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Treatment Resistant Anxiety, Worry & Panic: 60 Effective Strategies
Program Information
Objectives
- Articulate components of the “anxiety spiral” and utilize several evidence-based strategies (including self-controlled desensitization) to prevent exacerbation of symptoms.
- Specify five potential anxiety treatment pitfalls and learn evidence based approaches to avoid or correct them.
- Implement four mindfulness strategies for treating anxiety symptoms in a clinical setting.
- Evaluate the inverse relationship between worry and problem solving, and identify its implications for treatment of anxiety.
- Examine the clinical presentation of panic, worry and fear of guilt and how they compare to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; learn clinical strategies to stop these cycles of negative reinforcement.
- Develop clinical skills to address treatment-resistant issues, including perfectionism, subjugation, procrastination, hypochondriasis, and catastrophizing/intolerance of uncertainty.
Outline
Anxiety Spirals, Panic and Early Cue Detection
- Examples of Worry Spirals and Panic Spirals
- The Empirical Evidence
- 3 Benefits of Catching Anxiety Early
- Reminders for Catching Anxiety Early
Mindfulness
- Move Toward Relaxation vs. Away From Anxiety
- Process vs. Command
- Present Focus – Mindfulness as a Relaxation Tool
- Acceptance
- Observation of Thoughts and Emotion
- Labeling of Thoughts and Emotions
- Observation and Labeling Game
Self-Controlled Desensitization (SCD)
- Rationale for SCD
- Formal SCD
- In-Session SCD
- Active Relaxation
Cognitive Therapy
- Find Alternative Thoughts
- The Role of “Shoulds” and “Need To’s”
- Changing to “Want To’s”
- The Humor of Worry
- Dealing with Superstitious Worry
- Limitations of research and CBT Interventions
Problem Solving
- Worry Prevents Problem Solving – Evidence
- 4 Ways to do Problem Solving
OCD-like Symptoms in Panic and Worry
- Dangers of a Poor Assessment
- Stop encouraging Avoidance and Escape
- Assess for Negative Reinforcement
- Removing Crutches
- Traditional Exposure
- Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
- Finding and Flooding “The Real Worry”
- Risks Associated with Treatment of Panic
- Related Research Limitations
Reduce Tension and Increase Energy
- Progressive-Muscle Relaxation
- Quick Alternatives to PMR
- Energy Conservation
Problems That Are Often Treatment Resistant and How to Approach them
- Hypochondriasis and Fear of Untimely Death
- Perfectionism
- Subjugation
- Catastrophizing/Intolerance of Uncertainty
- Procrastination
Copyright :
03/11/2016
The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques
Program Information
Objectives
- Articulate the neurobiological causes of panic, generalized anxiety and social anxiety and ascertain how this information impacts treatment decisions.
- Implement strategies for stress management to reduce symptoms of anxiety in clients, including lifestyle changes, cognitive interventions and time management tools.
- Model effective use of diaphragmatic breathing techniques for physiological modulation in the treatment of anxiety.
- Communicate how memory reconsolidation assists clients in identifying their anxiety triggers and interrupt the common cognitions that often lead to panic attacks.
- Integrate specific clinical techniques to address persistent worry and understand how this changes the neurobiology of ruminative thought patterns in clients.
- Utilize cognitive therapy interventions with clients to manage perfectionism, procrastination and rigid approaches to problems.
Outline
Assessment and Differential Diagnosis
- The causes of panic, generalized anxiety and social anxiety that help select treatment
- Differential diagnosis in children - ADD and ASD
- Treatment approaches that change brain function for long-lasting recovery
- The impact of insomnia in generalized anxiety
Techniques That Work to Modulate Physiology
- The right way to teach and use diaphragmatic breathing
- Develop the 4 competencies of stress management
- Utilize different types of relaxation and discuss their use in different types of anxiety disorders
- Four important lifestyle changes everyone can make to reduce anxiety
Techniques for Treating Cognitive Problems of Anxiety and Panic
- The best thought-replacement methods for worry and rumination
- Clear the mind of ruminative and racing thoughts
- Know when anger triggers anxiety and how to work with it in worried clients
- How to stop worry before it happens
Techniques for Managing Social Anxiety
- Apply the “Three Deep Breaths and Good Preparation” model to construct treatment goals for social anxiety
- Structure cognitive change through planned “counter-cognitions”
- Apply ‘in vivo exposure’ techniques that optimize recovery from social anxiety
Copyright :
19/01/2017
Mastering the Anxiety Game: Teaching Clients to Welcome Their Fears
Objectives
- Explain how to rapidly engage anxious clients in the therapeutic alliance and change their mindset toward their fears.
