What You will Learn

This presentation provides an evidence-based, multidisciplinary framework for treating school avoidance. It details a "surround sound" clinical model that integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and exposure therapy across the child, family, and school systems. Attendees will learn actionable strategies for creating gradual school re-entry plans to help reduce home accommodations and support brave behavior.

  • Identify and define school avoidance, including its clinical presentation and common contributing anxiety-related factors.

  • Explain the "vicious cycle" of anxiety and the roles of negative and positive reinforcement in maintaining school avoidance.

  • Implement a multidisciplinary "surround sound" approach to school re-entry that coordinates support between the child, parents, and school.

Course curriculum

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    Strategies for Managing Anxiety-Driven School Avoidance (recorded)

    • Welcome to your CEU Webinar

    • Course Objectives

    • Strategies for Managing Anxiety-Driven School Avoidance (recording)

    • Stragegies for Managing Anxiety-Driven School Avoidance (slides)

    • Quiz

    • Course Review Survey

Instructor(s)

Daniel Stone

Dr. Daniel Stone is a licensed psychologist who specializes in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and related disorders. Throughout his training and career, Dr. Stone has focused on providing evidence-based assessment and treatment to children, families, and young adults. He earned a BA in psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a doctorate in counseling psychology at Northeastern University. Dr. Stone completed his clinical internship in behavioral psychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University, and his postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral psychology and neuropsychology at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. During that time he provided intensive exposure-based treatment to children with anxiety and related disorders. Dr. Stone was an Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a psychologist at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, where he conducted research and development on electronic therapy interventions, such as telehealth and virtual reality therapies. As Director of Clinical Health Innovation at InStride, Dr. Stone combines his knowledge of psychological assessment and intervention, with his passion for science and technology to drive forward the development and implementation of new therapeutic techniques to combat the pediatric mental health crisis.