Using CBT with Children (November 2021)

November 1, 2021 to December 6, 2021

Registration Deadline: November 15, 2021

This interactive online course provides an orientation and overview of how to use cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills in clinical work with children.

If you work with children in your practice, it is important to develop the skills necessary to adapt CBT for use with this age group. And there are few postgraduate educational opportunities that focus on this specific skill set.

This course is led by child psychology experts who help you adapt CBT principles to clinical work with children. They provide an overview of CBT goals and techniques, and an in-depth review of behavioral and cognitive interventions. Course content covers how to conduct assessments, develop case conceptualizations, modify cognitive and behavioral techniques for use with children, measure progress with validated tools, and address relapse prevention. Faculty also discuss how to incorporate parents and caregivers into treatment.

These enhanced skills at working with children are ideal for clinicians in mental health, pediatrics, primary care, social work, nursing, psychology and more.

The course includes an array of resources, videos and other materials to guide you through your learning experience. All content and assignments can be completed whenever your schedule allows. Weekly call-in times allow faculty to hear and respond to your questions directly, and an interactive discussion board lets you post your own questions and interact with peers from across the United States and around the world. Plus, the course is accessible via desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet.

Course materials are available beginning on November 1, 2021 and all online course work must be completed by December 6, 2021.

Pricing

Registration Deadline: November 15, 2021

Physicians and Doctoral-level Professionals: $445.00
Other Professionals: $345.00

Cancellation Policy

Refunds will be issued for cancellation requests made during the first week of the course, but an administrative fee of $25.00 will be deducted from your refund.  Cancellation requests made during the second week will receive a credit toward a future offering of the same course.  No refunds or credits will be granted after November 15, 2021.

Q&A with Faculty

Week Start Date

Date of Q&A

Time of Q&A

      Faculty Name

Week 1: 11/1/2021

11/8/2021

1:00 pm EST

Julie Edmunds, PhD

Week 2: 11/8/2021

11/15/2021

1:00 pm EST

Elana Kagan, PhD

Week 3: 11/15/2021

11/22/2021

1:00 pm EST

Michael Schonberg, PhD

Week 4: 11/22/2021

11/29/2021

 1:00 pm EST

 Aude Henin, PhD

Target Audience

This program is intended for:

  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • General and Family Practice Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Social Workers
  • Residents
  • Fellows

Learning Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate understanding of key principles of CBT when provided to children.
  • Explain methods for assessment and case conceptualization when working with children within a CBT model.
  • Recognize essential cognitive and behavioral techniques used in providing CBT to children.
  • Explain factors that distinguish the application of CBT to children as compared to adults.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. McLean Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    McLean Hospital designates this Live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 11.00 Nursing Contact Hours

    Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 13, sections 13, 14, 14A, 15 and 15D and Chapter 112, sections 74 through 81C authorize the Board of Registration in Nursing to regulate nursing practice and education.

    This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00) for 11.00 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: Educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count towards 50% of the nursing requirement for ANCC accreditation.

  • 11.00 Social Workers

    The Collaborative of NASW, Boston College, and Simmons College Schools of Social Work authorizes social work continuing education credits for courses, workshops, and educational programs that meet the criteria outlined in 258 CMR of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Social Workers

    This program has been approved for 11.00 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D60420

  • 11.00 Participation

    This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.

    Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.

  • 11.00 Psychologists CE Credit

    The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

    This offering meets the criteria for 11.00 Continuing Education (CE) credits per presentation for psychologists.

Registration opens: 
10/25/2020
Course closes: 
03/07/2022
Event starts: 
11/01/2021 - 1:00am EDT
Event ends: 
12/06/2021 - 11:59pm EST
Cost:
$445.00
Rating: 
0

The following course materials will be available each week:

  • Didactic presentations with embedded role plays
  • Self-assessments
  • Live "chat with the experts"
  • Discussion boards
  • Readings
  • Worksheets, handouts, and references

Topics and faculty subject to change without notice.

Week 1

Overview of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Goals and Techniques

  • Provide an overview of cognitive-behavior therapy goals and techniques.
  • Introduce and illustrate several well-established CBT techniques.
  • Discuss developmental adaptations to CBT across childhood and adolescence.

Participants should be able to understand the following key elements:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key components of CBT case formulation when working with children.
  2. Recognize essential elements of the assessment phase of CBT.
  3. Identify how to structure a typical CBT session.
  4. Understand effective methods for introducing the CBT model of treatment to children.

 

Week 2

 Development of Goals for Therapy

  • Development of goals for therapy
  • Thought-feeling monitoring
  • Review of Cognitive Interventions

Participants should be able to understand the following key elements:

  1. Identify critical considerations when developing treatment goals.
  2. Recognize effective methods for teaching children to monitor thoughts and feelings.
  3. Understand four key cognitive interventions used in working with children.

 

Week 3

Bringing Cognitive and Behavioral Techniques Together

  • Behavioral interventions.
  • Bringing cognitive and behavioral techniques together.

Participants should be able to understand the following key elements:

  1. Understand relaxation training techniques.
  2. Recognize how behavioral activation and pleasant activity scheduling are incorporated into CBT treatment. 
  3. Identify how to apply most commonly used exposure treatments.
  4. Understand how safety behaviors can interfere with exposure treatments.

 

Week 4

Relapse Prevention and Booster Sessions

  • Relapse prevention and booster sessions.
  • Similarities and differences between adult and child CBT.
  • Developmental issues in child CBT.

Participants should be able to understand the following key elements:

  1. Understand techniques used within CBT for relapse prevention.
  2. Recognize key differences between adult and child applications of CBT.
  3. Identify essential developmental factors to consider when providing CBT to children.

 

Course Director(s)

Aude Henin, PhD

has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Clintara, Alkermes;.
has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Oxford University Press;.

Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Planner(s)

Aude Henin, PhD

has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Oxford University Press;.
has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Clintara, Alkermes;.

Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jane Pimental, MPH

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

David Rubin, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Susan Sprich, Ph.D.

has a financial relationship (Other) with Springer;.
has a financial relationship (Other) with Oxford University Press;.
has a financial relationship (Other) with Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT);.
Speaker(s)

Dikla Eckshtain, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Julie Edmunds, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Melanie Farkas, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Aude Henin, PhD

has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Clintara, Alkermes;.
has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with Oxford University Press;.

Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Elana Kagan, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jamie Micco, PhD

has a financial relationship (Professional Services) with New Harbinger Publishers;.

Kaila Norman Mack, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Timothy Petersen, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Available Credit

  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. McLean Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    McLean Hospital designates this Live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 11.00 Nursing Contact Hours

    Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 13, sections 13, 14, 14A, 15 and 15D and Chapter 112, sections 74 through 81C authorize the Board of Registration in Nursing to regulate nursing practice and education.

    This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00) for 11.00 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: Educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count towards 50% of the nursing requirement for ANCC accreditation.

  • 11.00 Social Workers

    The Collaborative of NASW, Boston College, and Simmons College Schools of Social Work authorizes social work continuing education credits for courses, workshops, and educational programs that meet the criteria outlined in 258 CMR of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Social Workers

    This program has been approved for 11.00 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D60420

  • 11.00 Participation

    This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.

    Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.

  • 11.00 Psychologists CE Credit

    The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

    This offering meets the criteria for 11.00 Continuing Education (CE) credits per presentation for psychologists.

 
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Course Director(s)

David H. Rubin, MD, reviewer
Jane Pimental, MPH

Planners

David H. Rubin, MD, reviewer
Jane Pimental, MPH
Susan E. Sprich, PhD, psychologist reviewer, moderator
Aude Henin, PhD
Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, PhD

Disclosure Information

In accord with the disclosure policy of McLean Hospital as well as guidelines set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, all people in control of educational content, including speakers, course directors, planners, and reviewers, have been asked to disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests of both themselves and their spouses/partners over the past 12 months, as defined below:                             

Commercial Interest

The ACCME defines a “commercial interest” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. For more information, visit www.accme.org.

Financial relationships

Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit.  Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.  ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

Relevant financial relationships 

ACCME focuses on financial relationships with commercial interests in the 12-month period preceding the time that the individual is being asked to assume a role controlling content of the CME activity. ACCME has not set a minimal dollar amount for relationships to be significant.  Inherent in any amount is the incentive to maintain or increase the value of the relationship. The ACCME defines “’relevant’ financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest.

Conflict of Interest

Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of a commercial interest with which he/she has a financial relationship.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, have reported financial relationships with an entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services (relevant to the content of this activity) consumed by, or used on, patients:

Aude Henin, PhD
Consultant: Clintara; Alkermes
Royalties (Book Author): Oxford University Press

Jaime Micco, PhD
Royalties: New Harbinger Publishers 

Susan E. Sprich, PhD, Psychologist Reviewer
Royalties (Co-Author): Oxford University Press; Springer
Honoraria (Associate Editor): Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)

All other individuals including course directors, planners, reviewers, faculty, staff, etc., who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity have, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, reported no financial relationships related to the content of this activity.


Hardware/Software Specifications

This internet-based CME activity is best experienced using Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3+, Safari 4+. This Web site requires that JavaScript and session cookies be enabled. Certain activities may require additional software to view multimedia, presentation, or printable versions of the content. These activities will be marked as such and will provide links to the required software. That software may be: Adobe Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Windows Media Player.

Optimal System Configuration

Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher

Minimum Requirements

Windows PC:500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit