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Motivating the Anxious Client: A Paradoxical Approach
OUTLINE
- Paradoxical Agenda-Setting
- Outcome Resistance
- Techniques to Deal with Client Resistance
- The Motivational Revolution
- Experimental Technique
- The Biggest Mistake a Therapist can Make
OBJECTIVES
- Explain the basic principles underlying 4 models of brief anxiety treatment (cognitive, exposure, motivational, and hidden emotion).
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
09/17/2012
The Neurobiology of Anxiety
OUTLINE
- Helping Clients Understand the Neurobiology of Anxiety
- The Amydgala
- Determining How Clients are Changing Their Lives to Avoid Panic-Inducing Situations
- Anixety-Reducing Strategies
- Present Day vs. Past Anxiety
OBJECTIVES
- Understand how brain science has allowed therapists to match treatment to the brain structures characterizing anxiety.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
09/24/2012
Interrupting the Anxiety Cycle
OUTLINE
- Etiologies of Anxiety
- Guilt and Shame
- Vulnerability State
- OBJECTIVES
- Discuss why nonverbal communication is effective with clients who suffer from anxiety.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/01/2012
Single-Session Cures with Anxiety Problems
OUTLINE
- Directed Mindfulness and Anxiety
- The "Spinning Feeling" Technique
- Nonverbal Communication
- Objections to Change in the Client
OBJECTIVES
- Illustrate how techniques drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming can rapidly cure anxiety.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/08/2012
Defeating Panic
OUTLINE
- Core Principles when Working with Clients with Panic Disorders
- Introceptive Exposure
- Panic Disorder
- "Peak Season" of Panic Disorder
- What to do in Initial Sessions
- Safety Crutches
- Getting Past Panic Disorder
OBJECTIVES
- Discuss how to help clients gradually understand how to approach and overcome their anxiety.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
07/27/2012
Lifting the Trance of Depression
OUTLINE
- Marbling
- Nuanced Language
- The Primary Problem when it Comes to Depression
- Prolonged Depression
- Encouraging Brain Growth
- Main Pitfalls for Therapists
OBJECTIVES
- Explain paradoxical agenda setting.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/06/2013
Overcoming Resistance in Depression Treatment
OUTLINE
- The Ten Cognitive Distortions
- The Key to Therapeutic Resistance in Depression Treatment
- Cognitive Techniques
- The Paradoxical Agenda Setting
OBJECTIVES
- Explain paradoxical agenda setting.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/06/2013
Depression: An Experimental Approach
OUTLINE
- Difficulties in Defining and Diagnosing Depression
- Antidepressants
- Therapeutic Treatments for Depression
- Skill-Building
- Internal Orientation
- Hypnosis
OBJECTIVES
- Describe the advantages of therapy over medication when working with depressed clients.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/06/2013
The Mindful Way Through Depression
OUTLINE
- Paying Attention to the Client's Thoughts without Getting Pulled Into Them
- Mindfulness and Depression
- Building the Capacity to Pay Attention
- The Breathing Space Exercise
OBJECTIVES
- Distinguish between cognitive therapy and mindfulness practice.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/13/2013
When Depression and Anxiety Co-Occur
OUTLINE
- Anxiety vs. Depression
- Identifying the Client's Motivation
- Control vs. Influence
- Working with Clients who are "Worried and Exhausted"
- The "Quiet Avoider"
OBJECTIVES
- Explain the correlations between anxiety 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
Copyright :
11/13/2013
The Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Identify the clinical implications of behavioral activation and action plans.
Outline
- Steps to Treating Depression
- The Second Session with a Depressed Client
- Tone of Voice
- Evaluating Clients' Core Beliefs
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11/13/2013
A Mind-Body Approach to Depression
OUTLINE:
- Understanding their depression not as a disorder, but as spiritual journey and identity crisis
- Incorporating movement, physical exercise, shaking, and dancing into your work
- Recognizing the vital role that imagery and expressive drawings can play in treatment
- Exploring the roles of nutrition and herbal supplements as an alternative to psychopharmacology
OBJECTIVES:
- Identify effective treatment alternatives to medications.
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Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
06/05/2013
33 Tips and Tools for the Anxiety Toolbox: Using CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and ACT
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- List simple and practical anxiety-reduction techniques to teach your client.
- Identify trademark techniques from CBT, ACT, DBT and MBCT how they are effective in treating anxiety.
- Prepare activities that your client can do between sessions to lessen anxiety and track progress.
- Describe effective psycho-educational strategies that you can use immediately to help your client lower anxiety.
- Prepare valuable handouts and worksheets to help your anxious client.
Outline
Effective Therapy for Anxiety
- Debunk myths about anxiety
- Distinguish between productive and unproductive worry
- Differentiate anxiety from fear
- Homework between sessions
CBT Strategies for Anxiety
- CBT log to change anxious thinking
- Self-defeating beliefs inventory sheet
- Hidden emotion technique
- Feared fantasy technique
- Exposure techniques
- Flooding activity
- Systematic desensitization
- Vertical arrow technique
- Cost/benefit analysis
- Developing a fear hierarchy
DBT Strategies
- Acronyms to help with anxiety
- Core mindfulness strategies that calm and heal
- Emotional regulation techniques
- Mindfulness tips
- Radical acceptance
- Distress tolerance techniques
- Daily logs
ACT Strategies
- Diffusion techniques
- Using metaphors to calm and soothe
- Acceptance strategies
- Floating leaves visualization
- Other ACT visualizations
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
- Calming the mind and the body
- Mindful walking
- Relaxation techniques
- Anxiety-busting activity for individuals and/or groups
- Construct an anxiety-reduction metaphorical toolkit
Copyright :
06/02/2014
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
Copyright :
06/02/2014