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Treatment Resistant Anxiety, Worry & Panic: 60 Effective Strategies

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Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

Demonstrate components of the “anxiety spiral” and utilize several evidence-based strategies (including self-controlled desensitization) to prevent exacerbation of symptoms.
Demonstrate five potential anxiety treatment pitfalls and learn evidence-based approaches to avoid or correct them.
Employ 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.
Differentiate the clinical presentation of panic, worry and fear of guilt and how they compare to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and other anxiety disorders.
Develop clinical skills to address treatment-resistant issues, including perfectionism, subjugation, procrastination, illness anxiety disorder, 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

An Alternative Way to Do Cognitive Therapy – B3s
Find Alternative Thoughts
The Role of “Shoulds” and “Need To’s”
Change to “Want To’s”
The Humor of Worry
Deal 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
Remove 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

Illness Anxiety Disorder and Fear of Untimely Death
Perfectionism
Subjugation
Catastrophizing/Intolerance of Uncertainty
Procrastination

Copyright : 11/03/2016

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques

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Objectives

Determine 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.
Perform effective use of diaphragmatic breathing techniques for physiological modulation in the treatment of anxiety.
Demonstrate how the process of memory reconsolidation can be utilized to reduce reactivity to trauma cues, including shame trauma, that trigger social anxiety or panic attacks and sets up effective exposures to promote rapid recovery.
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

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Teachers, School Administrators, Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

Determine 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.
Perform effective use of diaphragmatic breathing techniques for physiological modulation in the treatment of anxiety.
Demonstrate how the process of memory reconsolidation can be utilized to reduce reactivity to trauma cues, including shame trauma, that trigger social anxiety or panic attacks and sets up effective exposures to promote rapid recovery.
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.

Copyright : 01/19/2017

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

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Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/18/2016

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

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Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals

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

A Mindful Yoga Practice for Healing Depression

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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

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals