Anxiety & OCD: Through the Lens of NVR
Anxiety & OCD: Through the Lens of NVR
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Join our exclusive one-day online workshop with Warren Matofsky, ‘Anxiety & OCD: Through the Lens of NVR’
The workshop will be brought to you LIVE online via Zoom on Wednesday 19th March 2025, and is open to NVR Professionals who have a keen interest in SPACE and / or Professionals who have already undertaken SPACE training (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
In preparation of the workshop, you will receive pre-training tasks, which will include reading / watching of videos – this will take approx 2-3 hours, and needs to be completed ahead of the event.
This workshop is also available privately in-house, contact us for prices for your team. Email: training@partnershipprojectsuk.com.
About the Workshop
For the past 8 years, Warren has led the development, delivery & supervision of a highly effective digital group format of the SPACE model (Lebowitz & Omer, 2013). Group therapy with PACMAN (Parent And Carer Module for ANxiety) was developed in Sussex CAMHS with young people and their families, who are affected by moderate to severe anxiety & OCD. This bespoke workshop will guide you through how to deliver this 3-month online group intervention format, using this co-developed digital tool, that you will be given exclusive access to through joining this event.
PACMAN includes all the psycho-educational and tracking tools that families will need, allowing practitioners to focus group time on building an inclusive group space, safe enough for parents & carers to engage with the process of change and work on overcoming the common barriers that emerge in clinical practice. This is a neuro-inclusive format, that has consistently been delivered to mixed groups, where some families have children with neurodevelopmental diagnoses and others will not, to enable sustainable delivery in resource-limited services.
This online group psychotherapy format has been repeatedly shown to be effective in improving child functioning, reducing family accommodation, and leaving the home environment calmer. The workshop will include lots of practical group-based techniques and conversational inquiries that Warren has developed in adapting the New Authority model to a British context.
This workshop is suitable for NVR practitioners who are new to the SPACE model, as well as those who have completed the specialist 2-day SPACE training with Eli Lebowitz and are interested in applying this model in a group format with complex, clinical populations.
In line with the New Authority Model (Omer, 2011), the workshop will include ideas for working across home-school communities with recommendations for working with schools on reducing accommodation as part of educational support.
All delegates will receive a digital training pack, including exclusive access to PACMAN, preparatory reading materials, a brief introduction to online group dynamics, training in the use of key outcomes measures to evaluate the intervention, support materials for guiding accommodation reduction in schools & colleges and a full training slide pack.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe how the New Authority model applies to maintenance of child anxiety and OCD difficulties
- Introduce collaborative group spaces organised by parent and carer preferences and safe group boundaries
- Use digital tools to support families to understand how family accommodation maintains child anxiety problems and develop planned alternative responses
- Use conversational inquiries to support parent/carer motivation to change how they respond to their child’s difficulties
- Use group intervention techniques to address parental self-blame and shame
- Apply ideas about accommodation reduction to support in school and the community
- Evaluate the impact of brief group therapy with parents and carers, on child functioning and family accommodation
Meet Warren Matofsky
Warren Matofsky
Dr Warren Matofsky, Principal Clinical & Community Psychologist, group psychotherapist & senior teaching fellow (University of Surrey, SPFT Sussex CAMHS)
NVR Association (NVRA) Accredited Practitioner and Supervisor
Trained in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)
Prior to clinical training, I worked for 15 years as a youth & community worker in Sussex, Palestine & Haiti. I have specialised in child & family Mental Health work and group psychotherapy over the past 20 years in CAMHS. I completed my Psychology & Philosophy BA degree, disheartened by psychology’s narrow focus on experimentalism & cognitivism. However, my own experience as a “mental health patient” & survivor-activist, pushed me back to training, as what I experienced on the ward & in the therapy room often seemed ad hoc, uncollaborative & unsafe. This informed my research interests in power, gender and group process pursued through the Surrey PsychD programme (2002-2005) and my group relations training (Tavistock, 2007-2011). My interest in power has pushed me to interrogate how I work with my white, cis-male, educated privilege and create supervisory contexts that are safe enough to support mutual learning on working with differences & similarities.
Important Information
How much does it cost?
Early Bird Tickets: £135+VAT*
Full Price: £150+VAT
Groups Discounts:
Save 10% for groups of 10 or more,
or save 15% for groups of 20 or more.
This workshop is also available to book privately in-house for your team, email: training@partnershipprojectsuk.com for more info.
What is included?
– 1x Full Day Workshop – with networking and Q&A
– Confirmation of Attendance Certificate with CPD points
– Training Slides
– Pre-workshop training materials / tasks – which will include reading & watching of videos – this will take approx 2-3 hours and needs to be completed ahead of the event.
– PACMAN (Parent And Carer Modul
When & Where?
Wednesday 19th March 2025, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Hosted LIVE online via Zoom Pro
Who Can Attend?
The workshop is open to practitioners in CAMHS, mental health, social care, education, youth justice and the independent sector, who already have an understanding of the core principles of NVR and / or SPACE
Also available for Group Bookings, contact us today for a free no-obligation consultation & quote.
Email: training@partnershipprojectsuk.com
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*Early bird tickets available until the 31st Jan 2025
Information about SPACE
About Eli Lebowitz, PhD
Professor Lebowitz studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety and is Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on cross-generational and familial influences in these disorders. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of numerous research papers and of books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. He is also the father of three great boys.
SPACE: Discussing a Parent-Centred approach to childhood social anxiety with Eli Lebowitz, PhD.
Several questions arise when working with childhood anxiety. Is it more optimal to work with the child individually, the parents, or both? How do we help the child if there are obstacles to compliance or availability of the child? How can we empower parents to be the best resource for their children?
Dr. Eli Lebowitz, PhD, is the Director of Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. He has long been involved in researching family accommodation and its influence on childhood anxiety. Dr. Lebowitz and his team at the Yale Child Study Center have since developed the SPACE program (spacetreatment.net).
SPACE is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. His recently published book, “Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents”, is geared towards helping parents learn how to implement the SPACE program and become a valuable resource for their children.
