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The course: Emerging Adults: Clinical Strategies to Gain Independence, Defeat Anxiety and Succeed in the Real World by Kimberly Morrow and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer

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• Course language: English

Do you have clients in their late teens and early twenties who struggle to transition into successful adult lives? Do they struggle to hold a job or stay in college. Are they experiencing anxiety or depression and coping through video games or alcohol and drug addiction? 

Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth Dupont Spencer, LCSW-C will give you the tools to engage your client in charting his or her own path to living a fulfilling and independent life. Learn creative strategies to help your client develop skills to fall and get back up while developing a sense of confidence in themselves and their relationships. You will also learn how to avoid specific pitfalls that can hamper treatment success.

1. Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
2. Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
3. Implement goals for life – skills.

• Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain 
• Falling off the developmental progression 
• Develop life-skills goals for functioning 
• Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure 
• Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills 
• Practice challenging automatic thoughts 
• Termination and relapse prevention