Helping Parents to Use Evidence-Based Principles to Increase Resilience in Children & Teens

Muniya Khanna, Ph.D., discusses the next step in her career, which is helping get the tools of effective treatment into the hands of parents who want to help their children. She discusses her career in treatment and research, working with Martin Seligman, Ph.D. researching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and her work with Philip Kendall, PhD. researching his CBT treatment for children, Coping Cat. Muniya tells about her interest in technology, and her work with Phil to make a computer program, and now an online program for kids to learn CBT, which is evidence based and used widely in schools and is now available for parents. She also discusses her work with University of Pennsylvania where she was on faculty, and participated in the research related to children and OCD, as well as young children and OCD. She explains that her new passion is in getting the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools for kids into the hands of parents through writing a book for consumers. She discusses her Worry Workbook, and her upcoming book which discusses five evidence based principals of resiliency that are effective transdiagnostically. Muniya Khanna, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist specializing in CBT for anxiety disorders and OCD. Dr. Khanna is a pioneer in web-based mental health research for anxiety disorders. In partnership with her mentor, Dr. Philip Kendall, she developed and tested Camp Cope-A-Lot, She is currently conducting 2 large-scale clinical trials, funded by NIH and NICHD, focused on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments for anxiety in urban public schools. Dr. Khanna has authored numerous books and research publications, has been on faculty, is on the review board of journals, and boards of the American Psychological Association. She is Founder and Director of the OCD & Anxiety Institute in Pennsylvania and Research Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.