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Join renowned author, speaker, and expert on anxiety, Paul Foxman, PhD, and become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) — exclusive to this offer.

A letter from Paul Foxman, PhD:

Dear Colleague,
Having treated children and adolescents for over four decades, I have never seen an anxiety epidemic quite like this.

Whether it's divorce and family breakdowns, school stress and expectations, isolation, bullying coupled with overexposure of media, violence, perceived threats from misinformation...

Keeping up with the new challenges young people face can be overwhelming.

But YOU can be the go-to clinician to set them up for success — for life — by inspiring them to practice new self-regulation skills as a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA).

Join me for my new certification programme and I'll walk you through easy-to-follow case examples and clinical vignettes of:
 
Separation Anxiety Disorder • Panic Disorder • Generalized Anxiety Disorder • Obsessive-compulsive disorders (including skin picking and hair pulling) • Social Anxiety Disorder • Selective Mutism • Specific phobias • Trauma- and Stressor-related disorders

Gain confidence helping your most anxious children utilising cognitive-behavioural, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions.

Plus, get 8 hours of incredible bonus content — including 44 strategies, practice exercises, and printable handouts that you can use with children of any age — as well as your Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) certification.

Best of all, your first year of certification is on PESI. That's usually worth £77.99... yours FREE with registration!

With your new credentials, your colleagues, employers, and clients will know that you've invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of treating anxiety in children.

Get your certification now and set yourself apart from other therapists as the clinician prepared to treat childhood anxiety in a multitude of ways, for clients of any age or stage of development.

Your partner in education & success,
Dr Paul Foxman

Certification Training for Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents


A £719.89 Value
Yours Today for Only £199.99 (VAT Inclusive)!
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Earn up to 22.0 CPD Hours and become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA)
— at no additional cost to you!
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Here's what your colleagues have to say about this one-of-a-kind certification course:
 
"This is by far the best training I have taken in years! I learned so much useful information and many techniques."
— Karen D., Social Worker
"Dr. Foxman was an excellent presenter. I didn't want the course to end."
— Lashaunn S., Occupational Therapist
"Chock full of content. Very affirming and inspirational."
— Lee M., Counsellor
"I truly enjoyed this PESI training. It was easy to follow... and I feel confident that I can use what I learned in this seminar in my work with both children and adults."
— Karen K., Social Worker
"Great, humorous & informative! Fun, too! I learned wonderful new interventions."
— Kathleen Gabryel, Social Worker
 
Here's What You'll Learn

Join world-renowned author Paul Foxman, PhD — who studied and trained at Yale and Vanderbilt Universities — and get proven strategies to effectively treat anxiety disorders in children & adolescents. Earn up to 12.75 CPD hours in 8 on-demand video modules.

You'll walk away with evidence-based strategies on the three ingredients of anxiety — biological sensitivity, personality traits, and stress overload — so you'll know exactly what to say and do in any situation when treating clients with anxiety. You'll cover:
 
Sources of Anxiety and Treatment Overview
 
  • What research tells us about therapy effectiveness applied to children
  • How anxiety develops in children
  • Biological sensitivity
  • Anxiety personality style
  • Stress overload
  • Treatment goals, strategies and recommendations
  • Behavioural health recommendations

Interventions: Stress Management and Anxiety-Regulation Skills
 
  • Symptoms
  • Sources
  • Solutions
  • Breathing practices
  • Mindfulness practices for children
  • Yoga games
  • Martial arts
  • "Baby Buddhas" meditation for preschoolers
  • Other approaches to self-regulation

School Recommendations, Medication, DSM-5® Classification, and Interventions for Separation Anxiety Disorder
 
  • Recommendations for schools
  • Pros and cons of medication
  • DSM-5® anxiety disorders: current updates
  • Separation anxiety
  • Therapeutic exposure
  • Strategies to help parents let go
Interventions for Generalised Anxiety and Panic Disorder
 
  • Generalised anxiety
  • Why we worry
  • 9 strategies for replacing worry with alternative cognitive habits
  • Panic disorder
  • Diagnosis and treatment success rate

Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
 
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorders: expanded classification
  • Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
  • Excoriation (skin picking)
  • Body dysmorphia

Interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder and Selective Mutism
 
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Selective mutism
  • Self-esteem issues and treatment
  • Social communication skills
  • Group therapy

Interventions for Phobias and Stressor — and Trauma-Related Disorders
 
  • Specific Phobias
  • Diagnosis and examples
  • Virtual reality exposure
  • Stressor and Trauma-related disorders
  • Attachment disorders
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Acute stress disorders
  • Trauma-related disorders, like PTSD
  • New frontiers in trauma treatment
Click here for course objectives and outline | Click here for information about Paul Foxman
 
Sign up now to get a complete Child Anxiety Bonus Set that you won't get anywhere else. Usually £299.05...Yours FREE with today's purchase.
 
