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Aureen Wagner

CBT for OCD and Anxiety: User-Friendly Treatment for Children and Adolescents
August 4-8

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in children and adolescents, affecting about 13% of youngsters. CBT can help as many as 80% of these children successfully overcome OCD and anxiety. However, it is estimated that the majority of anxious children do not receive CBT, due in part to a significant shortage of clinicians with expertise in CBT with youngsters. Clinicians often find it difficult to access in-depth clinical training in CBT.

This workshop is designed for clinical practitioners and school professionals with beginner to intermediate experience in CBT who are seeking training in the everyday application of CBT for OCD and anxiety. Participants will learn empirically-sound, developmentally sensitive, appealing and practical CBT approaches that are feasible in clinical settings and designed to optimize motivation and treatment compliance in children and adolescents.

Dr. Wagner's workshop will maximize opportunities for learning through clinical vignettes, video-taped demonstrations and case discussion. Participants will learn to develop and implement creative and specific treatment plans. Strategies for building treatment-readiness, collaborating with parents, managing anxiety in school, working with reluctant children, relapse prevention, and challenges in treatment will be discussed. Detailed handouts will be provided and Teaching Tools and forms for assessment and treatment will be reviewed. Participants are encouraged to bring cases for discussion.

Monday

  • The clinical picture of OCD and anxiety in children and adolescents
  • Co-morbidity and differential diagnosis
  • Risk factors for anxiety
  • Cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety
  • The Fuel for Anxiety: The Anxiety Triad, The Vicious Cycle of Avoidance, and parenting responses

    Tuesday

  • Principles of CBT for OCD and anxiety
  • Developmental challenges: Can children really do CBT?
  • Child-friendly CBT: Metaphors, auditory/visual tools, family involvement & incentives
  • Cognitive strategies and the Socratic technique
  • Exposure, habituation and anticipatory anxiety
  • Collaborating with parents and families
  • Parenting strategies that foster non-anxious behavior in children
  • What not to do: Behaviors that delay recovery

    Wednesday

  • CBT for OCD: The Four-Phase Worry Hill Protocol
  • Phase I: Biopsychosocial Assessment and Treatment: Individualized treatment focused on the recovery of the whole child
  • Phase II: Cultivating Treatment Readiness: Stabilization, Communication, Persuasion and Collaboration
  • Phase III: The RIDE: Exposure and Ritual Prevention for OCD
  • Phase IV: After the RIDE: Long-term recovery and proactive relapse prevention

    Thursday

  • CBT in action: Cognitive strategies and exposure hierarchies for separation anxiety, school refusal, generalized anxiety, posttraumatic stress, social anxiety, panic, and specific phobias

    Friday

  • Helping anxious children in school
  • Managing meltdowns and explosiveness at home and school
  • Medications for anxiety and OCD
  • Dismantling treatment-reluctance in the child or family
  • When treatment is not working
  • Lessons learned from the trenches
  • Tools of the trade, clinical style, and the art of CBT

    Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation. Dr. Wagner is a Clinical Child Psychologist who is widely recognized for her unique Worry Hill approach to making cognitive-behavioral therapy accessible to youngsters. She is a highly engaging and sought-after speaker whose workshops consistently receive outstanding reviews. Dr. Wagner is also the author of several books and treatment resources for professionals including: Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Manual, Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children, Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment, and What to do when your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions (see www.Lighthouse-Press.com).

     

     

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