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PP0004: Treating Anxiety: The Latest Advances

Dramatically shorten treatment time and improve clinical effectiveness with a new powerful motivational approach to anxiety and other presenting problems. Join David Burns as he uncovers and dispels resistance to treatment and enhances collaboration between therapist and client. Learn how to clearly convey neuroscience information to clients in ways that can have a calming effect and enhance treatment effectiveness. Join Margaret Wehrenberg as she reviews how brain science has allowed therapists to match treatment to the brain structures characterizing anxiety and discusses why it is helpful for clients to have an understanding of neuroscience in treatment. Expand your understanding of the sources for different kinds of anxiety along with your repertoire of interventions. Join Danie Beaulieu as she explores what metaphors, visual images, and multisensory messages you can use to more fully engage clients and achieve greater impact than is possible with purely word-bound communication. Learn techniques drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming that target the auditory and visual representations that clients make. Join Steve Andreas as he brings about immediate and enduring changes in clients perceptions and feelings as they deal with anxiety. Learn the 3-step program to help parents and children deal with anxiety. Join Lynn Lyons as she teaches exercises that help normalize anxiety (de-catastrophize it), externalize it (turn the internal state into external metaphors that can be dealt with more readily), and experiment with it (find innovative, playful ways to deal with it). Join Reid Wilson as he explores a step-by-step approach that helps clients shift their relationship with panic so they can overcome their anxiety. By gradually learning to approach, exaggerate, personify, and caricature panic, the client is able override the responses that perpetuate anxiety. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

Creating Multiple Streams of Income with Casey Truffo

Expand Your Practice: NP0037 – Session 3

Learn how to leverage your time and energy by distinguishing between having a job and running a business. Join Casey Truffo as she discusses how to increase your income, include new offerings in your practice, and still deliver your therapeutic services. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.

Whatever Happened to Parental Authority?

Parental AuthorityBy Rich Simon It seems astonishing that even just two or three decades ago, parents not only pretty much knew what was expected of them to turn their offspring into civilized adults, but they could actually count on society to back them up. Even more astounding, kids seemed to understand this, too. Even if they rebelled against, yelled about, or sullenly resented how “unfair” adults were, they seemed to acknowledge adult authority and realize that they would just have to wait until they turned 18 to get for themselves the keys to the kingdom of grown-up independence.

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Branding Your Practice with Joe Bavonese

Expand Your Practice: NP0037 – Session 2

Do you have a "message" about your practice but find it hard to put into words? Do you think that social media websites might help grow your practice? Join Joe Bavonese as he helps you market your practice more effectively in today's highly technological world. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
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NP0013 Is Mindfulness Enough?

This blog focuses on discussion regarding the course NP0013 Is Mindfulness Enough?
 
 

NP0013, Mindfulness, Session 4, Michael Yapko

 
What do mindfulness practices and clinical hypnosis have in common? Michael Yapko, a clinical psychologist internationally recognized for his work in clinical hypnosis, will expound upon the practical lessons hypnosis may have to teach therapists about the vital role of suggestion in the change process. Explore the similarities between mindfulness and clinical hypnosis, and decide for yourself whether there are clinically significant connections between mindfulness and hypnosis techniques.

After the session, please take a few minutes to take a look at the Comment Board and let us know what you think. Do you have any experience with clinical hypnosis practices? If not, would you consider bringing these techniques into the consulting room? Do you have any questions for the presenter or your colleagues? We invite you to share your thoughts and questions, as well as sharing your name and hometown with your comments. If you have any technical questions, please feel free to contact support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Thanks for your participation.

02.02.2012   Posted In: NP0013 Is Mindfulness Enough?   By Psychotherapy Networker
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  • 0 avatar Jan Snedigar 02.02.2012 14:19
    Oh,wow, this hour just flew by--totally absorbing. Extremely helpful is Mr. Yapko's statement that dissociative states are neutral, and can, essentially go either way. . . and as therapists how we generally think of dissociative states ONLY in the context of disturbed/dysfunctional patterns. It's a powerful and instructive reframing in itself to think of positive dissociative states as being a resource that can be developed and cultivated . . .
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  • 0 avatar Rebekah Feeser 02.02.2012 14:35
    I appreciated his (your) underlining our clients' contextual realities, and within this awareness to suggest workable and new possibilities for desired change. No either/or thinking here! Thanks.
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  • Not available avatar Lyn Benson 02.04.2012 00:33
    Hi Michael Greetings from Melbourne, Australia! Really enjoyed your presentation. As usual your comments were thought provoking and enjoyably provocative. Have a great 2012 Kind regards
    Lyn Benson Psychologist
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  • Not available avatar Sneha Nikam 02.05.2012 02:27
    Hello to both Michael and Rich Sir,
    this was really interesting an interesting session, enyoyed listening about hispnosis and dissociation, with an ultimate meaning behind it as - we individual who actually make those experience real and not these techniques. Such a powerful our imagination and cognitive abilities are. Three cheers for born as human being.

    I actually missed watching 3rd Mindfulness and 2nd Diets and Demons session because of busy schedule this month. Anyways not a problem. Take care.

    Best Regards,
    Sneha.
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  • 0 avatar Heidi Roth 02.06.2012 12:51
    I am still processing Michael's ideas. Some thoughts I have are how much what he is saying about suggestability is applicable to all forms of therapy. As therapists we are always making suggestions, reframing, etc. so to be more intentional and aware of how and for whom these suggestions will be most valuable or effective is important. I am excited to dig a little deeper into the hypnosis literature & social psychology literature to explore these issues further.
    I also believe that mindfulness not only involves visualizations & suggestions during visualizations, but also involves important teachings about how to attend to experiences that enhance & can be well integrated into the therapeutic process that goes beyond Michael's discussion of what mindfulness is all about. While I am a very spiritual person, I find Marsha Linehan's approach to mindfulness very helpful and often more acceptable to clients who are not interested in approach based in a spiritual language.
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  • Not available avatar Kryss Brown 02.07.2012 05:52
    What impressed me-yet again-is that regardless of the therapeutic approach one chooses, &/or a client's religious beliefs, therapists must begin-as well as continue-to treat a client from where he or she is personally at any given time. To not, is too often too easy.
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