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Margaret Wehrenberg on effective anxiety treatment
Program Information
Outline
Objectives
- Articulate the role of the brain and neuroscience in anxiety symptom expression and effective anxiety treatment
- Identify key components of effective anxiety treatment including appropriate psychopharmacological and mindfulness practices
- Differentiate between anxiety and co-occurring symptomatology such as depression, anger, and over-activity
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/01/2018
Calming the Anxious Brain - Part 1
The past decade has brought new understanding about the neuroscience behind anxiety and fear. But how many of us can communicate this knowledge to clients in a clear, engaging way that actually enhances effective treatment?
You don’t need to be a brain scientist to tap into the power of neuroplasticity and revolutionize your approach to treating anxiety. This workshop recording will explore brain-based techniques to stop the symptoms of anxiety, including panic attacks, rumination, and nausea.
Program Information
Objectives
- Use examples to illustrate how the anxious brain functions and how to use that information in session to improve treatment outcomes.
- Describe the role of the amygdala and cortex in maintaining anxiety disorders s for purposes of client psychoeducation.
- Explain how learning about the neuroscience of anxiety can improve client engagement.
- Use neurologically informed CBT techniques to help clients reduce anxious responding by making changes in both the cortex and the amygdala.
Outline
Introduction
- Disclosures
- Limitations
- Scope of Practice
- Learning Objectives
Using Neuroscience in the Treatment of Anxiety
- Neuroscience & Anxiety
- Neuroscience & Therapists
- Using Neuroscience to Enhance Client Engagement
- Treatment Goal Selection
- Neuropsychologically Informed CBT
- Neuroplasticity
- Reconsolidation
- Two Pathways to Anxiety
Understanding Anxiety in the Brain: The Amygdala Pathway
- Fight, Flight, Freeze
- Language of the Amygdala
- Triggers Created in the Amygdala
- Neuroplasticity in the Amygdala
- Amygdala-Focused Interventions
Understanding Anxiety in the Brain: The Cortex Pathway
- Relationship between the Cortex & Amygdala
- Neuroplasticity in the Cortex
- Cortex-Based Interventions
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/22/2019
Calming the Anxious Brain - Part 2
Copyright :
03/22/2019
Mastering the Anxiety Game: Teaching Clients to Welcome Their Fears
Therapists are supposed to make clients safe and secure, creating a cozy haven from a cruel world, right? Well, when it comes to treating anxiety, there’s growing evidence that the quickest, most effective approach involves instructing them to ramp up their fears while telling themselves how much they welcome the experience. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to help clients shift their relationship with their fears and override the responses that perpetuate them.
Program Information
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
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/18/2016
Disrupting Rumination: Changing the Cognitions that Underlie Anxiety and Depression
Overactive brain circuitry can trap clients in cycles of rumination that can keep them anxious and depressed. Letting go of ruminating worries, or banishing persistent thoughts, like I’m not good enough or I’m worthless, isn’t easy for clients and when ruminations don’t shift, therapists can begin to feel stuck themselves.
Watch Margaret Wehrenberg and she will examine why clients lock into depressive thought patterns and why they feel they need to hold on to worry. You will learn practical interventions to use in-session for eliminating these patterns and replacing them with attitudes of calm and competency.
Program Information
Objectives
- Articulate methods to help clients identify perfectionism in thought and behavior and explore treatment interventions to decrease symptoms of anxiety.
- Implement strategies for stress management to reduce symptoms of anxiety in clients, including lifestyle changes, cognitive interventions and time management tools.
- Evaluate the negative impact of rumination on the brain structure and function to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Ascertain the underlying neurological processes that impact depression symptoms in clients.
