Child Anxiety Treatments That Work: Translating Neuroscience into Practical Strategies for Parents and Kids

• •Accurately assess childhood anxiety disorders and OCD, their severity, and related impairment


• •Create effective treatment plans utilizing a variety of treatment modalities


• •Discuss strategies for delivering effective cognitive behavior therapy in an engaging, motivating and fun way


• •Describe the process of family accommodation of youth anxiety symptoms and associated risks


• •Analyze and chart parents' involvement in childhood anxiety symptoms through family accommodation


• •Demonstrate strategies for targeting and reducing family accommodation behaviors that may trigger, prolong, or worsen anxiety

New Tools, Hope for Parents of Anxious Children
Many parents struggle to reassure children who have anxiety, staying near a child who has separation anxiety or engaging in compulsive rituals with a child who has OCD. Though well–intentioned, this kind of family accommodation can actually maintain the child's anxiety. Family accommodation also places tremendous stress and burden on the parents and their own relationship.

Through active role–playing, rich clinical case illustrations, and video demonstrations of treatment modules, this seminar explores innovative strategies for helping parents reduce family accommodation while building resilience, confidence, and coping skills. Evaluate cutting edge tools based on the latest neurobiological research that parents can use to increase their child's coping capacity in a supportive manner. Learn how to effectively identify accommodation and deliver treatment, including how to troubleshoot common challenges such as distressed or disruptive responses from children, or parents? difficulty working together. This course provides a wealth of examples and metaphors to bring the tools of CBT to life, drawn from content familiar to most youth, from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, making the treatment appealing and helping keep young patients motivated and engaged. Finally, discover a highly effective treatment protocol developed at Yale, which has been shown to improve coping and self–regulation when children refuse or don't respond to treatments such as CBT.