Advanced Clinician Seminar 3 - Advanced Clinician Seminar Series: Stepping in and stepping up: Strategies for fostering parent and teen/young adult collaboration in managing anxiety and meeting the tasks of adulting
Friday, November 21, 2025
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM CST
Location: Foster 2, Level 2
Earn 1.5 Credit
Keywords: Adolescents and emerging adults, Family , Anxiety Level of Familiarity: Moderate to Advanced Recommended Readings: Carollo A, De Marzo S, Esposito G. Parental care and overprotection predict worry and anxiety symptoms in emerging adult students. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Aug;248:104398. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104398. Epub 2024 Jul 17. PMID: 39025031., Cruciani G, Fontana A, Benzi IMA, Sideli L, Parolin LAL, Muzi L, Carone N. Mentalized Affectivity, Helicopter Parenting, and Psychopathological Risk in Emerging Adults: A Network Analysis. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2024 Sep 18;14(9):2523-2541. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe14090167. PMID: 39329835; PMCID: PMC11431566., Hoffman, L., Guerry, J., & Albano, A.M. (2018). Anxiety Disorders: Transitional Age Youth. Current Psychiatry Reports: Child and Adolescent Disorders, 20: 25. Philadelphia: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0888-9, 10.1007/s11920-018-0888-9, ,
Professor Columbia University Medical Center New York, New York, United States
Pioneered at the 2024 convention in Philadelphia, the Advanced Clinician Seminar Series is a novel clinical format designed specifically for advanced clinicians seeking content and consultation commensurate with their level of expertise. In 2025, the program offers three of these free seminars featuring an expert clinician and moderator who will offer consultation, case conceptualization, and treatment planning on your most complex cases. Attendees will be expected to self-identify as advanced clinicians, bring structured case presentations for possible discussion, and fully participate in a seminar-style discussion. This seminar hosted by Dr. Anne Marie Albano, an expert in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and related disorders in youth, will center on the rationale, conceptualization, and process of engaging parents and youth to work together in the treatment of adolescents and emerging adults who experience problematic anxiety and demonstrate limited evidence of functioning with appropriate age- and role-related independence. After a brief orientation to the developmental model of CBT known as “LEAP” (Launching Emerging Adolescents/Adults Program), focus will be on treating anxiety in young people by engaging their primary support persons to reduce accommodations while fostering the shaping of skills necessary for independent functioning. Dr. Albano will present didactic material, lead discussions, use role play and video demonstrations, and engage participants in sharing insights and advanced clinical techniques to foster productive parent-youth engagement and collaboration. The seminar will cover a range of issues steeped in a developmental CBT model of treating youth with their parents, with attention to addressing the interaction of youth dependency and parental overprotectiveness in maintaining anxiety and impeding independent role functioning. Specific areas that will be addressed include engaging parents & youth in collaboration while respecting youth confidentiality; addressing parental history & beliefs; assessing developmental milestones & functioning; examining the role of overprotection & accommodation; collaborative goal setting; family communication & problem solving; and the use of role reversal and related experiential learning strategies to foster insight and collaborations that empower youth in taking responsibility and independent action to manage anxiety and challenges of daily life. This seminar will offer attendees an interactive learning experience, with opportunities to present case examples and access the collective experience and wisdom of the group while discussing conceptualization, plans, and interventions strategies for youth needing assistance in developing self-efficacy and gaining experience in age-appropriate coping skills for managing anxiety and independent functioning through to adulthood.
Outline: 1. Introduction of Moderator (Dr. Sandra S. Pimentel) and Expert Clinician (Dr. Anne Marie Albano) 2. Introduction to Advanced Clinician Seminar Series a. Taking a developmental and family-focused lense in CBT for anxiety in youth i. Determining which families are appropriate for this treatment, and what to do if a parent or youth is not ready or able to participate? b. Impact of anxiety on the tasks of development and parenting practices c. Assessing stalled development and parental overprotection d. Importance of a tripartite approach, integrating theory, research & practice 3. Case Presentations and Analysis a. Brief presentation of 2 case examples by Dr. Albano b. Invitation to discuss complex cases by attendees 4. Advanced Treatment Planning a. Engaging parents and youth in goal setting: use of assessment results b. Tailoring interventions to individual client/family needs and preferences 5. Specialized Techniques and Approaches a. Deep dive into specific therapeutic modalities for advanced clinicians i. Parent exploration of their own history: factors that are impacting their present-day parenting approach ii. Examining their personal development of overprotection/overcontrol iii. Fostering youth-parent understanding: bringing gestalt and experiential learning activities into CBT (e.g., perspective taking role reversal; parent-focused exposure exercises) b. Experiential exercises (e.g., role-play, modeling) to practice new techniques 6. Conclusion and Next Steps a. Summary of key takeaways from the seminar series b. Resources for further learning and development
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Develop advanced understanding of the factors contributing to the maintenance of youth anxiety and parental over involvement that lead to stalled development in youth transitioning through to adulthood, and ways elucidation of these factors including parental history and negative reinforcement paradigms may contribute to positive engagement and change for the youth and parents, and examine factors that help determine whether and when to involve parents in sessions.
Be able to conduct an assessment of youth and parental goals, developmental functioning of the youth, and parental over involvement/protection for use in structuring collaborative goals for treatment.
3. Through role playing and case discussion, practice experiential exercises and exposure-based techniques to engage youth and parents in the therapy process, explore existing communication and relational patterns, and advance understanding of how best to work together for positive change.
Through role playing and case discussion, practice experiential exercises and exposure-based techniques to engage youth and parents in the therapy process, explore existing communication and relational patterns, and advance understanding of how best to work together for positive change.
Long-term Goal: Understand how to apply CBT to address emotional as well as developmental functioning through a family-based approach using assessment and treatment strategies to expose the history and development of parental over protective behavior coupled with youth avoidance and/or skills deficits that maintain anxiety.
Long-term Goal: Learn to utilize evidence-based principles and strategies to foster engagement and therapeutic improvement for moderate to severely anxious youth across diverse populations, ultimately to promote healthy functioning.
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