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Using the ACT Kidflex with Children & Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders

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Oceania
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Language
English
Website
https://tamarblack.com.au/act-for-treating-children-and-adolescents-workshops/
Presenter
Dr Tamar Black, PhD, Educational & Developmental Psychologist

This workshop will teach you how to use ACT with children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. These include Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety/Phobia, Panic Disorder, Separation Anxiety, OCD, Trichotillomania and Excoriation/Dermatillomania.

The ACT Kidflex, a developmentally appropriate adaptation of the ACT Hexaflex for use with children and adolescents, will be taught.

Exposure and Response Prevention, Habit Reversal Therapy, and Compassion-based approaches, and how to use these with ACT will also be included.

You will learn how to provide home tasks for children, adolescents, and their parents/caregivers, along with recommendations for parents/caregivers, teachers and schools.

We will go through cases in greater detail than in the beginners’ workshop.

Educational Objectives:

– Outline how to adapt ACT for children and adolescents.

– Explain the ACT Kidflex and how to use it with children and adolescents.

– Outline how to develop an ACT case conceptualization and create goals for counselling.

– Describe how to develop ACT-based in vivo and imaginal exposure home tasks together with children and adolescents.

– Demonstrate how to use ACT experiential exercises with children and adolescents.

– Develop new experiential exercises and metaphors.

– Outline how to use Compassion-based approaches together with ACT.

– Describe how to use Habit Reversal Therapy together with ACT.

– Explain how to use Exposure and Response Prevention together with ACT.

– Discuss how to use ACT-based in vivo and imaginal exposure exercises in sessions.

– Describe how to engage parents/caregivers, provide feedback and simple home tasks to reinforce ACT.

– Outline how to provide recommendations to teachers and schools.

September 4, 5, 11, 12

AEST 9am - 12pm