Child & Youth Focused | 12 CEUs
2 DAY SKILLS PRACTICE INTENSIVE: SUPPORTING THE ANXIOUS MIND WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Wednesday, May 17, 2023 – Thursday, May 18, 2023 | WINNIPEG, MB AGENDA Establishing parent and child/teen Understanding the neurobiology of buy-in anxiety and its contributors • Gen Z, Generation Alpha, • Helping children and teens pressures, and technostress become experts of anxiety & their • Normal vs. problematic worry own neuropsychology • Transdiagnostic approach to • Identifying and connecting the anxiety “Big Why” • The nature of anxiety • Collaborative agenda setting • Anxiety & the brain • Motivational interviewing & • Anxiety schemas values clarification • 4 key routes to anxiety • Promoting an anxiety busting • How anxiety shows up attitude • What maintains anxiety and the • Parent buy-in anxiety traps to avoid • Addressing pushback • Student IPPs addressing anxiety • Anxiety & neurobiology of trauma Externalizing and exposing anxiety • Externalize and expose anxiety Relationships and effective • The trickster brain communication in addressing anxiety • Identifying & individualizing and trauma henchmen • Rapport building and safety • Building awareness • Effective emotion coaching • Parent management and effective Accepting anxiety & getting unstuck co-regulation • The power of paradox • Building emotional literacy • Acceptance vs. elimination • Responding to anxiety in helpful • Downfall of experiential ways avoidance • Promoting confidence and • Building emotion tolerance (and independence uncertainty tolerance)
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Exercises to promote acceptance of somatic symptoms Building flexibility
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Detaching from anxiety & enhancing the thinking brain • Detaching from anxiety • Interrupting rumination and overwhelm • Strategies to demote anxiety • Building the problem-solving brain (vs. strengthening the anxious one) • Becoming rulers over anxiety • Somatic integration
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Daring and defying anxiety • Functional assessments to individualize treatment • Identifying fear cues and consequences, safety behaviours and functions • Importance of stress inoculation • Setting up exposures successfully • Interoceptive exposure • Interpersonal exposure • Cognitive exposure • Trauma approaches • Habituation (and its traps)
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Maximizing fear extinction and safety learning Promoting an anxiety busting attitude Rewiring the anxious brain Creating an anxiety-busting lifestyle The risk-takers advantage Overcoming fear obstacles Addressing reverse hypnosis Effective responses to anxiety meltdowns and panic attacks Case examples Panic Social anxiety Generalized anxiety School refusal
Thriving from anxiety into the future and beyond • Sustaining success • Success bridges • Breathing • Mindfulness • Healthy anxiety busting habits • Changing baseline arousal levels & regulating the nervous system
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Explain the unique stress our children and teens face Differentiate normal and problematic worries Identify how anxiety manifestsin neurobiology, emotions, and behaviours Explain the key pathways to anxiety Identify the key variables that maintains anxiety and stalls progress Develop and provide client-friendly psychoeducation about anxiety Explain the impact of traumatic stress on the brain and how traumatic memory is stored
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Discuss the shortcomings of traditional approaches Implement rapport-building tips and tools to improve relationships and create safety Engage as an effective anxiety coach Demonstrate skills to elicit buy-in from any child, teen, or parent Utilize strategies that help family members become effective emotion coaches for their children and teens Detect and challenge any of anxiety’s henchmen
Caroline Buzanko, Ph.D., R. Psych. is a licensed psychologist and clinical director of Koru Family Psychology. She has worked with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families for over 20 years, with a focus on maximizing connection, confidence, learning success, and resilience. In her clinical work, she specializes in the assessment and treatment of ADHD, ASD, learning difficulties, anxiety, and behavioural disorders. Through her specialized assessments, she helps parents and teachers understand kids’ strengths, areas of challenge, what makes learning easy, and how to best support them. She also offers therapeutic interventions to support children, teens, and their families.
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