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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.

Why Clients Will Pay More For An Intensive Session

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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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The Worry Hill - Page 8


Maria agreed that she'd practice this exercise three times daily at home with her parents until she no longer felt any anxiety from reading about hepatitis. She'd end the exercise when her feeling temperature was down to 2 or 3. I reminded Maria and her parents to stay with the assigned task, and not get ahead of themselves—all else should remain the same until we'd collaboratively agreed to proceed.

I then discussed with Maria's parents how they could RALLY (Recognize OCD episodes; Ally with their child; Lead their child to the RIDE; Let go so their child could RIDE on her own; and reward and praise—say Yes, you did it!) for their child. I also set realistic expectations for recovery. Given the urgency for relief, there's often palpable disappointment when parents hear that it may take three to six weeks before their child is appreciably better. Once they understand how treatment works, however, most families realize that recovery is a journey, not a single event. Parents need to know that each child is unique and progress can occur in fits and starts, ups and downs.

In the next session, Maria was ready for the next ERP exercise on the hierarchy. We reviewed her previous ERP experience to prime her for the upcoming one. She then went to the next item on her Fear Ladder: describing the symptoms and causes of hepatitis to her parents. They were surprised at how calmly she could talk about hepatitis, which previously had been a taboo word.

During the next four sessions, Maria slowly but surely tackled each ERP step on her Fear Ladder. The tasks got harder. Using only a limited amount of toilet paper in the bathroom, sitting on the chairs in my office after using the toilet, and hugging her parents after that were the hardest. Although she struggled at times, she was determined and always made it to the top of the Worry Hill and down again.

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