This is a description.

Parents complain about the treatment they receive for their child’s anxiety the most. No one told us what to do. When a family arrives at your office, they have been in the grips of a cult leader called anxiety for years. Many of the things they have been doing are making the anxiety stronger. This workshop will describe how to give families immediate and active solutions from the first session, including the use of front loading to provide critical information and understanding, changing the family’s relationship with anxiety, and creating active interventions that are often the opposite of what they’ve typically been doing.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. Develop active assignments that correct the common cognitive traps that bolster both anxiety and depression.
2. Explain the use of front loading in a first session with a family.
3. Identify avoidant and safety behaviors that strengthen anxiety in families.

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.