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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?
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. 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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Perhaps the most significant departure from classical family therapy is MST's inclusiveness: it'll basically incorporate any therapeutic idea, as long as it's been proven to work in rigorous evaluations. For example, MST therapists will often incorporate Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), because so many troubled teenagers suffer some degree of depression along with their antisocial behavior. The therapists instruct the primary caretakers in the principles and practice of CBT, which they can then use as long as needed. Similarly, MST therapists don't hesitate to recommend drugs, especially for the many antisocial kids with attention problems that impair their schooling. The demand for proven interventions has intensified in recent years, as cash-strapped public health agencies are feeling pressure to show taxpayers hard results. This has been a boon for MST. Although a typical intervention takes months and requires a 24-7 commitment of the therapist's time, even this investment is cost effective when compared to the price of running a kid through the juvenile justice system, providing residential treatment, or imprisonment. The approach has been so effective with juvenile delinquents that some localities are experimenting with it as an intervention for kids with psychiatric disorders alone, which is sometimes paid for by Medicaid. Interestingly, despite its significant debt to the geniuses of family therapy, few MST practitioners are trained in family therapy. That's the way Henggeler likes it. "Too much familiarity with family therapy can actually get in the way of effective work with kids," he says. "It's harder for family therapists to switch to our multidimensional approach." Just as in any family system, it appears, the offspring--even the offspring of family therapy itself--must eventually break with the parent to fulfill their potential. Wray Herbert is a Washington, D.C. writer who specializes in psychology and mental health issues. |
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