Full Course Description

Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional: Two-Day Competency Training

Transform your practice with this intensive 2-day Anxiety Treatment Certification Training and get the skills, proven strategies, and interventions you need to take your treatment of anxiety to the next level!

You’ll learn how to more skillfully assess clients, differentiate between various anxiety presentations, fully engage clients in treatment, and effectively use tools from CBT, mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and contemplative practices to enhance clinical outcomes.

And expert guidance on combining brain-based principles, body-oriented techniques and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches will change the way you work with challenging clients whose anxiety is exacerbated by shame, self-judgement, and attachment issues.

Best of all, upon completion of this seminar, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of anxiety counseling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATP for details.

Purchase today, get the proven tools and techniques needed to move your most challenging anxiety clients forward!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
Simply complete this seminar and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CCATP certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATP for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

Establish how stories and metaphors can be used as psychoeducational tools to explain the physiology of anxiety, and how contemplative approaches impact the anxious brain and body.
Articulate distinctions in differentiating among anxiety disorders and assessing physical symptomatology.
Provide an explanation of how medication impacts neuroplasticity and determine when medication serves to enhance or derail anxiety treatment.
Specify how individualized, awareness-based interventions can be used by clinicians to enhance client efforts towards change and reduce avoidance.
Communicate how evidence-based contemplative approaches can address self-judgment, worry, and negative thinking that can exacerbate anxiety symptoms.
Characterize how visual meditations can increase clients’ ability to focus attention and reduce rumination.
Analyze the research on the impacts of meditative movement on anxiety symptomology.
Establish how breathing practices can interrupt obsessive thinking, ritualized behaviours, and reassurance seeking.
Specify how treatment plans that employ reframing techniques can interrupt anxiety-producing thoughts.
Assess whether attachment style impacts treatment outcomes amongst clients undergoing treatment for social anxiety disorder.
Communicate how script-based, brief deep relaxation exercises can be implemented to increase feelings of safety and enhance emotional regulation.
Explore how journaling can be used as a clinical tool to shift clients away from anxious thoughts and toward action-oriented change.

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Disrupting Rumination: Changing Anxiety Cognitions

Overactive brain circuitry can trap clients in cycles of rumination that can keep them anxious and depressed. Letting go of ruminating worries, or banishing persistent thoughts, like I’m not good enough or I’m worthless, isn’t easy for clients and when ruminations don’t shift, therapists can begin to feel stuck themselves.

Watch Margaret Wehrenberg and she will examine why clients lock into depressive thought patterns and why they feel they need to hold on to worry. You will learn practical interventions to use in-session for eliminating these patterns and replacing them with attitudes of calm and competency.

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Objectives

Articulate methods to help clients identify perfectionism in thought and behavior and explore treatment interventions to decrease symptoms of anxiety.
Implement strategies for stress management to reduce symptoms of anxiety in clients, including lifestyle changes, cognitive interventions and time management tools.
Evaluate the negative impact of rumination on the brain structure and function to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
Ascertain the underlying neurological processes that impact depression symptoms in clients.

The New Exposure Therapy

Specific training on how to effectively implement exposure and response prevention for obsessive compulsive disorder and related anxiety disorders and related disorders is rare, and data suggest that even when individuals are trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, they often do not use exposure, or do not use it appropriately. In addition, the relative rarity of well-trained ERP practitioners makes it extremely difficult for OCD sufferers to find appropriate care, and many often wait years to get treatment. Finally, recent research on inhibitory learning, or how exposure works, suggests specific guidelines for amplifying treatment efficacy. Thus, this training serves a specific need in the field.

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate exposure and response prevention and its efficacy.
Determine the inhibitory learning model of exposure therapies.
Analyze how exposure works from the perspective of inhibitory learning.
Design and conduct exposure exercises that support inhibitory learning.