Join internationally recognized expert and author in the treatment of anxiety disorders, Reid Wilson, Ph.D., for this cutting-edge seminar. You will learn how to become a strategic therapist when working with worry, GAD, fear, panic, social anxiety, phobias and OCD by implementing cognitive strategies, paradox, pattern disruption, exposure and interoceptive exposure. Learn effective treatments that will confront your client’s anxiety and challenge their beliefs and attitudes. Dr. Wilson has over 20 years of fulltime experience as a specialist in anxiety disorder treatment. He has a dynamic teaching style, interspersed with humor and utilizes fresh case examples to maximize your learning and to illustrate interventions and the process of change. OBJECTIVES Teach your client six or more techniques for controlling anxiety-provoking worries List four methods for generating alternative perspectives Detail how to modify the habituation model to accelerate progress Explain how to shift clients’ orientation from defense to offense List five types of interceptive exposure that can be conducted in the treatment office Identify how to persuade OCD clients to engage in provocative homework assignments OUTLINE Worry & how to fix it The worrier’s response to a feared stimulus The 3 targets of treatment for GAD Training the parasympathetic Altering perception Stepping toward the threat Changing signals into noise How to be a strategic therapist Getting things done briefly Using the power of paradox to train the amygdala A new, efficient way to create habituation Job #1: Move your clients from defense to offense Why provoking symptoms is better therapy than tolerating them Convincing clients to seek out anxiety & encourage symptoms Provocative treatment of panic disorder How to do interoceptive exposure 10 groups of safety crutches & the ways to drop them Talking to panic: Teaching the 3-step formula Persuading panic clients to provoke distress Strategic treatment of OCD Conducting exposure sessions without the hierarchies 4 primary manipulations of obsessions 9 characteristics of rituals and how to disrupt them ABOUT REID WILSON, Ph.D. REID WILSON, Ph.D. is Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC, and is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson is an international expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders, with books translated into nine languages. He is author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, now in its third edition (Collins Living) and Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks (ADAA), is co-author, with Dr. Edna Foa of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Bantam) and is co-author of Achieving Comfortable Flight, a self-help package for the fearful flier. He designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines’ first national program for the fearful flier. Dr. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America for 12 years. He served as Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders from 1988-1991. His free self-help website – anxieties.com – serves 385,000 visitors (16 million hits) per year. Reid is a member of the 2003 Vanguard (first) Class of Certified Graduates of Dr. Martin Seligman’s Authentic Happiness Coaching Program. He’s been teaching about positive psychology principles since then. Television appearances include The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN-Financial Network, and various local news shows across the nation. He recently served as psychologist in an episode of A&E’s Hoarders. |