Upcoming Workshops
ICDL 2023 TREATING FEARS AND PHOBIAS IN YOUNG CHILDREN Live Online Thursday September 21, 2023 https://www.icdl.com/courses/404
ICDL International DIR-Floortime Conference Live Online October 21, 2023: Beyond Therapy: The immeasurable importance of simply being with your child https://www.icdl.com/conferences
Recent Workshops
ICDL 2023 TREATING FEARS AND PHOBIAS IN YOUNG CHILDREN Live Online 6/11/2023
New England Play Therapy Association TREATING FEARS AND PHOBIAS IN YOUNG CHILDREN March 10, 2023
ICDL 2022 International DIR-Floortime Conference – Humor in DIR-Floortime Speakers: Dr. Cindy Puccio, Ph.D., MA., LCSW, DIR-Expert, Dr. Gil Tippy, PsyD, DIR-Expert, and Dr. Karen Levine, PhD, DIR-Expert
Klein-Tasman, B., Young, B., and Levine, K. (2023) Addressing Fears of Children with Williams Syndrome: Therapist and Child Behavior in the Context of a Novel Play-and Humor-Infused Exposure Therapy Approach. Frontiers DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1098449
Bonita P. Klein-Tasman, Brianna N. Young, Karen Levine, Kenia Rivera, Elizabeth J. Miecielica, Brianna D. Yund & Sydni E. French (2021): Acceptability and Effectiveness of Humor- and Play-Infused Exposure Therapy for Fears in Williams Syndrome, Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Downloadable Handout
Treating Fears and Phobias in Young Children: Gradual Exposure and Humor. In this handout, along with my colleague Naomi Chedd, LMHC, I explain how I treat fears and phobias, integrating fun interactive play with Gradual Incorporation of feared objects or situations, for young neurodivergent or neurotypical children.
Treating fears and phobias in young neurodivergent or neurotypical children A play-based, JOYFUL, interactive approach
Downloadable article:
Social Affective Diet Concept
Podcasts, Webinars, Radio
Karen interviewed on Clearly Clinical CE Podcasts on treating fears and phobias 2023
https://clearlyclinical.com/podcast/ceu-child-phobias
Karen interviewed on Daria Brown’s Affect Autism podcast on treating fears and phobias 2023
https://affectautism.com/2023/05/26/fears/
Karen interviewed on Anna Christie’s podcast, about treating Emetophobia (fear of vomiting) in children, June 2021:
Karen’s webinar and video on the WSA website, about treating fears and phobias in children with Williams Syndrome (scroll down below talk/slides for the videoclip)
https://williams-syndrome.org/resources/webinarpresentation/treating-fears-and-phobias-in-ws-webinar
Halloween fears SiriusXM DoctorRadio About Our Kids segment. Karen is the guest. October 2017
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