Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children & Adolescents Certificate Course: 3-Day Intensive Training – David M. Pratt

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In this breakthrough Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Certificate Course recording, develop core competencies and transform your skills to achieve better therapeutic outcomes, even with your most challenging children or adolescents!

You will be able to utilize concrete strategies that will provide greater healing for your clients who suffer from:

• ODD
• Anxiety
• Depression
• PTSD
• OCD
• Bipolar Disorder
• Substance abuse
• Suicidality
• And many other challenging conditions!

You’ll get effective clinical techniques from David M. Pratt, PhD, MSW, a leading expert in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He will teach you how to master the art of applying CBT to a variety of clinical conditions with children and adolescents. In this revolutionary experience as he reveals the latest advances in CBT to get the skills you need to succeed!

Through case studies, interactive discussions, role-plays, and reproducible handouts, you will take away practical CBT strategies to use immediately with any client.

1. Translate CBT theory into practical interventions with children and adolescents.
2. Apply evidence-based CBT treatments to a variety of child and adolescent diagnostic conditions.
3. Integrate “First and Second Wave” CBT skills with more recent “Third Wave” (mindfulness) advances with youth.
4. Develop a CBT-oriented case conceptualization and understand how to effectively collaborate with youth and parents toward targeted, mutually defined treatment goals.
5. Implement effective methods to motivate your most reluctant adolescent clients to engage in their treatment.
6. Combine practical skill building worksheets and structured therapeutic activities to clarify and teach complex CBT skills for a variety of child and adolescent disorders.
7. Utilize CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from most difficult clients.
8. Employ fundamental and advanced evidence-based CBT skills to help your young clients manage depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm behaviors.
9. Master the art of “Socratic Questioning” and “Thought Detective” to help young people examine and modify their “Stinking Thinking.”
10. Develop a deep understanding of recent advances in the neuro-science of trauma and how to re-train the traumatized brain.
11. Teach youth clients how to write a “Trauma Narrative” to resolve discrete and “Complex Trauma.”
12. Master exposure therapy techniques including imagino and in-vivo exposure to resolve obsessive-compulsive rituals.
13. Compile 25 positive parenting skills to modify oppositional-defiant behavior.
14. Utilize evidence-based interventions for ADHD including “Executive Functioning” skills, “School-Home Report Cards.”
15. Determine differential diagnosis methods to identify Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and master CBT interventions for mania.
16. Apply evidenced-based screening, motivational enhancement, level of care determination, and treatment methods for youth with substance use disorder and dual diagnoses.
17. Distinguish adolescent sleep patterns in session and evidence-based CBT interventions for youth sleep disorders.
18. Apply CBT skills to your most challenging cases through respectful, sensitive clinical discussions and structured clinical skill enhancement activities.

Master the Core Skills and Competencies of CBT

• Theoretical Foundations
  • 1st Wave and Behavioral Therapy
  • 2nd Wave CBT Interventions
  • Recent 3rd Wave Advances (Mindfulness)
• Essential Elements of CBT with Youth
  • CBT Psycho-Education with Youth & Parents
  • Transparency & Collaboration
  • Structure of the CBT Therapy Session
  • Socratic Questioning & Guided Discovery
  • Managing CBT Homework
  • Integrating 3rd Wave Advances
• Therapeutic Alliance with Youth
  • Case Conceptualization & Treatment Planning
  • Confidentiality & Parent Involvement
  • Developing “SMART” Goals
  • Motivational Counseling with Youth

CBT for Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ODD, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder and Insomnia

• CBT for Youth Depression
  • The CBT Model of Depression
  • Developmental Manifestations of Youth Depression
  • Psycho-Education for Depression & CBT
  • Mindfulness Practices for Youth Depression
  • Mood Monitoring
  • Behavioral Activation
  • Cognitive Processing: Identify “Stinking Thinking”
  • Cognitive Restructuring: Be a “Thought Detective”
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Assertiveness Skills
• CBT for Anxious Youth
  • CBT Model of Anxiety
  • Anxiety Psycho-Education
  • Mindfulness Practices for Youth Anxiety
  • Cognitive Restructuring: Catastrophic Thinking & Low Self-Efficacy
  • Social Skills Training
  • Gradual Exposure Therapy: Imagino & Invivo Exposure
  • CBT for Social Phobia
  • CBT for Separation Anxiety & Night Fears
  • CBT for Panic & Worry
  • CBT for Perfectionism
• CBT for PTSD
  • Neuro-Science of Trauma
  • UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM-5®
  • CBT Model of PTSD
  • Trauma-Focused CBT
  • PTSD Psycho-Education
  • Mindfulness Practices for PTSD
  • Affective Awareness & Modulation
  • Cognitive Coping
  • Writing a Trauma Narrative
  • In-Vivo Mastery of Trauma Reminders
  • Conjoint Child-Parent Sessions
• CBT for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • CBT Model of OCD
  • Psycho-Education for OCD
  • Declaring war on OCD
  • Parent & Family Involvement
  • OCD Hierarchy
  • OCD Mapping
  • Cognitive Processing & Restructuring
  • Gradual Exposure & Response Prevention
  • Relapse Prevention & Booster Sessions
  • Psycho-Tropic Medication for OCD
• CBT for Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
  • Evidenced-Based Treatments for ODD
  • How to Counter Scapegoating
  • 25 Positive Parenting Skills for ODD
  • Conflict De-Escalation Skills
  • Family Behavioral Contracts
  • Enhancing Family Communication
  • Family Problem Solving
  • Home-School Report Cards
• CBT for ADHD
  • ADHD Evaluation
  • Parent Management Training
  • Home-School Report Cards
  • Teaching Executive Functioning Skills
• Pediatric Bipolar Disorder & Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
  • Rapid Cycling & Diagnosis
  • Child Mania Rating Scale & Assessment Tools
  • Medications
  • Cognitive Model of Bipolar Disorder
  • Identifying Mood Symptoms: Keeping a Mood Chart
  • Managing Mania Symptoms
  • Social Rhythm Therapy
  • Parent Counseling & Involvement
  • Crisis Management
  • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
• Adolescent Sleep Disorders & Insomnia Special Applications for CBT
  • Adolescent Sleep Patterns
  • Two Process Model of Sleep
  • Behavioral Model of Insomnia
  • 5 Factor Cognitive Model of Insomnia
  • Developing & Utilizing a Sleep Diary
  • Sleep Efficiency
  • Stimulus Control Training
  • Improving Sleep Hygiene
  • Cognitive Interventions for Worry
  • Identifying and Altering Sleep Safety Behaviors
• Suicide Assessment & Prevention
  • The CBT Model of Suicide
  • Youth Suicide Prevalence
  • Suicide Risk Factors
  • Suicide Protective Factors
  • Assessment: Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
  • Recent Advances in Safety Planning
  • Behavioral Chain Analysis
  • Reasons for Living
  • Hope Box
  • Distress Tolerance Skills
• CBT for Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders
  • CBT Model for Substance Use Disorders
  • Neuro-Biology of SUD
  • Developmental Model of SUD
  • Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
  • Developing Treatment Goals
  • Level of Care Determination
  • Functional Family Therapy for SUDs
  • Dual Disorders Treatment
• Parent Involvement
  • Confidentiality
  • Evaluation & Treatment Planning
  • Check-In & Check-Out
  • Parent Psycho-Education
  • CBT Homework