- Identify why the first step to changing an overwhelming response to anxiety is accepting the perceived threat as something the client can approach and change.
- Implement strategies to help clients transform their fear into a challenge to be met or a puzzle to be solved.
Outline
Introduction to anxiety disorders and treatment methods
- Protocol to apply to all anxiety disorders
- Overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other specific anxiety disorder treatment methods
Experiencing the treatment of anxiety disorders
- Video demonstrations of cognitive behavioral therapy in-session
- Summary and analysis video sessions
- Discussion of anxiety and trauma
Question and answer session with Reid Wilson and concluding remarks
- Final remarks about in-session videos
- Reid Wilson answers audience questions about treating anxiety disorders
Copyright :
18/03/2016
33 Tips and Tools for the Depression Toolbox: Using CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and ACT
Objectives
- Integrate “hands on” techniques for dealing with treatment-resistant clients, including activities, visualization, reproducible worksheet and handouts.
- Describe the essential components of the effective therapeutic session.
- Identify powerful strategies from CBT, DBT, MBCT and ACT to help your client combat depression.
- Give examples of how your clients can effectively use behavioral and mood logs, tracking sheets and/or daily or weekly diaries to combat depression.
- Demonstrate how acronyms, metaphors, thought diaries and mood logs can help client overcome negative thinking related to depression.
Outline
Effective Therapy for Depression
- 7 essential characteristics of all therapeutic sessions
- Use of feedback and homework
- Emphasis on practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Perception is everything activity
- CBT boot-camp for your client
- Teach the psychological ABC’S
- The Downward Arrow technique
- Costs vs. benefits analysis
- Double standard technique
- Eliminate the ANTS
- Thoughts/feelings/situations
- Core belief busting
- Coping cards
- Checklist of common cognitive distortions
- Categorize negative thinking
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Defusion techniques
- White Room and conveyor belt metaphors
- Mindfulness techniques
- Using metaphors to heal
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Acceptance and mindfulness tips
- Acronyms
- Emotional regulation strategies
- Distress tolerance strategies
- Use of DBT diaries
Effective Handouts & Worksheets for Depression
- Depression screening inventories
- Diaries
- Daily mood logs
- Bibliotherapy and depression
Program Information
Objectives
- Integrate “hands on” techniques for dealing with treatment-resistant clients, including activities, visualization, reproducible worksheet and handouts.
- Describe the essential components of the effective therapeutic session.
- Identify powerful strategies from CBT, DBT, MBCT and ACT to help your client combat depression.
- Give examples of how your clients can effectively use behavioral and mood logs, tracking sheets and/or daily or weekly diaries to combat depression.
- Demonstrate how acronyms, metaphors, thought diaries and mood logs can help client overcome negative thinking related to depression.
Outline
Effective Therapy for Depression
- 7 essential characteristics of all therapeutic sessions
- Use of feedback and homework
- Emphasis on practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Perception is everything activity
- CBT boot-camp for your client
- Teach the psychological ABC’S
- The Downward Arrow technique
- Costs vs. benefits analysis
- Double standard technique
- Eliminate the ANTS
- Thoughts/feelings/situations
- Core belief busting
- Coping cards
- Checklist of common cognitive distortions
- Categorize negative thinking
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Defusion techniques
- White Room and conveyor belt metaphors
- Mindfulness techniques
- Using metaphors to heal
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Acceptance and mindfulness tips
- Acronyms
- Emotional regulation strategies
- Distress tolerance strategies
- Use of DBT diaries
Effective Handouts & Worksheets for Depression
- Depression screening inventories
- Diaries
- Daily mood logs
- Bibliotherapy and depression
Copyright :
02/06/2014
A Mindful Yoga Practice for Healing Depression
Program Information
Objectives
- Incorporate at least two yoga practices for depression that can be adapted in clinical practice.
- Determine how breathing skills can be incorporated into treatment to help regulate emotions.
Outline
- Introduction
- Follow along guided yoga practice with modifications
Copyright :
05/01/2015