Dr. Zendegui is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavior therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She is an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai St. Luke's and a Clinical Supervisor at Rutgers University, where she supervises student clinicians in the Coping Cat as part of a research study. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Child Psychology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, and she completed her internship at Long Island Jewish Hospital/Zucker Hillside Hospital (now Northwell). Her externships were at Bellevue Hospital and Child Mind Institute. She previously worked as a clinical psychologist in the Montefiore School Health Program and in private practice. Dr. Zendegui's interests include increasing access to evidence-based treatments, and her clinical work focuses on evidence-based treatments for anxiety and eating disorders.
Phone Coaching for School Refusal: Using Technology to Help Youth Get Unstuck
School refusal is a significant problem that presents broad difficulties for youth and families, and school refusal can be difficult for clinicians to target. Phone coaching is a mode of treatment commonly used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help generalize the skills learned in sessions. Coaching a child by phone or a family by teletherapy can be used to assist with skills generalization as an adjunct to traditional, in-office therapy.
This webinar will provide an overview of school refusal and how it interfaces with mental health problems, introduce the rationale for and structure of...Read more phone coaching, introduce skills for treating school refusal, and provide an illustration of how to use phone coaching as an adjunct to therapy. Less...
Learning Objectives
- List 2 possible functions of school refusal
- List one intervention for caregivers and one intervention for youth with school refusal
- Outline the structure of phone coaching
Friday, February 21, 2020
Live Interactive Webinar
12:00 PM EST - 01:00 PM EST
EARN 1 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Elaina Zendegui, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Mount Sinai St. Luke's
CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour
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American Psychological Association
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