Effective, Brief Interventions for Treating Children and Adolescents, Robert Friedberg, PhD, ABPP (Kaiser Permanente Employees and Current Trainees)

CBT represents an empirically supported front-line psychosocial intervention for pediatric behavioral health problems. Simply, it is a treatment that works and contains proven powerful change-makers. However, for CBT to work best, the change-makers must be faithfully embedded within a theoretically congenial framework and applied with clinical flexibility. Accordingly, this presentation focuses on ways to base brief interventions on case conceptualization and the flexible application of multiple techniques.

The seminar begins with the introduction of a simple rubric for case formulation and then a modular approach to CBT is explained. Recommendations for brief assessment measures to design and track progress are made. Additionally, psychoeducational, behavioral, cognitive, and exposure-based procedures are described and demonstrated.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Apply a parsimonious case formulation rubric
2. Identify multiple metrics for measurement-based care
3. Select multiple cognitive and behavioral intervention for use in clinical practice

Continuing Education Information

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs is approved by the California Psychological Association, Office of Professional Development, to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists in California. The California Psychological Association is authorized by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to approve continuing education providers. The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs designate this live activity for 3 hours continuing education credits for the above-identified licensed professionals