Preventing Childhood Anxiety and Depression: How to Expand Our Paradigm

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Lynn Lyons, LICSW, is an internationally recognized psychotherapist, author, and speaker with a special interest in interrupting the generational patterns of anxiety in families. Her skill-based approach to anxiety focuses on the need to teach families about HOW anxiety works and what families can do to pull members out of the powerful “anxiety cult” that demands obedience to its need for certainty and comfort. Lynn’s approach uses humor, playful connection, and a constant focus on DOING, an umbrella strategy she has taught to thousands of professionals and families.

Lynn is the co-author with Reid Wilson of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents and the companion book for kids Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids. She is the author of Using Hypnosis with Children: Creating and Delivering Effective Interventions and has two DVD programs for parents and children.

She maintains a private practice in Concord, New Hampshire where she sees families whenever she’s not on the road teaching.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lynn Lyons maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives compensation as an international presenter. Lynn Lyons 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: Lynn Lyons has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Determine family patterns that support generational anxiety and address them using skill-based interventions. 
2. Apply parental and school-based coaching and collaboration as integral pieces of treatment. 
3. Assess the most common “elimination strategies” that increase anxiety and impair functioning. 
4. Use clinical tools within group sessions, psychoeducational classes, and school-based programs to help more underserved families and effectively treat anxiety. 

Outline

• Identify family patterns that support generational anxiety and address them using skill-based interventions. 
  • How to recognize the 6 cognitive patterns of anxiety and depression 
  • Active assignments for families to create different responses and patterns 
  • Increase prevention through parents’ understanding of emotional family legacy 
• Apply parental and school-based coaching and collaboration as integral pieces of treatment. 
  • Why seeing children alone inhibits prevention (and treatment) 
  • How to shift the common reactive paradigm in schools  
  • The importance of targeting and building concrete skills for prevention 
• Assess the most common “elimination strategies” that increase anxiety and impair functioning. 
  • Common interventions that support anxiety and depression 
  • How to intervene with an active, “on offence” approach 
  • The backwards use of accommodations for anxiety 
• Use clinical tools within group sessions, psychoeducational classes, and school-based programs to help more underserved families and effectively treat anxiety. 
  • Ideas for groups and other formats to focus on parenting prevention 
  • How accurate information and myth-busting strengthen families  
  • Setting the expectations of parental engagement (hint: it’s what parents want) 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals