CBT for Youth Depression: Bring Hope and Healing to Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with an Evidence-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach

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Dr. David M. Pratt, Ph.D., MSW Related seminars and products

Western New York Psychotherapy Services

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David M. Pratt, Ph.D., MSW, is a New York State Licensed Psychologist with 40+ years’ experience working with children, adolescents and families. Dr. Pratt is in private practice at the Western New York Psychotherapy Services in Amherst, NY. He is presently on faculty with the University at Buffalo, School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education and a member of New York State, Office of Mental Health Advisory Board on Evidence-Based Treatments for Youth. He was the Principal Psychologist at the Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University at Buffalo and Adjunct Professor/Lecturer, University at Buffalo Counseling, School and Educational Psychology department. Dr. Pratt has conducted numerous trainings in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at local, state, national and international forums. He is the author of CBT Toolkit for Depressed, Anxious and Suicidal Children and Adolescents (PESI Publishing, Inc., 2019) and Advanced CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: Promoting Resilience, Positive Emotions and Personal Growth (in press, PESI, Publishing, Inc.).

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: David Pratt is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: David Pratt has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Objectives

1. Employ fundamental and advanced evidence-based CBT skills to help your young clients manage depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm behaviors.
2. Combine practical skill building worksheets and structured therapeutic activities to clarify and teach complex CBT skills to depressed youth.
3. Apply effective methods to motivate your most apathetic adolescent clients to engage in their treatment.
4. Develop a CBT oriented case conceptualization and understand how to effectively collaborate with teens and parents toward targeted, mutually defined treatment goals.
5. Master the art of “Socratic Questioning” to help young people examine and modify their cognitive distortions.
6. Engage parents and enhance parent-youth communication and cooperation with problem solving skills and “win-win” solutions to common disputes.

Outline

Get Client Buy-In: Engagement and Motivational Enhancement Strategies

• Build a therapeutic alliance with young people
• Collaborative evaluation, treatment planning and case conceptualization
• Identify and build upon strengths
• Motivational counseling with youth
• Identify and work towards goals

The CBT Paradigm: Making it Simple to Understand and Use

• Modify cognitive distortions and build social confidence
• Self-Monitoring: feelings, behaviors and thoughts
• Behavioral activation: get active again
• Cognitive restructuring: learn to be a good “thought detective”
• The art of “Socratic Questioning”
• Problem solving: overcome “learned helplessness”
• Social skills training: build social competence and confidence
• Effective use of CBT homework assignments
• On-office therapeutic structured activities
• Learning CBT skills via hypothetical situations

Advanced CBT Techniques: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Mindful meditation practices for youth: relax your mind
• Cognitive processing therapy
• Decipher and manage “ambiguous situations”
• Collaborative empiricism: conducting real-life experiments
• Exposure therapy for behavioral activation and social skill development
• ”Acceptance & Commitment Therapy”: know and be yourself
• Coping plans for stressful situations

Parent Involvement Strategies: Build a Therapeutic Alliance with Families

• Don’t jeopardize your relationship with the client
• Involve parents in:
  • Initial evaluation
  • Treatment planning
  • Case conceptualization
  • Treatment sessions
  • Homework assignments
• Enhance family communication and problem solving skills
• ”Win-Win” solutions for parents and teens

How to Handle Crisis Situations: Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention

• Conduct a behavioral chain analysis
• Self-harm trigger situations
• Validate reasons for self-harm and suicide
• Use distress tolerance and “Third Wave” CBT skills to manage a crisis
• Coping cards for crisis situations
• Develop a CBT skills based suicide prevention safety plan

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