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The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in school-age children is estimated to be 20–30 percent and growing. Many of these psychiatric disorders do not remit spontaneously and appear to become more complex and treatment-resistant with time. This two-day workshop presents guidelines for conducting evidence-based psychotherapy and reviews psychosocial treatments for the most common childhood and adolescent disorders. For each condition, the efficacy of various treatments, the primary treatment targets and components, and a typical treatment plan are presented.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Grasp the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in school-age children
- Have an understanding of a typical case of childhood anxiety disorder and childhood depressive disorder
- Deploy a model for evidence-based psychotherapy
- Understand the central features of empirically supported psychosocial treatments for childhood and adolescent disorders
- Review evidence-based psychotherapy for disorders of action regulation
- Review evidence-based psychotherapy for disorders of language and cognitive development
- Understand the efficacy, primary treatment targets and components and a typical treatment plan for each condition
- Understand the central components of cognitive-behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders and depressive disorders