CBT4CBT

Learn Coping Cat from the people who developed it

CBT4CBT: Computer-Based Training in CBT for Anxiety in Youth includes 13 modules on implementing Coping Cat and Camp Cope-A-Lot, developed and tested by Dr. Philip C. Kendall and Dr. Muniya Khanna, completed at your own pace.

Each module gives the rationale for a part of the Coping Cat treatment and step-by-step guidance for running the session, with filmed role-plays of therapy with anxious children. Coping Cat is the treatment used in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS), the largest NIH-funded trial of treatment for childhood anxiety, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

What you will learn

The modules follow the Coping Cat sessions in order:

1. Session 1: Building rapport and treatment orientation
2. Session 2: Identifying anxious feelings
3. Session 3: Identifying somatic responses to anxiety
4. Session 4: First meeting with parents
5. Parent meetings: General comments for Sessions 4 and 9
6. Session 5: Relaxation training
7. Session 6: Identifying anxious self-talk and learning to challenge anxious thoughts
8. Session 7: Self-talk review and problem-solving training
9. Session 8: Introducing self-evaluation and self-reward, and review
10. Session 9: Second meeting with parents
11. Exposure tasks: Overview of Sessions 10-16
12. Session 16: Final practice, producing a commercial, and termination

A look inside

Who it is for

CBT4CBT prepares you to deliver the 16-session Coping Cat (with the workbook from Workbook Publishing) or the 12-session Camp Cope-A-Lot. It is intended for professionals already trained in child and adolescent mental health and is not, on its own, sufficient training to become a CBT provider.