Mastering the Anxiety Game in Clinical Practice by Reid Wilson
Description
When it comes to treating anxiety, growing evidence shows that the quickest, most effective approach involves ramping up fears while welcoming the experience.
Join internationally recognized anxiety disorders treatment expert and author, Reid Wilson, PhD, for this cutting-edge seminar and start helping your clients stop the noise and change the way they relate to their anxieties.
You will learn how to rapidly engage anxious clients in the therapeutic alliance and then help them shift their relationship with their fears and override the responses that perpetuate them. You’ll explore paradoxical strategies to help clients transform their anxieties and worries from intimidating threats into challenges that they can meet and conquer. The goal is to persuade clients to adopt a self-help protocol to voluntarily, purposely and aggressively seek out uncertainty moment-by-moment
- Challenge the dominance of anxiety!
- Implement simple paradoxical strategies
- Teach clients to seek out anxiety and uncertainty
Get Things Done Briefly
- The new data on rapid gain in treatment
- The Key: Promote change by transforming beliefs
- How to challenge resistance and the “getting rid of” pendulum problem
- Why provoking symptoms is better therapy than tolerating them
The Four Paradoxical Strategies
1. Step Back – Detachment and the Stepping Back Process
- Detach from the anxiety-provoking topic
- Change signals into noise
- Step back to gain perspective in the moment
- Generalized anxiety: “Maybe it’s this and not that”
2. Want It – Voluntarily Choosing the Experience
- Use the power of paradox to train the amygdala
- Use interoceptive exposure to modify beliefs
- Elevate a competing emotional attitude
- Choose awkward, clumsy, embarrassed, and insecure
3. Step Forward – Stepping Toward the Threat
- Move clients from defense to offence
- Persuade clients to provoke doubt and distress
- The “seeking out” strategy
- The “only do what you want to do” stance
4. Be Cunning – Talk to Anxiety
- The 3-step formula: Personify, Externalize, and Simplify
- Welcome doubt and distress through the front door
- The “act as though” principle
Doing the Work
- The logic and power of self-talk cues during performance
- Two forms of self-talk: Motivation & commands
- The benefits of moment-by-moment goals
- Generate and debriefing behavioral experiments
- Play with anxiety: How to score points
Self Help – Self Help online course
More information about Self Help:
Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.
Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language.
Self-help often utilizes publicly available information or support groups, on the Internet as well as in person, where people in similar situations join together.
From early examples in self-driven legal practice and home-spun advice, the connotations of the word have spread and often apply particularly to education, business,
psychology and psychotherapy, commonly distributed through the popular genre of self-help books.
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, potential benefits of self-help groups that professionals may not be able to provide include friendship,
emotional support, experiential knowledge, identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging.
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Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 119
- Assessments Yes