Using the ACT Kidflex with Children & Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders

This workshop will teach you how to use ACT with children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. These include Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety/Phobia, Panic Disorder, Separation Anxiety, OCD, Trichotillomania and Excoriation/Dermatillomania. The ACT Kidflex, a developmentally appropriate adaptation of the ACT Hexaflex for use with children and adolescents, will be taught.

Exposure and Response Prevention, Habit Reversal Therapy, and Compassion-based approaches, and how to use these with ACT will also be included. How to provide home tasks for children, adolescents, and their parents/caregivers will be taught, along with recommendations for parents/caregivers, teachers and schools.

We will go through cases in greater detail than in the beginners’ workshop.

Educational Objectives:

– Outline how to adapt ACT for children and adolescents. 

– Explain the ACT Kidflex and how to use it with children and adolescents.

– Outline how to develop an ACT case conceptualization and create goals for counselling.

– Describe how to develop ACT-based in vivo and imaginal exposure home tasks together with children and adolescents.

– Demonstrate how to use ACT experiential exercises with children and adolescents.

– Develop new experiential exercises and metaphors.

– Outline how to use Compassion-based approaches together with ACT.

– Describe how to use Habit Reversal Therapy together with ACT.

– Explain how to use Exposure and Response Prevention together with ACT.

– Discuss how to use ACT-based in vivo and imaginal exposure exercises in sessions.

– Describe how to engage parents/caregivers, provide feedback and simple home tasks to reinforce ACT.

– Outline how to provide recommendations to teachers and schools.

Target Audience: 

This is an intermediate to advanced workshop suitable for professionals working with young people, who have previously done a two-day introductory ACT workshop.

This is a live interactive online workshop of 12 hours in total, consisting of 4 sessions of 3 hours each, over two weeks:

Sydney/Melbourne – AEST: 9am-12 pm September 4, 5 & September 11, 12
Auckland – NZST: 11am-2pm September 4, 5 & September 11, 12
Los Angeles – PDT: 4pm-7pm September 3, 4 & September 10, 11
Toronto – EDT: 7pm-10pm September 3, 4 & September 10, 11

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Workshops will be recorded and a link for the recording will be sent to participants for on-demand viewing.

Pricing:

Standard: $AUD 605 inc GST

Full-time Students: $AUD 517 inc GST (evidence of full-time student status must be emailed to info@tamarblack.com.au for approval prior to registration)

Refund Policy: No refunds will be provided.