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3-Day Intensive Workshop Helping Anxious Kids: Powerful Approaches for Breaking the Worry Cycle


Speaker:
Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Duration:
3 Full Days
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC053655
Brochure Code:
PLW61149
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $599.99 - Now:  $99.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Anxiety is a very persistent master. When it moves into families, it takes over daily routines, schoolwork, and recreation. Depression is often close on its heels.
The most frequent comment I hear from anxious families is “no one told them what to DO.” After multi-session assessment or months of appointments, they still didn’t have a clear plan or understanding of HOW to respond when anxiety shows up.

Imagine being able to offer families immediate and effective tasks to weaken anxiety’s grip!

What if, during a first session, you could give your clients the information and a road map to change the powerful patterns of anxiety disorders?

Join Lynn Lyons, LICSW, internationally recognized psychotherapist, author and speaker, in an intensive 3-day training. She will teach you HOW to interrupt anxiety’s cognitive patterns with simple, process-based strategies. You’ll focus on concrete and often counter-intuitive strategies that normalize worry for families and provide an “umbrella approach” that applies to all anxiety disorders.

Leave this 3-day workshop with new techniques to break the anxiety cycle:

  • Untangle complicated presentations of anxiety
  • Combat the challenges of somatic symptoms
  • Avoid the big mistakes with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • The importance of prioritizing interventions
  • … and MORE!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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Counselors - Texas Counselors

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Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

This program has been approved for 19.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Approval #4540.


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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

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Social Workers - Colorado Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This course has been approved for 19 continuing education hours. 

COLORADO PARTICIPANTS ONLY: If you did not answer YES to be reported to the Colorado Chapter of the NASW on the evaluation, please contact cepesi@pesi.com and provide the full title of the webcast, speaker name, date of live broadcast, your name and your license number in the email.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

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Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

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Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 19.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 22.75 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 19.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 19.0 credits. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Massachusetts Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity has been certified by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions, for LMFT professional continuing education. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 19.0 contact hours. Certification #: PC-033861.


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 22.75 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Educators/Teachers

This course is designed to qualify towards your professional development requirement. The course is 19 clock hours in length.


New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

19 Actual Professional Development Hours. MEDS-PDN, powered by PESI, Inc. is a registered New Jersey Professional Development Provider with the NJ Dept of Education.


Indiana Educators

19 Professional Growth Points are available for full attendance at this seminar per the Indiana Department of Education standards. 


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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

This course contains 19 hours of live continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.


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Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists

Approved for 22.75 continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 19.0 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Other Professions

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Speaker

Lynn Lyons, LICSW's Profile

Lynn Lyons, LICSW Related seminars and products


Lynn Lyons, LICSW, is an internationally-recognized psychotherapist, author, and speaker with a special interest in interrupting the generational patterns of anxiety in families.

She is the author of several books and articles, including (with Reid Wilson) Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents and the companion book for kids Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids. She is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux and has several online programs for professionals, parents, and children.

She maintains a private practice in Concord, New Hampshire where she sees families whenever she's not on the road teaching.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lynn Lyons maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives compensation as an international presenter. Lynn Lyons receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lynn Lyons is a contributing author for Psychotherapy Networker.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Outline

A Process-Based Approach to Anxiety

  • Don’t fall into the Content Trap:
    • Process of anxiety matters more than the content of the child’s fears
  • Patterns of Worried Families;
    • Avoidance
    • Accommodation
    • Reassurance
    • Overprotection
  • ”Don’t Do the Disorder”:
    • How to avoid mirroring and supporting the anxiety disorder

Four Critical Concepts: The Foundation of a Skill-Based Approach

  • Content versus Process:
    • Moving kids and parents out of the details of worry and into a process based approach that applies to all anxiety disorders
  • We Are Eliminating Nothing:
    • Getting rid of symptoms doesn’t work with paradoxical anxiety
  • How to Get on Offense:
    • Changing the relationship to worry
  • Creating Playful Connection:
    • Offer solutions to Anxiety’s demands

Laying the Groundwork: What Families Need to Know Upfront

  • Getting Out of the Anxiety Cult:
    • Breaking the Anxiety Culture – escaping the high demands of school, home, social life …
  • Create a new framework for families to separate from generational anxiety
  • The importance of psychoeducation:
    • Explanation activates treatment
  • Cognitive Patterns:
    • Recognize anxiety and interrupt common thought patterns
      • Global
      • Catastrophic
      • Permanent

Putting It Together: Seven Puzzle Pieces

  • Expect Worry
  • Talk to Worry
  • Get Uncomfortable and Unsure ON PURPOSE
  • Breathe
  • Know What You Want
  • Bridge Back to Your Successes
  • Take Action on Your Plan

