About this course

Learning Objectives

• Identify 2 reasons that children with SM struggle with other activities, including eating and using the bathroom.
• Describe 2 strategies designed to provide exposure to children around eating.
• Describe 2 ways to target using the bathroom, with and without parents present.

Learning Levels

• All Levels

Course Instructor(s)

• 

  Rachel Busman, Psy.D., ABPP

  Senior Director, Child & Adolescent Anxiety and Related Disorders Program, Cognitive Behavioral Consultants

  Rachel Busman, PsyD, ABPP is the senior director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Related Disorders Center at Cognitive Behavioral Consultants. She was previously the director of the Anxiety Disorders Center and Selective Mutism Service at the Child Mind Institute. She ran Brave Buddies, an intensive treatment program for SM for many years. Dr. Busman is the former president of the Selective Mutism Association, the nation’s largest network of professionals, families, and individuals with selective mutism.

  Dr. Busman has extensive experience providing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to children, teenagers and young adults struggling with anxiety disorders, school difficulties and behavioral problems. She also has specific interest and expertise in the evaluation and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias. She is certified in PCIT-SM and has lectured widely on this topic. She trains others through the SMA and is passionate about her work with children and families.

• 

  Eleanor Ezell, LCSW

  Owner, Child and Family Therapy Collective

  Eleanor Ezell, LCSW, is a licensed therapist in Tennessee and is the Founder and Clinical Director at Child and Family Therapy Collective based in Nashville, TN. She has extensive experience providing evidence-based therapy to children and young teens who struggle with selective mutism, anxiety, ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders, and a wide range of developmental delays.

  She attended New York University for graduate training where she trained with and worked very closely with Dr. Steven Kurtz over 5 years treating children with selective mutism and related disorders. She completed a two-year Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship at The University of Mississippi Medical Center where she also was personally grand funded to bring PCIT-SM and the Brave Buddies/Mighty Mouth Kids Camp model to the state of Mississippi. In the last 10 years, she has participated in, or replicated, intensive treatment in New York, California, Mississippi and soon will replicate in Tennessee. Eleanor currently runs the selective mutism program at Child and Family Therapy Collective in Nashville, TN where she offers weekly sessions, individual intensives and intensive group model treatment.

Disclosure

References

• Carpenter, A. L., Puliafico, A. C., Kurtz, S. M., Pincus, D. B., & Comer, J. S. (2014). Extending parent-child interaction therapy for early childhood internalizing problems: new advances for an overlooked population. Clinical child and family psychology review, 17(4), 340–356.
• Comer, J. S., Puliafico, A. C., Aschenbrand, S. G., McKnight, K., Robin, J. A., Goldfine, M. E., & Albano, M. (2012). A pilot feasibility evaluation of the CALM program for anxiety disorders in early childhood. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26(1), 40–49. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.08.011.
• Lebowitz, E.R., Marin, C.E., Martino, A., Shimshoni, Y., & Silverman, W.K. (2019). Parent-Based Treatment as Efficacious as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety: A Randomized Noninferiority Study of Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Rudy, B.M., Zavrou, S., Johnco, C. et al. Parent-Led Exposure Therapy: A Pilot Study of a Brief Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety in Young Children. J Child Fam Stud 26, 2475–2484