• Cognitive Behavior Therapy

for Anxiety in Children

What is cognitive behavior therapy?

•CBT is evidence based therapy
• Cbt focus on changing cognitive distortions, behavior,
and emotions.
•Help to problem solving
•Improvement in functioning and quality of life.
CBT for children
•Integrating cognitive developmental level into CBT
•Minor changes to procedures or questioning can reveal
dramatic decreases in the age at which children achieve
important mile stones
•Social perspective taking
•Empathic and emotional understanding
•Clear simple instructions with familiar material from their
every day lives
•Concrete and story based representations
•Finding appropriate metaphor for child’s developmental level
What makes for an
effective treatment?
Cognitive,
biological, and
environmental
Models of factors
psychopathology interaction over
Effectiveness of
and time in
intervention
Developmental maintaining
models the
psychopatholo
gy during
childhood
CBT Techniques
(behavioral)
•Play therapy
•Trauma focused CBT
•Modeling
•Restructuring
•Exposure
•Parent child interaction therapy
•Fear thermometer
•Thought record
•
Cognitive techniques
•Target to maladaptive thoughts
•Negative schemas
Problem solving
techniques
•Problem solving skills
•Assertiveness
•Decision making skill
•Conflict resolution skills
Cognitive restructuring
techniques
•Focused on helping the client change irrational beliefs
•Logical or rationalizing techniques
•Reframing
•Using humor and irony
Coping techniques
•Relaxation
•Hypnosis
•Meditation
•Mindfulness
•Breathing exercise
•Role play
CBT can help to treat:
•Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
•Anxiety and Mood Disorder
•Anxiety with Autism Spectrum Disorder
•Trauma and PTSD
CBT can help:
CBT can help children understand how thoughts and emotions
affect behavior and how changing their thoughts and emotions can
change this behavior and the way they feel.
CBT is a safe, effective therapy that can help kids with a wide
range of conditions and concerns.
Thank you