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Digital Seminar

Loosening Anxiety's Grip: Helping Neurodiverse Tweens and Teens Build Resilience


Faculty:
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 09, 2022
Product Code:
NOS096218
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Teens and tweens with ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, and twice-exceptionality often struggle with tolerating uncertainty because of executive functioning challenges around working memory, emotional control, and prioritization. In this session, we’ll discover how to help them worry less, stop expecting the worst, and bounce back from disappointment. We’ll learn to implement a new understanding of the roots of anxiety to help neurodiverse middle and high schoolers realistically evaluate situations and calm themselves down when feeling panicked. We’ll also discuss how to intervene effectively with social anxiety and replace negative thinking with the curiosity and confidence that fosters lifelong resilience. You’ll explore how to:

  • Identify and reduce patterns of negative thinking in neurodiverse tweens and teens
  • Help teens develop the ability to externalize anxiety and reduce its influence on daily tasks and self-concept
  • Use practical tools to deal with the specific worries of alternative learners
  • Address social anxiety through the development of confidence and resilience

CPD


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 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Dr. Sharon Saline


Sharon Saline, PsyD, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Card Deck, specializes in working with children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.

With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, educator and consultant, she guides people towards a greater understanding about neurodivergence and to live with more productivity and connection. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD and neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners.

Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their weekly YouTube Live sessions. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, ADDitude Magazine and more.
Learn more at www.drsharonsaline.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Smith College School for Social Work and Additudemag.com. She is the founder and co-facilitator of Workshops at Northampton Area Pediatrics. Dr. Saline receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association.


Objectives

  1. Demonstrate how to reduce patterns of negative thinking in neurodiverse tweens and teens.
  2. Develop the ability to externalize anxiety and reduce its influence on daily tasks and self-concept.
  3. Practice at least 3 practical tools for dealing with the specific worries of alternative learners.
  4. Utilize at least 3 interventions for nurturing resilience in social and educational contexts.

Outline

  • Summary of clinical conditions of neurodiversity and executive functioning skills
  • Understanding why executive function skills matter to neurodiverse learners
  • The key relationships between neurodiversity and anxiety
  • A new approach to treating anxiety in neurodiverse teens and their families
  • Nurturing self-reliance and resilience in neurodiverse teens in therapy

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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