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Digital Seminar

Helping the Anxious Generation: A Power-Packed Menu of Evidence-Based Interventions to Ease Anxiety and Build Resilience in Teens and Young Adults


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Speaker:
Ashley Smith, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
14 Nov, 2024
Product Code:
POS059919
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

There’s no doubt that a record number of teens and young adults are on the brink of crisis.

But it takes a special skillset to help this hurting and anxious generation.

This is your rare opportunity to learn the latest and most effective techniques directly from Dr. Ashley Smith, an award-winning psychologist, sought-after speaker, researcher and author of The Way I See It: A Psychologist’s Guide to a Happier Life!

Drawing on evidence-based clinical interventions and 20 years of specialising in youth anxiety, Dr. Smith designed this fast-paced, strategy-rich training to help you feel confident and competent in addressing this growing need.

In this training, you will:

  • Go beyond diagnostic labels and criteria
  • Learn rapport-building strategies that work with reluctant and resistant teens and young adults
  • Dive into the neurology of anxiety in the 15–25-year-old brain
  • Gain hands on experience in the implementation of cognitive, mindfulness, relaxation, and behavioural strategies
  • Leave with a menu of intervention options and a clear framework for deciding when to use which tool

Purchase now and prepare to meet the needs of this hurting generation that desperately needs your help.

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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.



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This online program is worth 3 hours CPD.



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Ashley Smith, PhD's Profile

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Dr. Ashley Smith is a licensed clinical psychologist and recognized expert in anxiety and related disorders. She has worked in children’s hospitals, an anxiety specialty clinic, and private practice, providing evidence-based treatment for anxiety and OCD.

An adjunct faculty member at Kansas City University, Dr. Ashley has extensive experience training and supervising mental health professionals. She has authored peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and two books, including Childhood Anxiety Disorders. A long-time member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, she was honored with their Special Recognition Award in 2023.

She regularly presents workshops and trainings at local and national levels, focusing on the practical application of cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and applied neuroscience to improve clinical outcomes. She is also the co-founder of Peak Mind. The Center for Psychological Strength, an organization dedicated to making psychological tools more widely accessible.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ashley Smith is the co-founder of Peak Mind, has an employment relationship with Kansas City University, and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Ashley Smith receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ashley Smith is a member of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Choose mindfulness techniques, cognitive interventions, and relaxation strategies to use with teens and young adults.
  2. Formulate metaphors for explaining key concepts and intervention rationales to teens and young adults.
  3. Evaluate a framework for clinical decision-making when working with anxious youth.

Outline

From Normative to Clinical Anxiety

  • Today’s teens: generation-specific predisposing factors
  • Anxiety disorders – does diagnosis even matter?
  • Two pathways in the brain and implications for intervention
    • The amygdala
    • The prefrontal cortex
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Supporting Anxious Youth

  • Rapport-building approaches
  • Rapid stabilisation approaches for crisis intervention
  • Conceptualising anxiety: Body, brain, behaviour
  • Unhelpful stances for providers, parents, caregivers:
    • Accommodating
    • Demanding
  • Supportive stance: SPACE Protocol
  • Cultural and identity considerations

INTERVENTIONS

  • Breath retraining and visual imagery exercises
  • 10 must-use mindfulness strategies
  • Thinking strategies: Cognitive restructuring and more
  • Exposure: in vivo, imaginal, interoceptive
  • Values-based and committed actions
  • Behavioural experiments and more
  • Experiential activities and case studies

Put it All Together: A Decision-Making Framework

  • Design interventions – when to use what
  • Enhance treatment effectiveness
    • Lifestyle factors
    • Boost motivation and treatment adherence
  • Trouble shooting when you get stuck

Target Audience

  • Clinical Psychologists
  • Counsellors
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • School Counsellors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • Nurses
  • Educators

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