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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

Casey Truffo On Structuring A Therapeutic Intensive

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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Clinicians Digest May/June 2008

 

Clinicians Digest May/June 2008

Do Antidepressants Work?

By Garry Cooper

For the second time in six years, a metanalysis led by psychologist Irving Kirsch asserts that antidepressants are no more effective than placebos (see November/December 2002 Networker). Like his earlier analysis, Kirsch analyzes both published clinical trials and the raw data that pharmaceutical companies are required to submit to the Food and Drug Administration. This time, Kirsch asks whether the same antidepressants he studied earlier—Prozac, Effexor, Serzone, and Paxil—work better than placebo on severe depression. The answer, he says, is still no.

Kirsch insists that using the raw data enables him to avoid the well-known bias toward positive results inherent in published studies of antidepressants. A study in the January 17 New England Journal of Medicine, for example, reports that 94 percent of the published trials were positive, whereas only about 50 percent the unpublished studies were. Raw data, unlike published studies, aren't methodologically tweaked to insure positive results.

Like Kirsch's earlier study, the new one, in the February online journal Public Library of Science Medicine, has generated considerable controversy. Much of the criticism focuses on his decisions about what constitutes clinical effectiveness, which his detractors say were arbitrary and ignored the considerable number of individuals who show marked improvement. Using the same data as Kirsch, psychiatrist Eric Turner and psychologist Robert Rosenthal conclude that each drug is indeed superior to placebo in the March 8 online edition of the British Medical Journal.

Nevertheless, in the wake of Kirsch's study, British Health Secretary Alan Johnson has announced plans to train 3,600 more therapists, hoping that with more therapists available, doctors won't reach as quickly for their prescription pads.

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