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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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P005 Additional Presenter Resources

Presenter Resources for "Diets and Our Demons"

Session #1 with Judith Matz:

Judith's Websites:
www.judithmatz.com
www.dietsurvivors.com (includes sign-up for free quarterly e-mail newsletter)

Judith's Books:
Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapist's Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating (Brunner/Routledge 2004)
The Diet Survivor's Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care (Sourcebooks 2006)

Examples of research related to weight, health, diet failure, intuitive/attuned eating:
(Please note all can be found online by googling key words)
Mann, T. et al. (2007) Medicare's search for effective obesity treatment: Diets are not the Answer.  American Psychologist, Vol. 62, No 3, 220-233.
Bacon, L. and Aphramor, L. (2011). Weight science: Evaluating the evidence for a paradigm shift. Nutrition Journal.
Flegal, K. et al.(2005). Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity, Journal of the American Medical Association. 293(15), 861-1867. (Researcher with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), lowering estimate from 300,000 to 400,000 excess deaths per year down to 25,814 deaths per year, and finding greater risk - 33,746 per year - for underweight.)
Hawks, S., et al. (2005). Relationship between intuitive eating and health indicators among college women. American Journal of Health Education, 336(6), 331-336.
Bacon, L. et al., (2005). Size acceptance and intuitive eating improve health for obese, female chronic dieters. Journal of the American Dietetic Association,105(6): 929-936.
Orpana, H.M. et al (2009) BMI and mortality: Results from a national longitudinal study of Canadian adults. Obesity Journal, 18:1, 214-218.

Health Issues
I get a lot of questions about using attuned eating with health related issues, such as diabetes.  You can read the article I co-authored for the magazine Diabetes Self-Management at: http://www.dietsurvivors.com/BaconMatz_Diabetes_EnjoyingFood.pdf

Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight also has a wealth of research and information about weight, health, attuned eating and nutritional concerns.

If you need any additional resources, please feel free to contact Judith: judith@judithmatz.com

 

Ethics Continuing Education

Psychotherapy Networker is the most trusted choice for ethics, continuing education, and current research and trends from the psychotherapy community. The magazine receives national acclaim and has been awarded many prestigious honors. Its groundbreaking website acts as a reliable online resource for all therapists.

For training in ethics and risk management, Networker's continuing education programs offer therapists many opportunities for selecting a learning format that suits their preferred style. There are diverse educational opportunities including streaming-video webinars, MP3 audio, and reading courses based on articles from the magazine as well as comment boards aimed at particular areas of study.

Psychotherapy Networker strives to foster the growth of a broad and diverse community of therapists. In addition to the variety of ethics courses, the site offers such popular topics as couples therapy, brain science and psychotherapy, and mindfulness. You can also find a database of free articles, blogs, and information. You don't have to be a member to benefit from the free resources, but online membership is free, easy, and gives an even wider range of resource choices. Click here to register now.

Making ethical choices is fundamental to the practice of psychotherapy, and the topic of proper ethics remains controversial and difficult for many therapists to navigate. You are not alone in your concern for treating clients with proper and deserved respect. The Networker encourages debate and discourse among practitioners in order to improve our community and understanding of ethical issues--particularly the impact of the changing online environment. 

If you're looking for trustworthy resources on ethics, continuing education, and other important issues, look no further than the Psychotherapy Networker, America's premier therapy publication and online community.