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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.
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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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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. 
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I am late to the conversation but would like to comment on the AAI from the slides. As a student of the DMM-Dynamic Maturational Model, I am unfamiliar with any other discourse analysis. As a result, I find the terms "dismissive" and "preoccupied" somewhat confusing, although I am aware that they are widely used. One reason that I find the terms confusing is that, as I understand it, preoccupied can also include those who are preoccupied with others at the expense of themselves (compulsive A strategies, i.e., trying to please others, overly concerned about the views of others, etc.) as well as, those who are preoccupied with themselves at the expense of others (traditional preoccupied or C strategies). I propose, likewise, that anyone can be dismissive-they may be dismissive of cognition (C) or dismissive of affect (A). In this way, people who use C strategies are often the ones who say, "I can't remember anything about my childhood!" because they lack procedural, episodic memory and are so affect laden. I do not mean to over simplify complex neurobiological processes, only to point out that there are some discrepancies in our approach to attachment theory. I have tried to include a picture of the DMM to illustrate my point, but I am sorry to say my blogging experience is limited, so I'm not sure that it will work- but I will give it a try! If I don't succeed the model can also be found at www.iasa-dmm.orgorwww.patcrittenden.com
Dan, I very much admire your work and have read ALL your books. Every therapist I know refers to your work often. I invite you to read Crittenden,P.M. & Landini, A.( 2011) Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic Approach to Discourse AnalysisNew York: Norton
I would also like to invite ypu to attend the next International Association for the Study of AttachmentI (iasa) conference, which I believe will be in Bonn, Germany in 2012. The last conference was in Cambridge, UK and the plenary speakers were Peter Fonagy and Michael Meany! It was an amazing conference! I must confess that I suggested in my comment/suggestion form that you be invited to speak at the next conference. It never hurts to suggest!
Thank you for your contributions to the debate,
Jane King
I've been studying Patricia Crittenden's Dynamic Maturation Model (DMM). Her approach to attachment is in understanding attachment as a self-protective, adaptation to danger. In this light, anxious attachment is seen as necessary for survival. This greatly changes ideas in working with children and families and, I find, promotes understanding and compassion. Instead of trying to change behavior and create security, one works harder to understand the danger and increase safety - physical or psychological.
Crittenden incorporates Bronfenbrenner's theory of social ecology into the DMM. This involves a nested system theory where the systems of global, political, community and family, interact in a transactional way effecting individual outcomes.
Perhaps, we, in the West, have been feeling very safe and not giving any thought to our Mother! Of course, this could change at any moment. We are never really secure ...but always needing to adapt. That's life!