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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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Larry cut off Susan's self-flagellation. "No problem, don't be silly. We've had plenty. It's a wonderful dinner." I wanted to tell her how I'd once passed off store-bought chicken paprikash on my unsuspecting in-laws, but I knew to keep my mouth shut. Unfortunately, my mouth had sprung back into action as soon as Hannah had been born. Before the hat and after the pillow there was the fever episode. "She's burning up," lamented Susan one day as Hannah lay on a quilt on the floor, kicking her feet and grinning, making me want to grin back. I bent down and placed my hand on her head. "She feels cool to me." Blessedly I stopped before saying "You'll learn to gauge these things as you become more experienced." But, alas, I'd said enough. Susan quickly scooped Hannah up and dashed off to find the thermometer, not bothering to say good-bye. I called out, "Let me know if there's anything I can do," but she didn't answer, and I never found out whether Hannah was feverish or not. Larry and I had eagerly anticipated becoming grandparents, and we were thrilled with Hannah, but it was clear that we were heading for a grandparenting trainwreck. What to do? I called up an old friend who had four grandchildren and described the situation. "Bring presents," she said. "Anything little, but nothing sharp and no small parts—soft books, age appropriate. Open a college fund, give money even if you can't afford it. And, oh yes, I forgot the most important thing," my friend said, pausing for emphasis. "Don't talk. Volunteer nothing. I mean nothing. Nada. Just smile and maybe occasionally say something like 'That's nice, dear,' but remember: speak as little as possible and bring presents. Never pass a toy store without going in." It hasn't been easy—there've been numerous slip-ups—but Larry and I have learned the lesson well. Now he bites his tongue when he watches Hannah eat the third ice cream of the day. I've learned to love safari-style hats (they do, after all, keep the sun off a child's neck). And although we hug and kiss Hannah as much as we can, we never, ever put a hand to her forehead to see if she's feverish. That's her parents' job. We've mastered the grandparents' mantra: "Keep your mouth closed and your purse open." "Jeanne Mills" is a New York writer and a longtime Networker fan, who's using a pseudonym here for obvious reasons. Letters to the Editor about this department may be e-mailed to letters@psychnetworker.org. |
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