Outline
Rumination as The Link Between Anxiety and Depression
- Brief look at brain structure/function contributions
- The purpose of worry: cognitive mis-steps
- Explore the impact of guilt and interventions for guilt
Manage Worry
- Contain your worry in time
- Invite the worry
- Identify and alter “magical worry”
The Impact of Stress and 4 Competencies to Prevent Stress Damage on Health, Anxiety and Depression
- Eliminate the Stressor
- Manage time and environment
- Manage Attitude
- Practice Rest and Relaxation
Perfectionism and the Too Much Activity (TMA) person
- Perfectionism in thought and behavior and interrupt its negative effects
- When procrastination is perfectionism in disguise
A look at Depression - Raising Energy and Altering Cognitions
- Altering the neural networks that keep rumination in place
“Born to be blue” - Spotting and altering the impact of endogenous depression
- Change the network on purpose - “Start where you already are”
- "Charge the batteries” to raise energy
Situational Stressors
- Setting boundaries and utilizing help
- Mobilizing energy to respond
Interrupt helplessness
- Utilize mentors or lifelines
- Focus on strengths
Positive Impacts of Early Life Adversity
- Prepare to stay connected
- Changing Explanatory style
- Gratitude assignments
Target Audience
Psychologists, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/23/2018
Ron Siegel on Befriending Worry and Anxiety through Mindfulness Practices
Program Information
Outline
- Befriending Worry & Anxiety
- Feeling & Embracing Fear While Maintaining Healthy Functioning
- The Misdirection of Minimizing Fear
- Misunderstanding of Anxiety as Dangerous
- Mindfulness Concept
- Increasing Our Capacity to Bear Experience
- Developing a Higher Resolution Consciousness
- Noticing & Being More Sensitive to Life Experience
- Feeling Anxiety Vividly Without Getting into Avoidance Behavior Traps
- Client Resistance to Feeing Anxiety
- The Essence of Anxiety Disorders is Avoidance of Anxiety
- Develop the Resources to Feel Anxiety
- Coping Mechanisms Lose Effectiveness Over Time
- Curing Anxiety
- Curing is Learning to No Longer Fear the Anxiety
- Being at Home with the Anxiety
- Fully Embracing the Full Range of Human Psychological Experience & Emotion
- Connecting with Ourselves Through Our Emotions & Experience
- Decrease in Using Psychic Resources to Avoid the Problem
- Feelings are Impermanent; Resistance of Feelings Creates Recurrent Patterns of Anxiety
- The Nuts & Bolts of Applied Mindfulness
- Identify Fears
- Identify Recursive Patterns
- Internal Fears of One’s Own Thoughts & Feelings
- Identify Impaired Functioning
- Mindfulness Practices
- Designed to Help Us Be Aware of Present Experience
- Acceptance of Present Experience
- Sensory Awareness
- Metacognitive Awareness
- What to Do with Physical Discomfort
- Allow the Sensations of Discomfort to be the Focus of Awareness
- Initial Amplification of Feelings
- Changes in Feelings
- Passing of Feelings
- Identify Other Emotions Underlying the Feelings
- Examples: Panic Attacks, Psychedelic Trips
- Therapists & Mindfulness
- Resources: www.mindfulness-solutions.com
- Therapists Practice Mindfulness
- Treatment Goals
- Loosen the Pre-Occupation with Self
- Highlight Our Motivations
- Notice Our Desire to Hold onto Pleasure
- Recognize that “I, Me, & Mine” Can Create Suffering
- The Future of Anxiety Treatment & Mindfulness Practice
- A Professional Shifting Away from Avoiding Anxiety
- Difficulty Identifying to What Degree Coping Strategies Should be Used
- Therapists Practicing Mindfulness
- Mindfulness as the Antidote to Addictive Behaviors
- Mindfulness as Transformative
Objectives
- Compare mindfulness to traditional avoidance-based treatments for anxiety and evaluate mindfulness as an effective treatment option for anxiety.
- Articulate the nature of anxiety, the behaviors that create patterns of anxiety, and the role of symbolism in maintaining anxiety.
- Analyze the use of mindfulness techniques to increase our capacity to bear uncomfortable experiences and overcome anxiety through present experience rather than avoidance.
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
07/18/2018
Lynn Lyons on Treating Anxiety in Children
Program Information
Outline
- Causes of Anxiety in Children
- Family History
- Significant Events
- Understanding the Difference between Worry & Anxiety
- Cognitive Thoughts
- Physical Feelings
- Differences between Child and Adult Manifestations of Anxiety
- Impact of Anxious Parents on Children
- Well-Intentioned Catastrophizing
- Parent-Only Anxiety Treatment
- Impact of Society’s Tendency toward Distraction on Anxiety
- Practical Techniques for Anxiety Treatment
- “Of Course” Normalizing Worry
- Externalizing & Naming Worry
- Proactive Responses to Worry
- Interactions Between Anxiety and Depression
- Tendency Toward Isolation
- The Role of the Therapist in Anxiety Treatment
Objectives
- Differentiate between child and adult experiences and manifestations of anxiety for more effective treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate practical techniques and strategies for reframing our understanding of the role of anxiety and reducing symptoms of anxiety to improve client functioning.
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/05/2019