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Digital Seminar

CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents: Evidence-based Strategies to Target Specific Behaviors and Diagnosis


Speaker:
Amanda Crowder, MSW, LCSW
Duration:
6 Hours 20 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Copyright:
Mar 07, 2024
Product Code:
POS054235
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Parents and caregivers often arrive in treatment seeking solutions for children who are struggling behaviorally or emotionally. As therapy progresses, some clients make early gains but later plateau or regress, leaving clinicians uncertain about next steps.
 
In this training, Amanda Crowder, LCSW, presents a practical, strategy-focused workshop designed to expand clinicians’ CBT toolkits for children and adolescents with complex presentations.
 
Participants will explore creative, activity-based CBT interventions that enhance engagement, build regulation, and strengthen family collaboration.
 
Through case examples, experiential exercises, and applied learning, participants will be able to:

  • Improve outcomes for children and adolescents presenting with disruptive behavior, trauma, anxiety, and self-injurious behaviors.
  • Integrate developmentally appropriate CBT interventions that can be individualized across diagnostic and temperamental profiles.
  • Support children’s emotional regulation, relational functioning, and academic participation through activity-based strategies.
  • Facilitate stronger therapeutic alliances and family collaboration to enhance motivation, satisfaction, and continuity of care.

 
By the end of this program, participants will have a set of concrete, developmentally informed CBT interventions to support effective treatment planning and improve engagement with complex or avoidant young clients.

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

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Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

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Handouts

Speaker

Amanda Crowder, MSW, LCSW's Profile

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Amanda Crowder, MSW, LCSW, is co-author of the best-selling book CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: Over 200 Worksheets & Exercises for Trauma, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression & Conduct Disorders. Amanda is an expert at moving evidence-based interventions into practical methods for application and moving research into action. She has created and adapted evidence-based interventions to work with the most challenging children, adolescents, and families in the most difficult situations. By helping to establish the Trauma Informed Care initiative within Carolinas Medical Center, Amanda has proven her leadership in moving clinical concepts into practice. Amanda runs a private practice in Charlotte, NC, and continues to work for Carolinas Medical Center within a crisis center and virtual mental health emergency room. Her specialties include depression, anxiety, trauma, behavioral issues, and family issues. Amanda uses realness, humor, and passion to build rapport with clients and audiences. 

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amanda Crowder maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amanda Crowder is a member of the ISSTD.

 

 

 


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Formulate strategies to develop a therapeutic alliance that engage children and adolescents in easy, creative and effective therapeutic cognitive behavioral activities.
  2. Integrate evidence-based CBT techniques to modify and change maladaptive behaviors.
  3. Evaluate negative self-talk, thoughts, assumptions and core beliefs.
  4. Choose emotional regulation activities that help children & adolescents strengthen their emotional language to reduce dysregulation.
  5. Use approaches to engage families in the treatment of children and adolescents.
  6. Utilize the CBT thought record and mood charting in order to enhance data-based decision making.

Outline

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Brief Overview

  • CBT model and tools of change
  • CBT’s influence on the evolution of other models
  • Cultural and developmental limitations
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Enhance the Structure of CBT Sessions Concrete Strategies to:

  • Build a therapeutic relationship
  • Manage resistance and avoidance
  • Differentiate between cognitive distortions and core beliefs
  • Identify and disempower problematic negative beliefs
  • Tailor identification and expression of feelings
  • Provide psychoeducation and skills for parents
  • Practice an “easy-to-follow” case conceptualization & treatment planning model

MUST-HAVE CBT TECHNIQUES, CASE EXAMPLES, ACTIVITIES, EXERCISES, AND HANDS-ON PRACTICE FOR:

Trauma

  • Cognitive narratives and trauma stories
  • Utilization of play
  • Build resilience
  • Symptom relief and coping mechanisms

ODD, Conduct Disorder, Disruptive Behaviors, & Anger

  • Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
  • Anger, aggression, and dysregulation
  • Communication
  • Build alliances and positive relationships
  • Emotional vocabulary and regulation

Anxiety, Depression & OCD

  • Assessment, diagnosis, and medications
  • Externalize “bad” worry
  • Identify body reactions
  • Assertiveness skills
  • The need for control

Mood Disorder

  • Mood charting
  • Reframe thoughts
  • Create peace and gratitude
  • Body mindfulness and control

Self-Injurious Behaviors & Suicidality

  • Assessment and treatment strategies
  • Self-esteem and confidence building
  • Identify negative self-talk
  • Problem solving and coping skills
  • Foster motivation

Parental Supports

  • Attachment
  • Receive and give love
  • Choices as a problem-solving skill
  • Set and keep limits and boundaries
  • Structure and routine
  • Rewards and punishments
  • “Time outs” for parents

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • School Counselors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • Educators
  • Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Speech-Language Pathologists

Reviews

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Overall:      4

Total Reviews: 1

Comments

Margaret E

"End of training felt rushed. Unfortunate to have less time on more troubling cases examples. Handouts were very low resolution and seemed unusable due to lack of quality."

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