Roadblocks in CBPT with children

What you will be able to do

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.

Course objectives

1. Identify common pre-treatment roadblocks and apply shaping strategies to foster engagement
2. Navigate confidentiality challenges with transparent, validated communication
3. Manage non-compliance, aggression and refusal with limits, reinforcement and planned ignoring
4. Support nonverbal / minimally verbal children and scaffold verbal expression
5. Encourage imaginative play through predictability and relationship-building
6. Promote generalization to home and school; adapt CBPT for virtual delivery

Course requirements

• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Clinical Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists
• Mental Health Clinical Nurse Practitioners

The delivery of the certificate of attestation at the conclusion of the course will be tied to the evaluation of participants requirements. In the absence of the requirements, the course hours will not be certified.

Curriculum  ·  1 lesson + Learning Test  ·  1h 02min

Instructor

Susan M. Knell, Ph.D.

Under Susan M. Knells scientific direction · CBPT Research Center

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.