Golda Ginsburg Recorded Webinar - School-based Interventions for Students with Anxiety (February 8, 2024)

Original Air Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024

11:00 AM- 12:30 PM Eastern/ 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central/ 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Mountain/ 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific

1.5 CE Credits Awarded

$15 Student ABCT Members / $25 ABCT Members / $35 Non-Members

All prices listed in US currency

Abstract:

Pediatric anxiety disorders are common, with prevalence rates ranging from 9-20% (Bitsko et al., 2022; Costello, Egger, & Angold, 2005). Excessive symptoms of anxiety that are impairing but do not meet diagnostic thresholds are also common (Costello & Shugart, 1992; Rapee et al., 2012) and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant increases in anxiety (and other youth mental health problems; Ravens-Sieberer et al., 2021; Castagnoli et al., 2020). Moreover, it is well established that untreated anxiety has a broad range of negative effects on academic, social, and familial functioning (Swan & Kendall, 2016). Despite the high prevalence of impairing anxiety, the majority of these youth remain unidentified and untreated. One approach to address the service utilization gap, is to deliver interventions in schools. School-based interventions improve access to care –especially for youth in rural and under-resourced communities where mental health specialists are sparse. This webinar will present the basic components of school-based interventions for youth with anxiety. The talk will also focus on efforts to enhance the capacity of non-mental health specialists, such as school nurses and teachers, to assist youth with anxiety.

Presenter Biography:

Golda S. Ginsburg, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry at University of Connecticut School of Medicine, has been developing and evaluating interventions for youth with a range of psychiatric disorders for over 25 years. A primary focus of her research has been on identifying the best approach to treat and prevent pediatric anxiety disorders—one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in youth. Dr. Ginsburg was a leader of the landmark NIMH-funded multisite comparative trial examining the relative efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, their combination, and pill placebo for pediatric anxiety disorders. She was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the multi-site follow up study examining the long-term outcomes of youth treated in this study. Dr. Ginsburg’s current work focuses on the dissemination of evidenced-based treatments for pediatric anxiety (as most youth with anxiety do not receive treatment). For instance, with funding from NIMH and the US Department of Education, she developed a modular CBT intervention for school clinicians and conducted a large RCT trial to evaluate its effectiveness. In addition, she recently developed a school-nurse intervention to improve their ability to identify and reduce anxiety in youth and previously completed a study developing a brief anxiety reduction intervention delivered by pediatricians in primary care settings.  She also recently developed a teacher-delivered intervention for students with excessive anxiety and is now developing an intervention to support students with anxiety as they transition from elementary to middle school. Dr. Ginsburg has also focused her efforts on preventing the onset of anxiety disorders and has developed and tested an anxiety preventive intervention for offspring of anxious parents; she was funded by NIMH to examine the long-term follow up of these youth as well. Dr. Ginsburg’s lab at UConn—the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression Program (CAMP; website: CAMP Lab | UConn Health) recently completed a clinical trial in community mental health clinics comparing three different talk therapies for adolescents with anxiety and/or depression—a project with the University of Miami. She has been the PI or Co-PI on over 10 federally and/or privately funded clinical trials, including the large NIMH-funded landmark multi-site clinical trials for depression (Treatment of Adolescent Depression Study; TADS) and Tourette’s (Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics; CBIT).  

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop, the learner will be able to:

1. Identify at least one anxiety-specific assessment tool.

2. Identify at least one evidence-based intervention strategy for reducing student anxiety.

3. Identify two benefits of school-based interventions for anxiety.

Recommended Readings:

1. Ginsburg, G. S. & Smith, I. (2023). Interventions for students with anxiety. In Evans, S. Owens, J. Bradshaw, C. & Weist, M. (EDs). Handbook of School Mental Health - Innovations in Science and Practice, Third Edition. Springer Publishers.

2. Conroy, K., Hong, N., Poznanski, B., Hart, K.C., Ginsburg, G.S., Fabiano, G.A., & Comer, J.S. (2022). Harnessing home-school partnerships and school consultation to support youth with anxiety disorders. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 29, 381-399.

3. Piselli, K., Pella, J. E., Chan, G., & Ginsburg, G. S*. (2022). The teacher anxiety program for   elementary students: Open trial results. Education and Treatment of Children, 45, (1) 33-50.

4. Ginsburg, G. S*. Pella, J. Slade, E. (2022) Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of School-Based Treatments for Anxiety Disorders. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 25, 91-103.

5. Ginsburg, G. S*., Drake, K. L., Muggeo, M.A., Stewart, C. E., Pkulski, P.J., Zheng, D., & Harel, O. (2021). A pilot RCT of a school nurse delivered intervention to reduce student anxiety. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 50 (2) 177-186. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2019.1630833

About the Moderator: 

Emily Becker-Haimes, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Mental Health and the clinical director of the Pediatric Anxiety Treatment Center at Hall Mercer, which is the only specialty anxiety clinic in Philadelphia dedicated to serving youth in the public mental health system. She is an implementation scientist and clinical psychologist whose research and clinical work is dedicated to improving mental health service quality in specialty mental health settings for youth.  Dr. Becker-Haimes received her doctoral degree in child clinical psychology from the University of Miami. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

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All attendees will receive a certificate of completion when the course requirements are satisfied. Certificate of completion is included in the cost of the webinar

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For more information, contact:

Rachel Lamb, ABCT Membership and Marketing Manager
212-647-1890 ext. 209
rlamb@abct.org

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