12.0 CE Hours Available

Description

This workshop will provide concrete and often counter-intuitive strategies that normalize worry for families. It will provide an “umbrella approach” that is applicable to all of the anxiety disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Lyons will also describe simple, process-based strategies for interrupting patterns of thinking that inadvertently support the avoidance of anxious symptoms.

Objectives

Participants will be able to describe:

• How to coach adults to interrupt their own patterns of anxious parenting
• How to develop active assignments for families to correct the common cognitive traps that bolster anxiety and depression
• The difference between content-based and process-based interventions
• How to use playfulness, humor, games, collaboration, and active homework assignments
• How to create interventions that interrupt the process rather than the content of OCD in families

Topics Covered

A Process-Based Approach to Anxiety

• Three Critical Concepts
• Patterns of Worried Families
• Don’t do the Disorder

The Seven Puzzle Pieces

• Getting out of the Anxiety Cult
• The Importance of Frontloading
• Cognitive Patterns: The GCPs
• Creating Interventions and Homework

Schools, Accommodations, and Parents

• Creating Effective Behavioral Plans
• Case Studies and Common Issues

The Three Frames for Treatment and Prevention

• Experience is Variable
• The Value of Parts
• Action Counts

The Challenge of Somatic Symptoms

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The Importance of Process

• Myths and Current Research
• Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis
• Creating a Family Plan
• Ideas and Interventions: Ways to Teach the Skills
• Current Research on Medications