EMERGING ADULTS: CLINICAL STRATEGIES TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE, DEFEAT ANXIETY AND SUCCEED IN THE REAL WORLD – KIMBERLY MORROW & ELIZABETH DUPONT SPENCER
Do you have clients in their late teens and early twenties who struggle to transition into successful adult lives? Do they struggle to hold a job or stay in college. Are they experiencing anxiety or depression and coping through video games or alcohol and drug addiction?
Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth Dupont Spencer, LCSW-C will give you the tools to engage your client in charting his or her own path to living a fulfilling and independent life. Learn creative strategies to help your client develop skills to fall and get back up while developing a sense of confidence in themselves and their relationships. You will also learn how to avoid specific pitfalls that can hamper treatment success.
- Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
- Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
- Implement goals for life – skills.
- Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
- Falling off the developmental progression
- Develop life-skills goals for functioning
- Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure
- Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills
- Practice challenging automatic thoughts
- Termination and relapse prevention
