Roadblocks in CBPT with children
Working in CBPT with children often means charting unmarked territory — from a shy child refusing to let go of a parent’s hand, to balancing confidentiality with caregiver collaboration. This course shows how to read between the lines when a child’s story doesn’t match the adults’, and how to validate the child’s inner world.
About this course
Working in CBPT with children often means charting unmarked territory — from a shy child refusing to let go of a parent’s hand, to balancing confidentiality with caregiver collaboration. This course shows how to read between the lines when a child’s story doesn’t match the adults’, and how to validate the child’s inner world.
Through real scenarios you’ll learn to transform resistance into engagement: encouraging nonverbal children to express themselves, transferring coping skills to everyday life, supporting imaginative play, and prioritizing interventions when multiple diagnoses or parental mental-health challenges are present.
What you will gain
Curriculum · ~1h
Who it is for
Instructor
Susan M. Knell, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, author of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (1993) and co-founder of the CBPT Institute in Rome.
Enroll in this course
Advanced (Second Level) · APA-published, evidence-based · lifetime access · certificate
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Psychologists and psychotherapists · Psychiatrists · Clinical and licensed independent social workers · Licensed professional counselors · Marriage and family therapists · Mental health clinical nurse practitioners.
A certificate of attendance is issued on completion, tied to the final learning test.
What you'll learn
- ✓Identify common pre-treatment roadblocks in CBPT, such as separation anxiety and mismatched child-parent goals
- ✓Manage non-compliance, aggression and refusal to leave the playroom with evidence-based techniques
- ✓Support nonverbal or minimally verbal children and encourage imaginative play
- ✓Promote generalization of therapeutic gains to home, school and community
- ✓Adapt CBPT techniques for virtual delivery (teleplay)