User-Friendly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for OCD and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in children and adolescents, affecting about 13 percent of youngsters. CBT can help as many as 80 percent of these children successfully overcome OCD and anxiety.

This workshop is designed to provide practitioners, from beginners to seasoned clinicians, with in-depth training and consultation in the application of CBT for OCD and anxiety disorders. Participants will learn empirically sound, developmentally sensitive, appealing, and practical CBT approaches that are feasible in clinical settings and designed to optimize motivation and treatment compliance in children and adolescents. Strategies for building treatment readiness, collaborating with parents, managing anxiety in school, working with reluctant children, relapse prevention, and challenges in treatment will be discussed. Teaching tools and forms for assessment and treatment will be presented.

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Aureen Pinto Wagner, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of neurology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation. As a clinical child psychologist, she is internationally recognized for her unique Worry Hill approach to making cognitive-behavioural therapy accessible to youngsters. Dr. Wagner has also written several books for professionals, including Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Manual, Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children, Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Its Treatment, and What to Do When Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions.