Full Course Description

2-Day Anxiety Certification Course: Integrate CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention for Treatment of GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, & Phobias

Do you feel overwhelmed by the severity of your client’s anxiety symptoms?

Does their need to seek reassurance and perform compulsions prevent them from moving forward in therapy? You are not alone if you find your clients experiencing the same symptoms after several therapy sessions, if they get stuck on the “why’s” of anxiety, or if they are unable to take meaningful action against their anxiety.

Watch award winning experts in anxiety and OCD—Kimberly Morrow, LSCW & Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C—for this intensive 2-Day Anxiety Certification Course to learn the gold standard of care for treating GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, and Phobias. You’ll learn to skillfully integrate CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to climb over obstacles in therapy and gain confidence in your ability to treat the most symptomatic, anxious clients on your caseload.

In this intensive 2-Day Anxiety Certification Course, experts Morrow and DuPont Spencer make CBT and ERP intervention accessible and within your reach as a clinician.

You’ll start seeing real results with these cutting-edge CBT and ERP interventions, that give you:

Ways to help clients face their triggers and change their relationship with fear
Strategies to manage your own anxiety about treating your anxious clients
Methods to use exposure therapy in meaningful, successful ways
Specific strategies for Panic Disorder, phobias, OCD and social anxiety

Packed with videos, case examples, and opportunities to practice and build skills confidently, you’ll walk away with strategies you can use the very next day!

Don’t miss this opportunity to grow your confidence and your practice while helping your clients get their lives back!

Program Information

Objectives

Demonstrate the CBT session structure with anxious clients in order to achieve positive clinical outcomes.
Assess for and diagnose each DSM-5® anxiety disorder, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, PANS/PANDAS, and Panic Disorder.
Integrate Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) techniques to increase your client’s success.
Utilize strategies that help family members become anxiety “coaches” for the client.
Formulate interventions for challenging automatic negative thoughts in clients who have been diagnosed with anxiety.
Plan when it is clinically appropriate to use extreme exposure interventions with clients.
Demonstrate the use of interoceptive therapy for treating panic in clients.
Analyze the purpose of utilizing paradoxical exposures when treating social anxiety.
Apply knowledge about Generalized Anxiety Disorder to learn how to prevent fears about the future from interfering with quality of life.
Utilize play-based exposure interventions for the treatment of anxiety in children.
Employ Exposure and Response Prevention techniques to reduce symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Formulate treatment termination and relapse prevention plans with clients.

Copyright : 22/04/2021

Hoarding Disorder: Diagnosis, Assessment and Effective Treatment Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

DSM-5® and hoarding diagnostic criteria
Effectively treat hoarding behaviors with lasting results
Get inside the mind of someone with hoarding disorder
Develop collaborative professional relationships to coordinate community response

Hoarding is a complex disorder that isn’t resolved with a forced cleanout, but with customized treatment strategies for each individual. Join hoarding expert, Jennifer Sampson PhD LMFT, as they teach you how to get inside the mind of someone with this compulsive and complicated disorder. In the DSM-5®, hoarding is now recognized as a separate disorder, and you will learn the criteria you need to make an accurate diagnosis. Discover the potential health risks and emotional challenges associated with hoarding, and those in the community you can contact for additional help. This special webcast is designed to give you the treatment strategies you need to help your client move forward and live a healthy, uncluttered life.

Dr. Sampson-Susag will use case studies, client stories, and respectful humor that provide an outlet for this difficult topic.

OUTLINE

Inside the Mind of a Person Who Hoards

Uncovering the Person Who Hoards
Functional People Who Hoard
Co-morbid diagnoses with hoarding disorder
Biopsychosocial model
Implications of diagnosis on public safety
- Communities: Neighborhoods, Multi-family Dwellings
- Professionals: Code Enforcement, Fire, Law Enforcement

Diagnosis and Assessment of Hoarding Disorder

DSM-5® Criteria
Clutter vs. collecting vs. hoarding
Effective measures for assessment
Levels of hoarding
Emotional/psychological impact of hoarding on clients
Effects on physical health:
- Respiratory issues
- Falling and Balance Issues
- Dangers of Mold and Waste

Treatment & Strategies

Safety Day: Critical stress management approach to mandatory cleanouts
Coordinated and systematic response to forced clean-outs
Ambiguous Loss Theory
Trauma-Informed CBT, DBT
Working with the family of the person who hoards
Community collaboration
Reduce and prevent negative consequences
Recognize and respond to symptoms of psychological crisis
Support resilience:
- Promote Safety
- Calm & Comfort
- Connectedness
- Self-Empowerment
- Prevention Strategies
- Self-Care

OBJECTIVES

Recognize effective diagnosis and treatment strategies of hoarding disorder.
Describe alternative options to treatment other than a forced cleanout.
Apply evidence-based treatment strategies to address issues of safety in hoarding disorder.
Develop collaborative networks in your area to form a community response to hoarding disorder.

Copyright : 31/10/2013

The Top One-Minute Mindfulness Strategies to Use in Your Practice

In this program, Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, award-winning writer, and author of One-Minute Mindfulness will share his favorite One-Minute Mindfulness practices that can enhance your mindfulness work with clients. These easy-to-use practices are effective centering and stress-reduction strategies for working with mood disorders, anxiety, ADD, and PTSD. Donald will also explain how mindfulness recalibrates the brain by accessing the present moment.

Donald is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the Mindfulness Code (selected, One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010), Meal By Meal, Art of the Inner Meal, Living Kindness, and others.

Use breathing as a powerful stress reduction method to counter anxiety
Describe how to focus attention away from negative mood states by grounding awareness in the external world
Explain a calming meditation for increasing concentration and shown to be helpful for ADD
Create space from feelings of depression through affirmation and intention as a way to strengthen feelings of safety
Use gratitude as a daily practice to create a new narrative and reduce depression

Power of "One-Minute Mindfulness"
One-Minute Mindfulness Promotes Emotional Regulation and changes the brain
De-Stress Your Inner Space

Stress detox using the breath

Find Pleasantness

A grounding method for refocusing attention
Deal with anxious thoughts and PTSD

Meditation Strategy

Enhance concentration
Work with ADD
Reduce stress

One-Minute Centering Intentions and Affirmations

Strategies to reduce depression
Strategies to increase feelings of safety

Gratitude for the Day

A method to reduce depression
Engage awareness
Focus on the positive

Silence and Lessons from the Earth

A powerful means of reconnecting with one’s:
1. Inner wisdom
2. Sense of peace
3. Calm
4. Clarity