TREATING ANXIETY DISORDERS
IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting children and are frequently misinterpreted as behavior problems. Participants will learn how to apply effective cognitive and behavioral skills, structured around universal evidence-based treatment strategies. This prescriptive approach identifies and matches specific client characteristics with the most compatible interventions. We will orient around the themes of modifying resistance, habituation, long-term belief change, pattern disruption and securing the family system. The day will be divided into two sets of tasks: those for the therapist and those for the client. Therapist tasks will include a getting-to-work partnership, curiosity, finding hooks, homework and enlisting parents. Client tasks will include self-monitoring, personifying the anxiety, challenging worry content, tolerating distress and doubt, letting go of safety crutches, playing with anxiety, taking on the bully and generating homework. While treatment protocols for specific disorders will not be reviewed, participants can apply these skills for separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

14 APS CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING POINTS

Reid Wilson Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson is an international expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders, with books translated into seven languages. He is author of ‘Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks’ and ‘Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks’ and is co-author with Edna Foa of ‘Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions’, and co-author of ‘Achieving a Comfortable Flight’, a self-help package for the fearful flier. He designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines’ first national program for the fearful flier. Dr. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America for twelve years. He served as Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders from 1988-1991. His free self-help website - www.anxieties.com serves 500,000 visitors (26 million hits) per year. He has been an invited presenter at eight International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. His published videos include ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’ (American Psychological Association); ‘Initial Interventions in Panic Disorder: a Demonstration’ (University of Connecticut); ‘Treatment of Panic Disorder’ (Erickson Foundation) and ‘Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’ (Erickson Foundation).

Further information about Dr. Wilson at www.anxieties.com

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