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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

Clinicians Digest May/June 2008 - Page 4


Coyne isn't opposed to support groups that are run by people well-trained to control stress and discourage rumination, and who understand that the group's goals have nothing to do with increasing survival. He thinks that sharing information, having a sense of community, and finding help with practical issues like getting rides to appointments can provide considerable comfort and support. "But if you ask many cancer patients why they want a support group," he says, "they'll say to strengthen their immune system and increase their chance of survival."

Encouraging the false idea that support groups increase survival rates can build false hopes and stigmatize cancer patients who don't participate. "Having a positive outlook won't extend the quantity of life," Coyne says. "And not everyone who has cancer is capable of feeling positive."

Trusting Therapists' Intuition

You've been successfully helping your anxious client learn to calm herself. Sometime between her appointments, you realize that about once each session, you've noticed a quick, barely perceptible twitch at the corner of her mouth. What does it mean? Is there a pattern? Then the thought disappears from your mind again. After all, she's been making progress. Next thing you know, she drops out of therapy.

In an era of behavioral interventions and empirically supported treatments, therapists' intuition—the subconscious sense that something important has happened during a session—has received scant attention. But as Theodor Reik wrote in 1948, therapists constantly are noticing a great deal subliminally—gestures, sense of touch while shaking hands, breath, choice of words, tone of voice, little stresses on certain words, vocal modulations, and rhythm.

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