  • Assertiveness skills
  • The need for control

Mood Disorder

  • Mood charting
  • Reframe thoughts
  • Create peace and gratitude
  • Body mindfulness and control

Self-Injurious Behaviors & Suicidality

  • Assessment and treatment strategies
  • Self-esteem and confidence building
  • Identify negative self-talk
  • Problem solving and coping skills
  • Foster motivation

Parental Supports

  • Attachment
  • Receive and give love
  • Choices as a problem-solving skill
  • Set and keep limits and boundaries
  • Structure and routine
  • Rewards and punishments
  • “Time outs” for parents

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • School Counsellors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • Educators
  • Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Speech-Language Pathologists

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