Effective interventions for anxiety in children and young people.
'Effective interventions for anxiety in children and young people' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is the only training on this topic that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams/organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online. (2-day version also available.)
Executive Summary:
This is such an important topic for several reasons: first, its prevalence, anxiety is the single most common mental health problem in children and adolescents; second, the huge impairment it makes to the quality of life of the child and the child's family; third, the impairment to functioning in terms of concentration and exam performance; fourth, the long term consequences in terms of the schemas that are created by the child about him or herself and about those around them.
Who should attend:
People who attend this course may be in one of two categories:
1. Professionals with a significant degree of clinical skill who wish to develop their expertise in the treatment of anxiety.
2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community or school settings) seeking to develop a common approach and a common level of expertise.
The professional affiliations of people suitable for attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric and school nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and others working in mental health or educational settings.
The course covers a great deal:
Knowing about, understanding, and developing informed empathy for major forms of anxiety: generalized anxiety disorder (where the child has a specific anxiety, for example about school, and this generalizes to cloud virtually every moment); phobias, including social phobia or "shyness"; obsessive-compulsive disorder; panic disorder. This course majors on the first two of these, and touches on the latter two.
- Treatment: Biological factors, including in particular diet digestion and sleep ("the rest and digest cycle").
- Treatment: Behavioral factors, including in particular (A) effective coping strategies, for example against shyness and (B) desensitisation approaches, for example against phobias.
- Treatment: Validation from the professional, and why it is so important in terms of the emotional and personal development of the child. The theory and practice of how to do it.
- Treatment: People factors, including giving best advice to parents and professionals seeking to help.
- Treatment: Cognitive factors, including especially (a) the cooling down of "hot thoughts", and (b) problem solving.
- Treatment: Developing distress tolerance, including distraction methods and also 'radical' methods.
- Treatment: communication, especially involving the use of metaphors, including to reframe troublesome situations.
Teaching methods include lecture, case studies and other exercises, video, and quizzes.
What this course will do for you:
- You will have the feeling of knowing about anxiety in young people, and confidence in recognising it and being able to help with it effectively.
- You will know how easy it is to behave unhelpfully towards anxious young people, and easily avoid doing so.
- You will be able to validate other people - to have them feel good, that their fears are not so strange, and that they can do something about them.
- You will be able to (help people to) solve problems.
- You will be able to (help people to) order their biological functioning in a way that helps regulate their emotional functioning.
- You will be able to (help others to) tolerate distress much better. Not to allow distress to get into a 'vicious spiral'.
- You will be able to offer clear helpful advice to parents and others who seek to help young people.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price (3-day version): $12,400 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $810 per person. Price (2-day version): $9,085 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $540 per person. Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price (3-day version): $7,760* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $510 per person. Price (2-day version): $5,600* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $340 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $160 CAD per day. Option 3: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course in your own organization, under license. This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the face-to-face fee, regardless of whether the course is held online or face-to-face). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 99%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live*
Presentation: 98%
Relevance: 97%
*This online live ratings are taken from the latest running of the course in this format.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'Effective interventions for anxiety in children and young people ' course has received.
"An excellent, informative course. Very well paced and presented ... I feel better prepared to help support children and their families. Thank you."
"This was one of the best and most useful courses I have ever attended. The tutor was great and very engaging. The workbook is very useful. I will be able to use what I have learned for myself, my family and my work. Great!"
