Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents with pain, somatization or medical concerns

Gain practical CBT and acceptance and commitment Therapy (ACT) tools to help children and adolescents manage pain and physical symptoms, improving their mental health and daily functioning.

Mental health professionals aiming to deepen their understanding and application of CBT with children and adolescents related to physical health symptoms will benefit from this webinar. Participants will explore the application of the thought-feeling-behaviour (TFB) cycle to examine the mind-body interplay as it relates to symptoms like pain, headaches, or other medical symptoms. This webinar also introduces concepts of ACT to help therapists enhance effectiveness when medical symptoms are ongoing or chronic.

The training will cover practical strategies for helping children and adolescents to live their best lives with physical symptoms and learn strategies of how to soothe these symptoms (when applicable) and take care of their health rather than resisting or avoiding.

Learning objectives:

• Identify when physical health and mental health symptoms may be presenting and cycling for children and adolescents.
• Learn key cognitive, emotional and behavioural strategies to draw on when clients describe pain or other physical/medical symptoms, to support them to break their TFB cycles.
• Learn when acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) strategies may be particularly helpful for certain medical presentations.
• Apply key ACT strategies with their clients to support them to live well even when chronic pain or medical symptoms will be ongoing.

Register now to enhance your expertise in CBT for pediatric pain and somatic symptoms — empower your young clients to live well despite physical challenges.

Please note: This webinar is module 4 of our Certificate in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for children level 2: Clinical applications to specific cases program. However, participants can also register for it as a stand-alone training to enhance their therapeutic skills.

The Canadian Psychological Association recognizes this training for 6 hours of continuing education. These hours are also applicable towards the required 40 hours of formal training in CBT as part of the CACBT certification process.

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