Class 4: Visual, Active & Art-Based CBT Lessons for Children & Adolescents | Sunday, September 21, 2025 | 8:30am-4:30pm, E.S.T.
Build an impactful library of child-friendly strategies for coping with anxiety, frustration & anger, self-regulation & impulse-control, and negative-depressive thinking.
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Build an impactful library of child-friendly strategies for coping with anxiety, frustration & anger, self-regulation & impulse-control, and negative-depressive thinking.
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***TO REGISTER AND SAVE ON MULTIPLE CLASSES, CLICK A QUANTITY BELOW***
Build an impactful library of child-friendly strategies for coping with anxiety, frustration & anger, self-regulation & impulse-control, and negative-depressive thinking.
____________________________________________________________
***TO REGISTER AND SAVE ON MULTIPLE CLASSES, CLICK A QUANTITY BELOW***
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:
• State the theory and rationale for teaching cognitive behavioral coping skills to child clients with parents or caregivers present.
• Create original visual-active coping skill lessons to improve clients’ management of targeted emotions, impulses, or behaviors.
• Teach to young clients at least 3 different coping skill lessons from each module: frustration tolerance/anger management, anxiety/stress, impulse-control, and negative/depressive thinking.
Class Outline:
• Introduction to CBT and its relation to social skills training therapy
• “The Toilet Bowl of Doom”: the CBT thought/feeling/behavior cycle
• How CBT integrates with or interferes with depth psychotherapy (dynamic, Jungian, art and play therapy models
• Incorporating CBT skill building into the family system
• Difficulties engaging children in CBT and the imperative to make CBT coping skills training visual and active
• “Art Therapy in Reverse”: visual & active CBT coping skills lessons targeting individual client issues
• Simple as A, B, C, D: 4 steps to writing concrete and memorable coping skills lessons
• CBT inspired social-coping skills lessons divided into four curriculum modules:
• Frustration tolerance and anger management coping skill lessons: Your Road to Happiness, The Dinosaur Technique, Emotional GPS, Big Deal-O’Meter, Expectation Cliff, Anger Volcano, The Bendy Flexible Tree, Change Your Mind on Purpose, Accept Stinky Reality, Assertiveness Triptych, The Power of I, Problem-Solver’s Worksheet, If-Then Bridge, Obstacle Course – Make a Move!
• Impulse control and self-regulation coping skill lessons: How is Your Engine Running?, Scan Yourself and Get Back to Medium, Body Scans and Escape Cards, Keep Your Calm Captain in Charge of Your Ship, Calm Delivery to Hyper Parts, In Control-Out Of Control: Cut Your Marionette Strings, Invite the Outcome You Desire
• Anxiety and stress coping skill lessons: Your Personal Power Project, Nature’s Alarm, Boss Back Your Worry Monster, The Truth Shall Set You Free, Clouds in the Sky Fly By = Mindfulness, The Mindful Minute, Surfing the Time-Stream, Get in the Now, Turn the New Thing Old, Turn the Corner and Try New Things
• Negative/depressive thinking coping skill lessons: Turn Black and White Thinking to Shades of Gray, Try on Rose-Colored Glasses, Holding on or Letting Go of Negativity, The Burr on the Beach, Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?, “I’m Not Going to Let This Ruin My Day!”, The Survivor Versus the Navigator, The Decider Versus the Handler