You'll get...
 
  • Bonus video content on the latest clinical solutions — in art therapy, family therapy, and anxiety medication updates
  • Dozens of practice exercises and printable handouts for any client, at any stage of development
  • Paul Foxman's award-winning eBook, The Clinician's Guide to Anxiety Disorders in Kids & Teens
  • Electronic card deck with over 50 solutions to the problems kids are facing today
  • One FREE year as a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA)

Art Therapy: Creative Interventions for Children with Trauma, Anxiety, ADHD and More!
with Pamela G. Malkoff Hayes, MFT, ATR-BC | Click here for information about Pamela G. Malkoff Hayes

The PESI module therapists call "great, humorous & informative" and say, "gave a lot of great ideas to use with clients right away!"

You'll learn how to implement therapeutic art interventions and fresh new strategies that are sure to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients. No art experience is necessary - just an openness to try something fun and creative!

Earn up to 6.25 CPD hours at the end of this bonus module — at no additional cost to you.
Yours FREE with registration!

Helping Anxious Families: Active Tips That Work and Common Traps to Avoid

It's common for clinicians to get caught up in content (what children worry about) instead of focusing on the how and why of anxiety—all the more detrimental with a missed OCD issue! In this section, internationally-recognized psychotherapist Lynn Lyons will show you how (and why!) to sidestep this content trap and move away from all-too-common elimination strategies.

Earn up to 1.75 CPD hours at the end of this bonus training — at no additional cost to you.
Yours FREE with registration!

Anti-Anxiety Medication in Children and Adolescents
with Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, NCC, DCMHS, LMHC | Click here for information about Stephanie Sarkis

Approximately 60% of children and adolescents in treatment will be prescribed medication for anxiety, so it is essential that clinicians know what anti-anxiety medications are available and the medications' benefits and side effects.

Join Dr. Stephanie Sarkis as she shares the types of anti-anxiety medications, black box warnings, and the importance of clinicians keeping open lines of communication with prescribers — helping the client and their parents get the best treatment possible for their child.

Earn up to 1.25 CPD hours at the end of this bonus video — at no additional cost to you.
Yours FREE with registration!

The Clinician's Guide to Anxiety Disorders in Children & Teens

International anxiety expert and bestselling author Paul Foxman, PhD, utilises his four decades of clinical experience to make the most comprehensive, hands-on guidebook available. This resource provides all the tools needed to assess and treat even the most severe cases of anxiety in today's generation.

Includes therapy scripts, printable assessment worksheets, yoga poses, meditations, breathing games and mindfulness activities, as well as medication natural remedies and homeopathic tools.

Yours FREE with registration!

Melt Anxiety and Relax Card Deck for Children: 44 Strategies Using Art, CBT and Mindfulness

Get dozens of fun, easy, and effective practices to help anxious and worried young minds. Using the best strategies from CBT, Mindfulness and Art Therapy, children can learn how to regulate their thoughts and emotions and find ways to express themselves in a healthy way.

Also, it comes with 12 tips and strategies for caregivers to help relieve anxiety and worry. Best for ages 4-12.

Yours FREE with registration!

Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) Certification Made Easy

Your registration includes one FREE year of certification as a Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) — which is waiting for you whenever you complete this course, around your own schedule!

Yours FREE with registration!
The PESI Training Therapists Trust on Their Journey to Become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional

A £719.89 Value
Yours Today for Only £199.99 (VAT Inclusive)!

Get clinical solutions to treat children with anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma-related disorders, & more using cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness, art therapy, & family systems interventions.
Click here for course objectives and outline


REGISTER NOW
Your colleagues can't say enough good things about our childhood anxiety experts!
 
