Introducing the online
Selective Mutism
Therapists’ Course
By Expert Psychologist Ruth Perednik
On registering you will receive access to a 9-session parents’ video course, which prepares you for the live sessions with psychologist Ruth Perednik
at a pace of one per week – over the course of 4 months. The sessions will be available for viewing if you miss a live session.
Each live lecture includes interactive questions and answers
Diploma for finishing the course, practical diploma after finishing 2 treatments with supervision.
After the course, the possibility of continued supervision.
is a pioneer in the field of selective mutism – heading treatment clinics, training therapists, publishing and researching, and lecturing around the world. This is your opportunity to learn directly from her – and gain skills and knowledge to enable you to treat children and teens with selective mutism.
“I have specialized in treating thousands of children and teens with selective mutism, running SM centers, publishing research and books, and training therapists and parents the world over.
I am offering you this opportunity to specialize in selective mutism – just as I did 30 years ago, and it turned into my life’s work and driving passion. If you think that this could be a niche expertise that suits your interests and abilities, this course could set you on your way to having a vital, needed and wonderful professional direction”.
Fifteen live interactive lectures with psychologist Ruth Perednik:
1
Introduction and diagnostic criteria for selective mutism
2
What causes Selective Mutism?
3
Evaluation of children with SM
4
Shyness and Anxiety. Related anxiety disorders
5
THERAPY!!! Tenets of behavioral, cognitive-behavioral and dynamic therapy for SM
6
Systematic desensitization – building gradual steps toward speech
7
Therapy at Home and school: Therapy protocol #1
8
Working with the teacher – teachers’ interventions
9
Working with the parents – parents’ interventions
10
Treating teens and adults with SM #1 – CBT and ACT tool: Therapy protocol#2
11
Treating teens and adults with SM #2 – CBT and ACT tools
12
Mindfulness for teens and adults – and young children too!
13
Therapeutic aims, follow up, and more recording techniques. Working from the clinic in SM: Therapy protocol #3
14
Selective mutism retreats and summer camps. Review of literature on SM
15
Final session – case studies
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