Focused Clinical Webinars

The EBTDC aims to enhance the quality of life for children and families by increasing access to those treatments shown to be effective.  To meet provider demand for shorter, more focused training content, we now offer one hour focused clinical webinars (FCWs) on common strategies used across different evidence-based interventions.  EBTDC trainings are open only to staff at OMH-licensed, public, child-serving agencies/programs in New York State. ​
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Past Webinar Archive

Tics & Tourette's Syndrome
​January 19th, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00 pm
Description
Habit Reversal Training has been shown to be an efficacious treatment for Tics and Tourette Syndrome. This presentation will provide education about the diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome and Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder, as well as provide an overview of Habit Reversal Training.
learning objectives
By the end of this one hour session, attendees will accomplish at least one of the following:
  1. Identify and diagnose Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome.
  2. Understand the evidence for and identify the components of the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and/or
  3. Develop strategies for treating a variety of Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome using CBIT methods.
other resources
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​​​Alissa Gleacher, PhD;
​Aleta Angelosante, PhD
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2022


Overcoming School Refusal and Avoidance
September 29, 2022
DESCRIPTION
This training will cover school avoidance and refusal behavior, including differentiating school refusal from truancy, discussing the various causes of school refusal behavior, and how to intervene with the child, family, and school to get the best result.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this training, attendees will accomplish at least one of the following:
  1. Understand School Refusal/Avoidance and its causes
  2. Recognize the clinical manifestations of School Refusal, and/or
  3. Explore the different resources and treatment options clinicians can utilize when treating School Refusal.
OTHER RESOURCES
  • When Children Refuse School: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach (Oxford University Press Treatments that Work Series; Chris Kearney & Anne Marie Albano)
    • Parent workbook
    • Therapist manual
    • Companion manual for school-based professionals
  • Getting your child to say “Yes” to school:  A guide for parents of youth with school refusal behavior (Chris Kearney)
  • Helping your child overcome separation anxiety or school refusal:  A step-by-step guide for parents (Andrew Eisen, et al)
  • School Refusal Behavior in Youth:  A Functional Approach to Assessment and Treatment (Kearney)
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Alissa Gleacher, PhD;
​Aleta Angelosante, PhD​​​

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Strategies to Improve Mental Health Care for Autistic Youth
July 27, 2022
DESCRIPTION
Family acceptance is life-saving for transgender and gender expansive youth (TGEY) and is predictive of TGEY mental health (Olson, Durwood, DeMeules, & McLaughlin, 2016; Olson-Kennedy et al., 2016; Pariseau et al., 2019; Ryan, Huebner, Diaz, & Sanchez, 2009). This training will address the importance of family support as a protective factor against depression, anxiety, and suicidality for transgender youth. Family support may serve as a buffer from mental health challenges so frequently associated with the challenges of growing up in a cis-normative and transphobic world (Malpas & Glaeser, 2017; Simons et al., 2013).  This training will cover the importance of intervening on a family level for youth and the unique benefit of targeting parental behavior and attitudes, while also supporting young people from an intersectional, contextual perspective. Best practices for working with families with TGEY will be explored (Pellicane, Malpas, & Glaeser, 2021).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This training will help participants:
  1. Identify three reasons that family acceptance is important for transgender and gender expansive youth
  2. Understand at least two ways in which intersectional and sociopolitical stressors impact families with TGEY
  3. Learn at least three best practices for working with families with TGEY
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Paige Cervantes, PhD, BCBA
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Family Acceptance for Trans Youth
June 15, 2022
DESCRIPTION
Family acceptance is life-saving for transgender and gender expansive youth (TGEY) and is predictive of TGEY mental health (Olson, Durwood, DeMeules, & McLaughlin, 2016; Olson-Kennedy et al., 2016; Pariseau et al., 2019; Ryan, Huebner, Diaz, & Sanchez, 2009). This training will address the importance of family support as a protective factor against depression, anxiety, and suicidality for transgender youth. Family support may serve as a buffer from mental health challenges so frequently associated with the challenges of growing up in a cis-normative and transphobic world (Malpas & Glaeser, 2017; Simons et al., 2013).  This training will cover the importance of intervening on a family level for youth and the unique benefit of targeting parental behavior and attitudes, while also supporting young people from an intersectional, contextual perspective. Best practices for working with families with TGEY will be explored (Pellicane, Malpas, & Glaeser, 2021).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This training will help participants:
  1. Identify three reasons that family acceptance is important for transgender and gender expansive youth
  2. Understand at least two ways in which intersectional and sociopolitical stressors impact families with TGEY
  3. Learn at least three best practices for working with families with TGEY
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Elizabeth Glaeser, PhD
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Mindfulness: Where Does It Come From and How Can Kids and Teens Get It? 
March 24, 2022
DESCRIPTION
The webinar's content will include an overview of the effects of stress adolescence. It will then detail ways that mindfulness can help adolescents cope with stress and how it achieves this. The presenter will teach methods for teaching mindfulness and applying it to everyday life.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
  1. Understand how stress plays a role in the lives of children and adolescents 
  2. Describe what mindfulness is and how it can help children and adolescents manage stress
  3. Help teach children and adolescents how to employ mindfulness techniques in their lives 
OTHER RESOURCES
  • Willard, Christpher and Saltzman, Amy (eds). (2015). Teaching
    Mindfulness Skills To Kids and Teens. New York: Guildford Press.
  • Snel, Eilne. (2013). Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises
    for Kids and Their Parents. MA: Shambahala Publications.
  • Headspace.Com (Headspace App), https://www.headspace.com
  • OMG I can Meditate App, https://www.omgmeditate.com/meditationapp/
  • Calm.com (has both free and paid mindfulness meditation)
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Alissa Gleacher, PhD;
​Aleta Angelosante, PhD​​​

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2021


Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents
August 18, 2021
DESCRIPTION
In this introductory level webinar we will teach providers how to differentiate between gender identity, gender expression, and assigned sex at birth.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. To learn the difference between assigned sex at birth, gender identity, and gender expression
  2. To understand the diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents
  3. To understand the gender affirming psychosocial and medical intervention that are available to youth with gender dysphoria



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