Sources of Anxiety and Treatment Overview
- What research tells us about therapy effectiveness applied to children
- How anxiety develops in children: the “Three Ingredients Framework”
- Biological sensitivity
- Anxiety personality style
- Stress overload
- Treatment goals, strategies and recommendations
- The baseball analogy for behavior change and symptom reduction
- Behavioral health recommendations
- The 1st intervention: “3-S” process for stress management
- Symptoms
- Sources
- Solutions
- The 2nd intervention: anxiety regulation skills
- ”Relaxation Response”
- Breathing practices
- Mindfulness practices for children
- Flow activities
- Yoga games
- Martial arts
- ”Baby Buddhas” meditation for preschoolers
- Other approaches to self-regulation
- Recommendations for schools
- Pros and cons of medication
- DSM-5® anxiety disorders: current updates
- Separation anxiety
- Normal separation process
- Therapeutic exposure
- ”Helicopter”, “bulldozer” and “snowplow” parenting
- Strategies to help parents let go
- Generalized anxiety
- Why we worry
- Introducing language for new thought patterns
- 9 strategies for replacing worry with alternative cognitive habits
- Panic disorder
- Diagnosis and treatment success rate
- Agoraphobia component
- Treatment metaphors
- ”Floating Technique”
- ”LifeSkills” Self Help Program
DAY TWO
Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders: expanded classification
- Relationship between obsessions and compulsions
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
- Excoriation (skin picking)
- Body dysmorphia
- PANDAS (medically induced OCD: Pediatric Autoimmune Disorder Associated with Streptococcus Infection)
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Selective mutism
- Self-esteem issues and treatment
- Social communication skills
- Group therapy
- Specific Phobias
- Diagnosis and examples
- Virtual reality exposure
- Stressor and Trauma-related disorders
- Expanded diagnostic classification
- Attachment disorders
- Adjustment disorders
- Acute stress disorders
- Trauma-related disorders
- New frontiers in trauma treatment
- Therapy progress measures
- Case consultations