PSYCHIAT 769: CBT with Children, Adolescents and their Families 1

This paper is a specialist clinical paper in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for children, adolescents, and their families. The aim of this paper is to produce participants who have in-depth practical and applied skills and knowledge about CBT for anxiety and depression with NZ children, adolescents and their whānau. We will establish a firm foundation in the theory and key concepts, look at what is needed to utilise CBT approaches with young people and their families, learn intervention approaches for depression and common anxiety presentations, and how to adapt CBT approaches in group and alternative settings. This paper is most suitable for practitioners from CAMHS, education services, specialist services and private practice. As a specialist clinical paper we maintain small class sizes so that students are given more personalised support.