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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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Are Antipsychotic Meds Necessary? These days, we practically take for granted that antipsychotic medications are the front- line treatment for a first psychotic breakdown. The American Psychiatric Association's treatment guidelines for schizophrenia, for example, recommend initiating antipsychotic medications "as soon as feasible." Several researchers, however, believe that antipsychotic medications for some first-time users are unnecessary and perhaps even contraindicated. For a sizeable percentage of people, they say, milieu therapy--providing a supportive psychoeducation environment that includes individual, group, and family work--should be the first treatment, with medications used if the therapy doesn't work or if clients present a clear danger to themselves or others. There are several reasons behind the growing discomfort with automatically prescribing antipsychotics. Schizophrenic disorder, like depression, is increasingly seen as an umbrella concept that casts such a wide net over different biological and psychological causes and manifestations that no single treatment is likely to be the most effective. There's also a growing disenchantment with antipsychotics. Despite their initial promise, the new atypical antipsychotics have turned out to have serious side effects and to not be as effective as first thought. Also, the assumption that schizophrenia's damage to the brain inexorably increases over time hasn't been borne out by neuroimaging studies. In the May issue of Research on Social Work Practice, Associate Professor of Social Work John Bola of the University of Southern California cites several studies that find that between 20 and 40 percent of people who suffer a psychotic episode recover fully or functionally without medications. Bola speculates that some of the control group patients in the studies who improved on antipsychotics might have done equally well without the meds, and he wonders whether meds might actually impede full recovery for some patients. Which people might need meds and which might recover without them? Preliminary research suggests that people most likely to recover without meds have an absence of paranoia, a first psychotic onset in middle age, a family history of affective disorders, and adequate social functioning and absence of personality disturbances prior to the first onset.
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