Join expert clinician, Dr. Anne Marie Albano, PhD, ABPP for Treatment of Anxiety in Youth at the Transition to Adulthood. This is an exciting online event dedicated to addressing the treatment of anxiety in youth. This event will be held on Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST.
Overview
Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental health problems in youth, with onset in early childhood and increasing prevalence building through to emerging adulthood. Youth with anxiety disorders evidence significant distress, impairments in functioning, and are at high risk for the development of secondary conditions such as depression and substance use by adolescence.
Dr. Albano will present a novel model integrating the core components of effective CBT for anxiety in youth with novel family-based and developmental components designed to address patient-caretaker dependency, role transitions, and attainment of behaviors necessary for greater independent functioning within the contexts that are unique to the youth's age and developmental stage. Exposure, the key treatment component for treating anxiety, is also enhanced through use of ecologically valid situations that are encountered by youth. Dr. Albano will present on ways to breathe life into exposures. A focus on this model for adolescents and emerging adults will be presented.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the tasks of development necessary to master independence from adolescence through to young adulthood
- Understand the way that child anxiety can interact with and shape overprotective parenting, and the consequences on continued anxiety and stalled development
- Learn evidence-based models for parental involvement in youth-focused cognitive behavioral treatment to address anxiety
- Apply strategies for addressing parental over involvement and youth dependency including family communication and problem solving
Speaker
Dr. Anne Marie Albano is a professor of medical psychology, a clinical psychologist and board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology. In addition to serving as Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at 3 Columbus Circle, Dr. Albano also conduct research and train residents, fellows and psychology postdoctoral fellows and interns.
Dr. Albano's research is focused on the development and testing of psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders, and in understanding the impact of these disorders on the developing youth. Dr. Albano was a PI of the "Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS)", a randomized clinical trial evaluating treatments for childhood anxiety disorders (see Walkup, Albano et al., 2008; NEJM) and for the "Treatments for Adolescents with Depression (TADS)" randomized clinical trial (TADS Team, JAMA, 2004).
