Anxiety and Disruptive Behaviors in Children-Alternative Explanations, Solutions and Treatment Techniques – Christi Bostwick

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Children’s behavior sometimes just does not make sense. They may behave great at school and then trash the house when they get home. They may wake at night with terrors even though nothing disruptive seems to be going on during the day. Nice parents with out of control kids are difficult to figure out.

Dr. Bostwick has worked with children and their parents for over 25 years conducting research and providing cognitive behavioral solutions to even the most puzzling behavior. Common childhood milestones can become challenging if a child doesn’t behave as we would expect. Dr. Bostwick will show you how anxiety and unexpected behavior can be a side effect of other problems you may not have considered. Kids with baffling behavior are often resistant to tried and true treatment options for anxiety and behavior disorders.

Watch Dr. Bostwick, who has done the hard work for you, in this recording! She’ll share developmentally appropriate considerations and techniques on how to proceed with highly sensitive childhood behavior:

• Suicidal five-year-old
• Child running the household and parents walking on eggshells
• 3-year-old who has just been kicked out of her second daycare
• 6-year-old tells you they hear voices or see things that are not there

Dr. Bostwick will help you create real and positive long term change that promotes healthy development from childhood into adolescence and beyond! Don’t miss an opportunity to learn from her.

1. Apply developmental principles to aid in differentiating appropriate courses of action for assessing anxiety and difficult behavior in children.
2. Integrate traditional clinical interview techniques with developmentally based applications.
3. Analyze the diagnostic benefits of creating a developmentally informed office environment when working with children.
4. Differentiate common discipline practices used by parents from research-based behavior management techniques.
5. Assess overlooked diagnostic clues to help treatment resistant anxiety and behavior disruptions.
6. Evaluate alternative explanations for bewildering childhood anxiety and behavior disorders.

Considerations to Improve Your Diagnostic Accuracy When Treating Children with Anxiety

• Role of development
• Therapeutic setting
• Clinical interviews with young children
• Avoidant behavior
• Children 0-2
• Helpful therapeutic aids

Strategies for Therapeutic Flexibility

• Gain rapport, read what needs to happen
• ”Get down on the floor”
• When parents should and shouldn’t stay
• Discussing sensitive information
• When to request separate session with parents: Rookie mistakes

Behavior Management Techniques – Foundational Principles

• Objectives
• Types of attention and how they help or inhibit parental control
• Essential techniques to avoid
• Essential techniques to include

Strategies for Differential Diagnoses in Children: Anxiety or a Symptom of Something Else?

Anxiety

• Healthy developmental trajectory
• Adult versus childhood anxiety
• Translating research-based calming techniques to other settings
• Adjustment disorders
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Panic

ADHD

• Can be diagnosed at four years of age, but should it be?
• Hyperactivity trajectory
• Inattention trajectory
• Is ADHD really an attention deficit?

Encopresis

• What is it – Why you need to Know
• Other toileting difficulties
• Genetic predisposition to constipation/constipation in infancy
• Toileting refusal
• Stool withholding

Sensory Processing Deficits

• The immature neurological system
• World as sandpaper – sensory processing issues to consider

Learning Difficulties

• Dyslexia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyscalculia
• ADHD

Advanced Cognitive Ability

• Aggression in highly intelligent children
• Intellectually eccentric child