Creating Interventions and Homework: Tasks that Teach

  • Role Playing: The importance of experiential learning and practice
  • Using Rewards and Consequences: The ins and outs of parent coaching
  • Examples of My Favorite Assignments:
    • Wall of Flexibility
    • Spaghetti Challenge
    • Photo Album Investigation
    • Ten Good Things … and many more

Schools, Accommodations, and Parents

  • Creating Effective Behavioral Plans
  • Skill-Based Goals versus Avoidance-Based Plans
  • Case Studies and Common Issues

When it’s not just Anxiety …
Untangling Complicated Presentations with Three Frames for Treatment and Prevention

  • Experience is Variable: Creating Flexibility in a Rigid System
  • The Value of Parts: Skills to Combat Global Thinking
  • Action Counts: Counteracting the Passivity of Anxiety and Depression

The Challenge of Somatic Symptoms

  • Taking Full Advantage of Relaxation: Are we missing opportunities? (Yes!)
  • The Safety Behavior Trap: Common Ways We Exacerbate Physical Symptoms
  • Common Diagnoses with Anxious Children (eg GI issues, insomnia, headaches)
  • The Mind-Body Connection: What Kids (and Adults) Should Know

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Importance of Process

  • Myths and Current Research
  • The Biggest mistakes therapists make with OCD
  • Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis
  • Creating a Family Plan
  • The benefit of direct language and psychoeducation for families

Anxiety, ASD, OCD: A Tangled Web

  • The Executive Overload Model
  • Attention and Focus?
  • Internal versus External Focus
  • The importance of prioritizing interventions

When There’s a Trauma History

  • What Modifications are Needed?
  • A Cognitive Approach and Complex PTSD?
  • The Concept of Differentiation

 

Objectives

  1. Demonstrate how to interrupt patterns of anxious parenting to decrease the modeling of family anxiety.
  2. Implement active assignments for families that correct the common cognitive traps that bolster both anxiety and depression.
  3. Articulate the difference between content-based and process-based interventions as it relates to treatment.
  4. Develop a therapeutic toolbox to include playfulness, humor, games, collaboration, and active homework assignments to reduce anxiety symptoms.
  5. Create interventions that focus on interrupting the process of OCD in families rather than the content of the OCD.
  6. Incorporate role playing and active techniques in session with families to facilitate emotional expression and increase engagement in therapy.
  7. Teach families strategies to decrease the impact of and connection between anxiety, GI symptoms, headaches, and sleep issues.
  8. Implement the “7 puzzle pieces” of a skill-based treatment plan for decreasing symptoms of anxiety.
  9. Minimize the use of avoidant and safety behaviors that strengthen anxiety in families.
  10. Demonstrate to families how the worry and anxiety process works in the brain and body to maximize effectiveness of psychoeducation.
  11. Provide psychoeducation to parents and children and the relationship to quality of sleep and symptoms of anxiety.
  12. Incorporate relaxation skills and techniques to effectively treat somatic symptoms of anxiety.
  13. Consider the differences in clinical presentation of OCD, ADHD and other anxiety diagnoses in order to best inform choice of treatment interventions.
  14. Adapt a treatment intervention strategy to meet the clinical needs of children with trauma histories.
  15. Assess the impact of anxiety disorders on attention and focus in order to more accurately diagnose and intervene with anxious children.
  16. Adapt a process-based treatment approach to clients with ASD with the goal of increasing flexibility and social engagement.
  17. Write effective behavioral plans and IEP goals for use in schools.
  18. Create at least three homework assignments that experientially promote flexibility and an offensive approach to worry.

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Educators, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other helping professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      5

Total Reviews: 60

Comments

Marilyn R

"Amazing course. I look forward to taking the advanced class."

Catherine C

"Wonderful training! I am already using these techniques and they are quite impactful!"

Jennifer H

"Love this training!!!!! Has given great insight and direction for working with anxiety in clients "

Tina P

"This was AMAZING!!!"

Michelle P

"I have taken many PESI courses...Lynn Lyons is the BEST presenter that I have had...I have never learned so much in a single training"

Janine K

"Absolutely wonderful! So informative! I can apply what I learned into my practice with current clients."

Nancy W

"This was a great course. I learned a lot of applicable information."

Alexandra Z

"Lynn Lyons was dynamic and engaging, thank you!"

Haylee B

"Loved it! So useful for my practice"

Edie S

"Lynn Lyons was absolutely one of the best presenters I've ever had!"

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