Shaping Bravery: A Clinical Demonstration of Shared Processes across ACT and CBT that Target Youth Anxiety and Avoidance
Master Clinician Seminar 5 - Shaping Bravery: A Clinical Demonstration of Shared Processes Across ACT and CBT That Target Youth Anxiety and Avoidance
Saturday, November 19, 2022
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
Location: Majestic/Music Box, 6th Floor
Earn 2 CE Credit
Keywords: ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), CBT, Anxiety Recommended Readings: Ehrenreich-May, J., Kennedy, S.M., Sherman, J.A., Bilek, E.L., Buzzella, B.A., Bennett, S.M., & Barlow, D.H. (2018). Unified protocols for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in children and adolescents: Therapist guide. Oxford University Press. Ehrenreich-May, J., & Chu, B.C. (Eds.). (2013). Transdiagnostic treatments for children and adolescents: Principles and practice. Guilford Press. Boone, M., Gregg, J. & Coyne, L. W. (2020). Stop Avoiding Stuff: 25 Microskills to Face Your Fears and Do It Anyway. California: New Harbinger. Whittingham, K. & Coyne, L. W. (2019). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Parents. Elsevier: UK. Kennedy, S.M., & Ehrenreich-May, J. (Eds.). (in press). Applications of the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Children and Adolescents. Oxford University Press (ABCT Series).
Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School Middleborough, Massachusetts
Led by key developers behind leading contemporary behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies (e.g., Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for children and adolescents, this presentation will offer an interactive clinical demonstration of shared principles and processes across these approaches that promote behavior change by targeting maladaptive avoidance behavior in youth. Following a brief introduction regarding how to effectively engage and “move the needle” in maladaptive avoidance, Drs. Coyne and Ehrenreich-May will provide live demonstration of a pragmatic, integrated approach to behavior change in this target with mock youth clients and family members using role-play techniques and hands-on exercises, as well as discuss points of shared and distinct process between cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based approaches to anxiety and maladaptive avoidance behavior with audience members. Techniques to be demonstrated may be categorized as (1) shaping mindful processes (antecedent control strategies), (2) shaping behavior change processes (consequent strategies), and (3) developmentally-sensitive approaches to targeting avoidance behavior via caregiver behavior change. Within these broader process-based categories, Drs. Coyne and Ehrenreich-May will alternatively demonstrate key techniques that engage purposeful attention, emotion regulation, flexible perspective-taking, engage choice, motivation, self-directed and mindful risk-taking to planfully reduce maladaptive avoidance behavior across cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches. The overarching goal of this presentation will be for attendees to leave with an understanding of "how to" use key processes that may be viewed as shared and/or easily integrated across effective therapies for youth with anxiety and maladaptive avoidance.
Outline: This presentation will offer an interactive clinical demonstration of shared principles and processes across these approaches that promote behavior change by targeting maladaptive avoidance behavior in youth. • Main Point 1: The presenters will first discuss how to effectively engage and “move the needle” in maladaptive avoidance. • Main Point 2: Drs. Coyne and Ehrenreich-May will then conduct a live demonstration of a pragmatic, integrated approach to behavior change in this target with mock youth clients and family members using role-play techniques and hands-on exercises. Drs. Coyne and Ehrenreich-May will alternatively demonstrate key techniques that engage purposeful attention, emotion regulation, flexible perspective-taking, engage choice, motivation, self-directed and mindful risk-taking to planfully reduce maladaptive avoidance behavior across cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches. • Main Point 3: The presenters will also discuss points of shared and distinct process between cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based approaches to anxiety and maladaptive avoidance behavior with audience members, as they process role-plays presented.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the session, the learner will be able to:
Identify the importance of targeting maladaptive avoidance in youth.
Discuss two shared processes across Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy for youth that target maladaptive avoidance behavior.
Identify three processes to modify maladaptive avoidance that may be defined as antecedent control strategies, consequent strategies, or caregiver behavior change strategies.
Increase clinical sophistication and skill by discussing two points of shared and distinct process between acceptance-based and cognitive-behavioral approaches to reducing youth avoidance.
Increase clinical skill via observation of techniques that engage purposeful attention, emotion regulation, flexible perspective-taking, engage choice, motivation, self-directed and mindful risk-taking to reduction in maladaptive avoidance.
Long-term Goal: The overarching goal of this presentation will be for attendees to leave with an understanding of "how to" use key processes that may be viewed as shared and/or easily integrated across effective therapies for youth with anxiety and maladaptive avoidance.
Long-term Goal: Specific techniques that may be used over the longer-term fall into one of three specific categories: (a) shaping mindful processes (antecedent control strategies), (b) shaping behavior change processes (consequent strategies), and (c) developmentally sensitive approaches to targeting avoidance behavior via caregiver behavior change.