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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.
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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?
By 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. 
 NETWORKER EXCHANGE Diets and Our Demons
“It’s that time of the year again,” writes Judith Matz in her cover piece on our national obsession with dieting in the January/February Networker. “Every January, the weight-loss frenzy begins anew as the overeating of the holiday season subsides and millions of us resolve that this will be the year that we will lose weight and keep it off.” Our national cornucopia spilleth over our waistlines in rolls of fat even more than it did 13 years ago: obesity rates were 15 to 20 percent in 1995, and about 34 percent in 2008. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us we’ve become an “obesogenic” society, “characterized by environments that promote increased food intake, nonhealthful foods, and physical inactivity.” For more information, click here.
As every therapist knows, we eat for emotional, as well as physiological, reasons--out of boredom, anger, sadness, anxiety, and self-hatred. Food, like drugs or alcohol, is a great anesthetic for pain, a distraction from suffering. In our January issue, “Diets and Our Demons,” we look at the unqualified failure of the dieting industry--despite billions spent on weight-loss programs and products, 95 to 98 percent of dieters regain the weight they lost. Do therapists know something that the weight-loss industry doesn’t? For a variety of answers to this question, check out not only Judith Matz’s cover piece on the attuned eating movement, but Judith Beck on the CBT approach to dieting and Lisa Ferentz’s remarkably candid piece on how she overcame her fear and aversion to working with eating disordered clients. By the way, Matz, Beck, and Ferentz will all be offering workshops at the upcoming Symposium. Also in the January Networker, make sure to look out for “Cyberspaced,” keynoter Sherry Turkle’s provocative interview about the need to face the profound psychological and therapeutic challenges of today’s ever-more-seductive technologies. It’ll give you another reason to attend this year’s conference. What’s been your experience of treating people--eating-disordered or not--who wish to improve their relationship with food? Is dieting really dead as a viable weight-loss solution? Let us know how you feel about all things food and eating. Rich Simon Comments  |
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Sadly some medications do a large disservice to control weight and leave the gainer with difficulties they truly don't deserve. Thankfully addressing the diet portions that are greatly effected by emotions can be helpful..