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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children: A Guide for Therapists (4 CEs)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely researched approaches to treating mental health concerns in children. However, understanding CBT principles and effectively applying them in sessions with children are two very different things. Children are not simply small adults, and interventions designed for adults cannot always be implemented effectively with younger clients without thoughtful adaptation.


This course explores how mental health professionals can implement evidence-based CBT interventions in developmentally appropriate, flexible, and neurodiversity-affirming ways. Participants will review the research supporting CBT for common childhood mental health concerns, including its strengths and limitations, while learning to translate theoretical concepts into practical interventions that meet each child's individual needs.


Topics include assessment and case conceptualization, building therapeutic relationships, structuring sessions, psychoeducation, emotional awareness and regulation, cognitive flexibility, behavioral interventions, and caregiver collaboration. Throughout the course, clinical examples, practical strategies, and reflective exercises demonstrate how therapists can adapt interventions based on developmental level, communication differences, neurotype, environmental factors, and individual treatment goals.


This text-based course includes more than 36,000 words of content, including reflections and case vignettes. It is estimated to take four to four and a half hours to complete, for 4 CE credits.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children: A Guide for Therapists (4 CEs)

$60

Cost

$60 for the course and continuing education certificate. There are no additional fees for this course. The fee offers you lifetime access to the self-guided home study course. Because you maintain lifetime access to the learning materials, no refunds are offered for this course.

Presenter

Dr. Amy Marschall is a clinical psychologist licensed in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and New York, as well as a registered clinical psychologist in New Zealand. She is also authorized to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology through PSYPACT.


Dr. Marschall is the author of I Don't Want to Be Bad: A CBT Workbook for Kids, Parents, and the Professionals Who Help Them and Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy: What Every Mental Health Provider Needs to Know. She has extensive training and clinical experience in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with particular expertise in adapting evidence-based interventions to meet children's diverse developmental, cognitive, emotional, and cultural needs. Her work emphasizes individualized, developmentally appropriate, and neurodiversity-affirming care, including recognizing common pitfalls in traditional CBT approaches and helping clinicians implement interventions that are both effective and responsive to each child's unique circumstances.


Resiliency Mental Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Resiliency Mental Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Learning Objectives

  1. Evaluate the empirical evidence supporting cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for common childhood mental health concerns, including the strengths and limitations of existing research.
  2. Identify developmentally appropriate CBT interventions targeting cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological processes in children.
  3. Apply principles of individualized case conceptualization to select and adapt CBT interventions based on a child's developmental level, neurotype, presenting concerns, and environmental context.
  4. Differentiate between affirming, collaborative CBT practices and potentially harmful or invalidating approaches when working with children and their caregivers.

Target Audience

This is an intermediate-level continuing education course for psychologists, counselors, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, school counselors, and any other mental health provider who provides evidence-based care for children. It is appropriate for clinicians who are newer to implementing CBT with children, as well as experienced providers seeking to strengthen their clinical skills, expand their intervention strategies, and incorporate more developmentally responsive and neurodiversity-affirming practices.

Statement Regarding Conflict of Interest

Dr. Marschall authored the book used in creating this course material. Dr. Marschall and Resiliency Mental Health have no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest to disclose.

Course curriculum


Resiliency Mental Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Resiliency Mental Health maintains responsibility for all programs and content.


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