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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.
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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. 
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It's now eight months since I was in Rwanda, and we're actively raising funds for continuation of the prison project. I'll carry the lessons I learned there for the rest of my life. Working at the most fundamental level of biological programming strips things down to the basic responses to trauma—the place we all share simply because we're human. Having come face-to-face with what many would consider the very heart of darkness, I've had plenty of opportunity to reflect on the concept of good and evil. I'll never forget the experience of looking into the eyes of the genocidaires I interviewed and seeing, not evil, but bewilderment, anguish, and even gentleness. As I write this, I imagine people reading this thinking: "What a typical do-gooder Westerner! If these genocidaires are so gentle, how did they slaughter hundreds of people?" But the reality in Rwanda is that one day these prisoners will go back to their villages. What chance do they have for reintegration without programs that help heal their trauma, so that they can accept responsibility for the horror they perpetrated and find a way to reenter the human community? When I try to make sense of what took place in Rwanda, I'm reminded of something Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch wrote: The simplified accounts of genocide allow distance between us and the perpetrators of genocide. They are so evil we couldn't ever see ourselves doing the same thing. But if you consider the terrible pressure under which people were operating, you are forced to look at the situation and say, "What would I have done?" Sometimes the answer is not encouraging. Laurie Leitch, Ph.D., is cofound and codirector of development and evaluation for theResource Institute, which offers training in the brief stabilization model Trauma Trauma Resiliency Model First Aide. She's the director of research for The Foundation for Human Enrichment. Contact: l.leitch@comcast.net. Letters to the Editor about this article may be e-mailed to letters@psychnetworker.org. The following Networker U Courses on this subject or by this author are available at www.psychotherapynetworker.org: Articles by Author "A Post-Tsunami Diary" - November/December 2005 Audio Home Study A-220 Advances in Trauma Treatment CE Credits: 6 Instructor: Christine Courtois Online Courses OL-101 The Frontiers of Trauma Treatment CE Credits: 3 Interviewees: Bessel Van der Kolk, Mary Wylie, Babette Rothschild, Janet Goldfein OL-113 The Body in Psychotherapy CE Credits: 3 Interviewees: Mary Wylie, Christine Caldwell, Rob Fisher, Ilana Rubenfeld |
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