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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?
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. 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.
 NETWORKER EXCHANGE The Tug-of-War over TraumaSusan Clancy’s article, “The Trauma Myth”, published in the March/April Networker, is getting renewed buzz from its recent appearance on Alternet.com. This excerpt, from her book with the same title, has fueled a wide range of reactions, from appreciation to disgust. Clancy writes that as a Harvard grad student in the 1990s, she participated in a series of studies in which adults who had experienced sexual abuse as children were interviewed to determine what effects the abuse had later on in their lives. Clancy says before she began the interviews, she was certain that the abuse would be remembered as a terrible experience that had always been terrifying. But: “In nearly all the cases, the adults I questioned had not experienced the abuse as traumatic when it occurred and only came to regard it as so years later.” One victim told her that what the abuse was like when it happened, and what it was like later were “two separate things entirely.” This caused Clancy to wonder why a car accident is traumatic at the time it happens and later in a person’s memory, while sexual abuse would become traumatic only later? Her conclusion: “According to victims, they did not experience the abuse as awful when it happened because most simply did not understand clearly the meaning or significance of the sexual behaviors they were engaging in.” Some have taken the word “myth” in Clancy’s concept of signifying that her basic idea is that sexual abuse is not traumatic and have reacted very strongly. Others have understood it to mean that the trauma currently used by mental health professionals is leading to ineffective treatment for sexual abuse victims. I invite you to read the excerpt (or the whole book!) and see what you think. Many readers have expressed sincere gratitude for Clancy’s conclusions while others claim that her notions are inherently flawed. What do you think? Comments  |
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