David M. Pratt – CBT for Youth Depression

When depressed young people come to your office it’s often not by choice. Worried parents, unsure if this is just a phase or something more, come to you with kids who feel they’ve been brought against their will.

David M. Pratt – CBT for Youth Depression

Purchase Clients-In: Motivational Enhancement and Engagement Strategies

• Create a therapeutic alliance of young people
• Collaborative assessment, treatment planning, and case conceptualization
• Strengthen your strengths and use them to your advantage
• Youth Motivational Counseling
• Set goals and work towards them

The CBT Paradigm: Easy to Understand and Use

• Enhance cognitive abilities and increase social confidence
• Self-Monitoring your feelings, thoughts and behaviors
• Behavioral activation: get active again
• Cognitive restructuring: Be a good learner “thought detective”
• The art and science of “Socratic Questioning”
• Problem solving: “learned helplessness”
• Social skills training: Develop social competence, confidence
• Use of the internet effectively CBT Homework assignments
• On-Activities for office therapeutics
• Learning CBT Simulations to help you learn skills

Advanced CBT Techniques: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, (MBCT), and Acceptance and Complement Therapy (ACT).

• Meditation practices that promote mindfulness for youth: relax your mind
• Cognitive processing therapy
• Manage, decipher, and interpret “ambiguous situations”
• Collaborative empiricism: conducting real-life experiments
• Exposure therapy for Social skill development and behavioral activation
• ”Acceptance & Commitment Therapy”: know and be yourself
• Coping strategies for stressful situations

Parents Involvement Strategies: Create a Therapeutic Alliance With Families

• Don’t jeopardize your relationship with the client
• Include parents in:
  • Initial evaluation
  • Treatment planning
  • Case conceptualization
  • Sessions for treatment
  • Assignments for homework
• Improve family communication and problem solving skills
• ”Win-Win” solutions for Parents and teens

How to manage crisis situations by yourself-Prevention of suicide and Harm

• Perform a behavioral chain analysis
• Self-harm trigger situations
• Reasons valid for self-Harm and suicide
• Tolerating distress is key “Third Wave” CBT Skills needed to handle a crisis
• Coping cards for Situations in crisis
• Develop a CBT Safety plan for suicide prevention based on skills

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When depressed young people come to your office it’s often not by choice. Worried parents, unsure if this is just a phase or something more, come to you with kids who feel they’ve been brought against their will. They often feel angry and disillusioned, and they reject the notion of depression. Fear of stigmat, hopelessness and distrust in treatment can lead clients to withdraw from their psychotherapists, leaving them frustrated and looking for help elsewhere. for There are many ways to engage them. Even the most experienced clinicians know the difficulties of explaining complex treatment concepts to young people in a way that they can understand and then incorporate into their daily lives. This all leads to many depressed teens not participating fully in the therapy that they desperately need. These are the real consequences. If left untreated, depressed teens run the risk of becoming self-absorbed.-Harming and suicidal behavior.

They are in desperate need of your assistance.

How can you overcome resistance to treatment, create a therapeutic alliance and instill hope among depressed children? How can you overcome their apathy? How can you make complex treatment concepts accessible to youth and make them feel comfortable, in control and part of this process?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which has been extensively researched, is widely accepted.CBTIt has been proven to be an efficient approach. for Treatment of depression in adolescents

The key benefits of watching include:

• Learn how to motivate your most challenging young clients.
• Translate complex CBT Converting concepts into practical and simple-To-Skills that are easy to integrate into adolescents’ lives.
• Teach your clients the basics of coping and teach them how to use it. “Socratic Questioning” They can be helped to examine and change their cognitive distortions.
• Discover how to effectively involve parents in their child’s treatment with real-World methods to improve family communication, problem solving and other aspects of family life “win-win” Common parent solutions-Youth conflicts
• Fundamentals “Second Wave” Do you have evidence?-Based CBT Skills and the most recent “Third Wave” Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Complement Therapy (ACT), are some of the latest advances in helping clients to relax their minds, accept others and manage stress.
• Structured exercises make what you’ve learned immediately applicable to your practice and instantly useable upon your return to the office.

With the help of a proven skill, transform the lives of young clients who are feeling depressed.-Based CBT approach!