Don't Panic:
How to Handle Your Anxious Clients
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Reid Wilson, PhD |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 24, 2012 | ||
| Time: | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | ||
| Location: | Koffler House/Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (Click here for directions.) |
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| Fee: | $189 (+ HST) up to Apr. 12 $199 (+ HST) after Apr. 12 (Please see Fees page for multiple-registration discounts.) |
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In this dynamic workshop, you will learn the most direct strategies to treat panic disorder and its related phobias, including social anxiety disorder. Reid Wilson, best-selling author and notable Leading Edge Seminars presenter, will review the essential knowledge base and therapist skills needed for comprehensive treatment of panic disorder. He will outline the psychosocial development that leads to the panic-prone personality, and the benevolent purpose of symptoms. Brief calming and focusing skills, techniques for dealing with worries and anticipatory anxiety, and success imagery will be covered.
Dr. Wilson will then venture into the world of permissive and provocative therapy and discuss how to shift the patient’s orientation toward panic. The standard cognitive behavioural treatment of panic is now pushing further into the confrontational. You will learn how to divide and conquer: to interrupt anticipatory anxiety and then to manage symptoms using cognitive strategies, paradoxical interventions, pattern disruption, exposure simulations, and interoceptive exposure (an approach that targets sensations arising from the body, particularly the viscera). You will learn to peel away clients’ ever-present “safety crutches”.
The workshop will also explore the underlying beliefs that drive social anxiety and how these beliefs can lead clients towards developing flawed treatment goals. You will learn to tailor CBT for individuals and group work. Other highlights include tasks in the initial interview, principles of group work, and homework procedures.
You will learn —
- About the leverage that can move your clients from defense to offense
- How to identify the flawed goals of those with social anxiety and the underlying beliefs that drive them and thus how to construct more effective goals
- Why provoking symptoms is better therapy than tolerating them
- How to convince clients to seek out anxiety and encourage symptoms
- About 10 kinds of safety crutches and the ways to drop them
- A three-step formula for talking to a client’s anxiety disorder (with a demonstration)
Reid Wilson, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is author of Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, now in its revised edition, and co-author of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions, and other publications. He is also co-author of Achieving Comfortable Flight, a self-help kit for the fearful flyer, and has designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines' first national program for the fearful flyer. Dr. Wilson is a noted and frequent international workshop presenter. For more information, visit www.anxieties.com.