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Digital Seminar

Unmasking Anxiety’s Everyday Patterns: How to Interrupt an Epidemic of Avoidance and Worry

Faculty:
Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Duration:
2 Hours 02 Minutes
Copyright:
17 Mar, 2023
Product Code:
NOS096287
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Anxiety may be everywhere, but even within our field, we seem to know little about how it operates and is maintained. Without information and interventions that target the underlying patterns that fuel it, anxiety spirals, and the cycle not only continues within, but between people. This session offers concrete strategies to help clients recognize, interrupt, and prevent the cognitive, generational, and social habits of our everyday lives that create anxiety, keep it going, and often lead to depression. You’ll discover how to:

  • The most common—and often missed—patterns of anxiety in clients of all ages
  • Active interventions with clients that build skills to interrupt anxiety’s patterns
  • Normalize worry and anxiety and remove families from a crisis-based and pathologized approaches to uncertainty
  • Use a family/social support frame that defuses anxiety and depression’s demand for avoidance and disconnection

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Unmasking Anxiety’s Everyday Patterns (893.6 KB) 14 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Transcript - Unmasking Anxietys Everyday Patterns (149.5 KB) 29 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Lynn Lyons, LICSW's Profile

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Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire. She has been in private practice 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children.

Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought-after expert, appearing in The New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets. Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lynn Lyons maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives compensation as an international presenter. Lynn Lyons receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lynn Lyons has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

  1. Catalogue common but often misunderstood patterns of anxiety that impact client’s daily functioning.
  2. Inspect the role of rumination, worry, global and catastrophic thinking in anxiety.
  3. Develop treatment plans that bolster familial and social support.
  4. Discriminate between self-care and self-medication.
  5. Design experiential homework assignments that help clients move out of the anxious patterns that often lead to co-morbid depression.

Outline

  • Common but often misunderstood patterns of anxiety that impact client’s daily functioning
  • Anxiety as a generational phenomenon
  • Self-care vs self-medication
  • Developing treatment plans that bolster familial and social support
  • Experiential homework assignments that help clients move out of the anxious patterns that often lead to co-morbid depression
  • Common clinical mistakes that make anxiety worse
  • Active and immediate interventions from the first session
  • Current new research findings on anxiety

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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