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Target Audience
Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Nurses Other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Demonstrate to clients the neurological processes underlying anxiety in a clearly understandable manner that enhances client motivation.
- Incorporate personalized goals to increase client engagement and focus client efforts on making lasting changes in the brain.
- Characterize the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety symptoms in order to select the most effective treatment interventions.
- Individualize practical and evidence-based methods to resist anxiety and improve symptom management in clients.
- Demonstrate strategies for calming the amygdala without use of medication to improve client level of functioning.
- Recommend exposure-based strategies that change the amygdala responses to triggers to reduce anxiety symptoms.
- Employ a variety of strategies to improve clinical outcomes utilizing evidence-based strategies that target cortex-based responding, including cognitive restructuring, psychoeducation, cognitive defusion, distraction, and mindfulness.
- Differentiate symptom-producing cognitions characteristic of specific disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to case conceptualization.
- Analyze the clinical implications of how SSRIs and SNRIs promote the process of treating anxiety.
- Determine detrimental effects of benzodiazepines as it relates to anxiety treatment outcomes.
- Differentiate between rebound anxiety and relapse symptoms to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Breakdown the key elements of mindfulness practices in managing symptoms of anxiety.
- Present client education exercises that can be utilized in session to train clients in the use of mindfulness techniques.
- Appraise common reactions to aversion and utilize clinical strategies to replace them with mindfulness.
- Reframe exposure as an opportunity to teach the amygdala new responses in order to improve client engagement and treatment compliance.
- Utilize clinical strategies for exposure that reduce avoidance and train clients to push through anxiety.
- Employ effective strategies for reducing anxiety symptoms utilizing imaginal and in vivo exposure, including use of SUDS and attention to interceptive triggers.
- Provide clinical strategies for managing comorbid depression that reduce worry, rumination, and common cognitive errors while promoting positive thinking and social interaction.
- Use cognitive restructuring and cognitive strategies for managing symptoms of OCD and GAD that focus on scheduling obsession/worries and promote client acceptance of uncertainty.
- Implement interventions in a clinical setting that use a reconsolidation approach to reactivate a symptom-producing memory and disconfirm it.
Outline
Module 3: Managing the Cortex
- Explaining the Cortex’s Role in Anxiety
- How the cortex constructs reality for us
- Describing the cortex and its functions in understandable terms
- The fear/anxiety response comes from the amygdala, but the cortex can initiate the response
- Using the concept “Don’t scare your amygdala”
- Understanding and resisting the detrimental effects of anticipation
- Teaching the appropriate use of worry to minimize its detrimental effects
- Managing the Cortex
- Cortex management is essential for GAD, SAD, OCD, PTSD, and Depression
- Identifying specific cognitions, beliefs, attitudes, associated with specific anxiety disorders
- “Survival of the busiest” - understanding how to modify the cortex
- Changes in cortex responses can occur through education, logic, argument, and experience
- “You can’t erase: You must replace.”
- Modifying interpretations and using coping thoughts to manage anxiety
- The appropriate use of distraction
- Right vs. left hemisphere interventions
- Cognitive Therapy - modifying the cognitions mediating emotional responses
- Cognitive fusion - recognizing the problem and how to use cognitive defusion
- CBT cognitive restructuring approaches for targeting cortex-based processes
- Mindfulness approaches to reducing anxiety, and their effect on the cortex
- A cognitive model for approaching OCD
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