Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders
Cognitive Therapy Training for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety
Live Training Offered via Zoom!
10:00 am to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 23, 2024
10:00 am to 4:30 pm Sunday, March 24, 2024
12 Continuing Education hours
Take Steps Towards Certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy*
*Please check website Academy of Cognitive Therapy for all Certification requirements
Key Benefits & Takeaways:
- Teach anxious clients 10 key tools to reduce anxiety
- Help anxious clients overcome avoidance
- Learn effective strategies on staying on task with anxious clients
- Treat clients with co-morbid diagnosis
Numerous outcome studies support cognitive behavioral therapy's efficacy with anxiety disorders. In this comprehensive CBT training workshop for Anxiety Disorders, receive 12 CE units while enhancing your ability to treat your patients successfully using cognitive behavioral therapy and Mindfulness-based techniques.
Through instruction, recordings of expert clinicians, experiential exercises using your own cases, practice using CBT skills working with anxious clients.
Specific Educational Objectives:
- Participants will identify a treatment plan for generalized anxiety disorder
- Participants will identify a treatment plan for panic disorder
- Participants will be able to demonstrate using at least one technique for treating social anxiety
Day One
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Morning Session
- Common elements of anxiety disorders
- Treatment of anxiety disorders
- Mindfulness Techniques
- Problem solving coping skills
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Assessment tools
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Treatment Plans
- Practices on managing anxiety: Education and coping techniques
- Two methods to handle worry
- Techniques on modifying images
- Mindfulness exercises
- Using automatic thought records with anxious clients
- Assignments: strategies to increase compliance
- Experiential exercises using your clinical cases
Day Two
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Morning Session
Panic Disorder
- Assessment for Panic Disorder
- Panic Disorder Interview
- Reviewing the Panic Scenario
- Inducing Panic Attacks
- Treatment Plan for Panic Disorders: Session by session overview of objectives, methods
- Assignments for patients with panic disorder
- Experiential exercises using your clinical cases
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
Social Anxiety
- Social anxiety: overview
- Education about social anxiety
- Assessment for social anxiety
- Beliefs about social anxiety: Automatic thoughts, underlying assumptions, core beliefs
- Behaviors with social anxiety: avoidance, safety modes that clients use
- Treatment plan for social anxiety
- Methods to use when client has social anxiety
- Imaginal exposure, in vivo exposure, behavioral experiments
- Assignments for social anxiety
- Experiential exercises using your clinical cases