"That was one of the most amazing trainings. Pamela Malkoff Hayes is simply amazing. Her knowledge of art and play therapy is un-paralleled."
— Andrew M., Children's Therapist
"Incredibly knowledgeable and relatable trainer. I will seek out other courses that Dr. Paul Foxman instructs."
— Alison G., Counsellor
"This course clarified a lot of things that I've often thought but did not know how to express."
— Susan A., Occupational Therapist
"This course was exceptional! Thank you, Lynn Lyons! You are a truly gifted and down-to-earth presenter."
— Nicole A., Speech-Language Pathologist
"Overall experience was superb! Pamela Malkoff Hayes was professional, engaging and made the training accessible and very organized."
— Ewa S., Counsellor
 
 

Becoming a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) is the easiest way to change your career forever. This certification will set you apart from other therapists as the clinician prepared to treat childhood anxiety in a multitude of ways, for clients of any age or stage of development.

With your certification, you'll become the expert in:

  • DSM-5® classification of Anxiety Disorders
  • Differential diagnosis (i.e. OCD, Panic Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder)
  • Co-occurrence of depression
  • Assessment of physical symptoms of different types of anxiety
  • When to refer for medication consultation with a prescriber
  • Psychoeducation on the physiological basis of anxiety to include: physiological responses (fight/flight/freeze) and neuroscience of anxiety (amygdala and cortex contributions and interactions)
  • Teaching the client cognitive skills sets that address disrupting rumination, negative and catastrophic thinking, cognitive errors and erroneous beliefs, perfectionism and related procrastination, changing self-talk, and managing worry
  • Treating the behavioural attributes of the anxious client that address avoidance and its impact on anxiety, reassurance seeking, creating successful exposure experiences, memory reconsolidation, and motivation to change

 

 

Certification Made Simple

 

It's never been easier to become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA):

  • Step 1: Watch this online course.
  • Step 2: Complete the CPD test(s) and instantly print your certificate(s) of completion.
  • Step 3: Submit your certificate(s) of completion and professional license to Evergreen Certifications.*

 

That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

*Professional standards apply.
Click Here to Learn More About CCATP-CA Certification

 

Frequently Asked Questions

It's normal for children to feel nervous about changes in their lives. But when stress and anxiety start to control a child's behaviour (like acting aggressively or always avoiding eye contact), it's our job to provide them with age-appropriate solutions to self-regulate and manage their emotions.

This course is packed full of clinical strategies to treat children with anxiety — and other disorders like OCD and selective mutism — with an emphasis on creative psychotherapy involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioural, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions.

It also includes instruction on art therapy, family therapy, and anxiety medication updates, plus dozens of practice exercises and printable anxiety management worksheets for children of all ages, at any stage of development.

By the end of this certification course, you will better understand how anxiety develops in children allowing you to treat your anxious clients more effectively. Plus, you'll have new credentials to prove your expertise, at no additional cost to you.

This childhood anxiety certification course is what you need to build lasting rapport with anxious children and inspire them to practice new self-regulation skills. Not just in your office or during a session — but anytime, anywhere, they start to feel anxiety creeping in.

Whether you're seeking new evidence-based interventions to help children relax and decrease maladaptive behaviours...

OR effective treatment options for OCD, separation anxiety, social anxiety, and phobias...

OR want to know more about the efficacy of prescription drugs for treating anxiety symptoms in children, this course provides superior content to fit in around your own schedule.

This course may be right for you if you are a psychotherapist, counsellor, social worker, psychologist, teacher, school administrator, nurse, occupational therapist/OTA, speech-language pathologist, marriage and family therapist, physician, or any other helping professional who works with children.

Yes! Once you register for this self-directed course, the materials are yours to keep, access, and review at your own pace, around your own busy schedule.

With over 20 hours of online video content, insightful commentary, interventions, and examples, you will have compelling new clinical strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CPD hours! Earn your certification!

But if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, contact us at 01235 847393. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

 

Certification Training for Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents

A £719.89 Value
Yours Today for Only £199.99 (VAT Inclusive)!
REGISTER NOW
Earn up to 22.0 CPD Hours — and become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) — at no additional cost to you!
Click here for course objectives and outline
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