Preventing Childhood Anxiety and Depression: How to Expand Our Paradigm

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Lynn Lyons, LICSW Related seminars and products

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Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire. She has been in private practice 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children.

Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought-after expert, appearing in The New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets. Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lynn Lyons maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives compensation as an international presenter. Lynn Lyons receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lynn Lyons has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Determine family patterns that support generational anxiety and address them using skill-based interventions. 
2. Apply parental and school-based coaching and collaboration as integral pieces of treatment. 
3. Assess the most common “elimination strategies” that increase anxiety and impair functioning. 
4. Use clinical tools within group sessions, psychoeducational classes, and school-based programs to help more underserved families and effectively treat anxiety. 

Outline

• Identify family patterns that support generational anxiety and address them using skill-based interventions. 
  • How to recognize the 6 cognitive patterns of anxiety and depression 
  • Active assignments for families to create different responses and patterns 
  • Increase prevention through parents’ understanding of emotional family legacy 
• Apply parental and school-based coaching and collaboration as integral pieces of treatment. 
  • Why seeing children alone inhibits prevention (and treatment) 
  • How to shift the common reactive paradigm in schools  
  • The importance of targeting and building concrete skills for prevention 
• Assess the most common “elimination strategies” that increase anxiety and impair functioning. 
  • Common interventions that support anxiety and depression 
  • How to intervene with an active, “on offence” approach 
  • The backwards use of accommodations for anxiety 
• Use clinical tools within group sessions, psychoeducational classes, and school-based programs to help more underserved families and effectively treat anxiety. 
  • Ideas for groups and other formats to focus on parenting prevention 
  • How accurate information and myth-busting strengthen families  
  • Setting the expectations of parental engagement (hint: it’s what parents want) 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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