January 25, 2010
Treatment of the Anxiety Disorders
Salt Spring Island, BC
Salt Spring Island
Community Services
268 Fulford-Ganges Rd.
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2K6
250 537-9971 ext 225
www.saltspringcommunityservices.ca
January 27, 2010
31st Annual Training on Behavioral Health &
Addictive Disorders
Clearwater, Florida
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Winning the Anxiety Game:
Brief Strategic Treatment for the anxiety Disorders
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Treatment of General
Anxiety Disorder
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Getting Your Life into
Flow
U.S. Journal Training/Clearwater Beach
3201 SW 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
800-441-5569
www.usjt.com
February 27-28, 2010
Panic Disorder/Social Anxiety Weekend Treatment
Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center
Durham, NC
2-day intensive treatment group specifically for any individuals who
suffer from panic disorder and social anxiety. These groups are by
referral only. Limited to 8 clients.
Phone: 919-942-0700
Fax: 866-774-9511
www.anxieties.com/weekend.php
rrw@med.unc.edu
March 4-7, 2010
Anxiety Disorders
Association of America 30th Annual Conference
Baltimore, MD
March 4, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Talking to Anxiety: The Why's and How's
(Master Clinician Workshop)
A core vulnerability factor for all anxiety disorders is attentional bias toward threat. One sustaining dynamic for anxiety is the individual’s effort to resist the experience (fight, freeze or avoid). It is generally accepted that by manipulating this bias and altering this experiential avoidance, clients can gain control of their anxiety. Currently treatment options move the client in one of two directions: either acceptance of or provocation of discomfort and uncertainty. Both can be seen as paradoxical interventions that involve reversing clients’ attitudes about their symptoms while simultaneously eliminating safety behaviors that otherwise would interfere with the process of threat disconfirmation. Studies reveal significant effect size: allowing yourself to interact in a manner opposite of your urges and dropping your perceived protective mechanisms is one of the most powerful ways to reduce anxiety. Defensive resistance to the present moment is a universal struggle. The lessons lead in one direction: each time we are unwilling to embrace the moment, we suffer. In this workshop, participants will learn how to offer clients a simple cognitive schema that counters attentional bias toward threat. The therapist personifies anxiety and asserts that anxiety disorders win by dominating a mental game. By learning to talk to anxiety, and to themselves, clients purposely to seek out discomfort and uncertainty as their ticket to freedom from crippling fear. By offering the patient such paradoxical responses to the moves made by anxiety disorders, they can begin to change the course of the therapeutic game.
March 5, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
DSM 5: Its Impact on Practice and Research (Luncheon Panel)
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
8730 Georgia Ave., Suite 600
Silver Spring, MD 20910
240-485-1032
http://www.adaa.org/conference&events/AnnualConference.asp
March
13-14, 2010
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Group
Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center
Durham, NC
2-day intensive treatment group specifically for any individuals who
suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. These groups are by
referral only. Limited to 8 clients.
Phone: 919-942-0700
Fax: 866-774-9511
www.anxieties.com/weekend.php
rrw@med.unc.edu
June 3, 2010
Applying the Science of Happiness: Finding Flow in Your Life and
Pracice
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In this fast-paced
day, we will study a set of practical, research-based principles that
can guide us towards happier, more engaged and deeply meaningful lives.
Participants will gain both intellectual appreciation and no-nonsense
skills in the arena of positive psychology, based on the work of
groundbreaking innovators Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
In the first four hours we will study Seligman’s pioneering work on
enhancing satisfaction with the past, optimism about the future and
happiness in the present. Along the way we will sample a collection of
exercises documented to increase life satisfaction and decrease
depression.
In the last two hours
we will focus on Csikszentmihalyi’s revolutionary work on how a person
enters flow--the state when we have deep, effortless involvement,
are fully absorbed in activity, lose our sense of time and have feelings
of great satisfaction. We will identify the eight traits of flow and how
we can increase our access to them. Participants will learn how to
bring more enjoyment to mundane tasks, pleasant activities, work
activities and treatment settings.
By understanding how
to integrate these skills - of increasing pleasures, engagement, meaning
and the enjoyment of flow - into your own life, you will become a model
for those whom you will help.
Leading Edge Seminars Inc.
88 Major Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2L1
Canada
416-964-1133
http://leadingedgeseminars.org/
June 4, 2010
Treatment of Worry and
Generalized Anxiety
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
We all worry. It’s an important signal that helps us plan our time and
efforts. But for some clients, the noise of worry is like a boombox in
their heads with no off-switch. Worry is pervasive throughout all the
anxiety disorders and it is the most frequent symptom among patients who
consult physicians with psychological complaints. This workshop will
explore the fundamental structure of worry—how it ignores data that
isn’t negative, how it squeezes out room for corrective information, and
how it gives rise to erroneous beliefs. Stemming from this knowledge,
participants will learn a complete set of therapeutic
strategies—physiological, cognitive and behavioral—for generalized
anxiety disorder, based on the latest research. These will help clients
face the unneeded worries of GAD head-on and dispatch with them rather
than trying to avoid them.
Leading Edge Seminars Inc.
88 Major Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2L1
Canada
416-964-1133
http://leadingedgeseminars.org/
July 14-18,
2010
International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
17th Annual
Conference
Washington, D.C.
July 14-15
Pre-Conference OCD Treatment Group and Professional Training
Dr. Wilson
will serve as therapist for 8 participants. Three professionals may
register as participant-observers.
July 16
Presentation: The Art of Persuasion: Changing the OCD Mind
International
OCD Foundation
PO Box 961029
Boston, MA
02196
617.973.5801
http://www.ocfoundation.org/Conference.aspx
October 15, 2010
Treatment of Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Kingsport, Tennessee
We all worry. It’s an important signal
that helps us plan our time and efforts. But for some clients, the
noise of worry is like a boombox in their heads with no off-switch.
Worry is pervasive throughout all the anxiety disorders and it is the
most frequent symptom among patients who consult physicians with
psychological complaints. This workshop will explore the fundamental
structure of worry—how it ignores data that isn’t negative, how it
squeezes out room for corrective information, and how it gives rise to
erroneous beliefs. Stemming from this knowledge, participants will
learn a complete set of therapeutic strategies—physiological, cognitive
and behavioral—for generalized anxiety disorder, based on the latest
research. These will help clients face the unneeded worries of GAD
head-on and dispatch with them rather than trying to avoid them.
Frontier Health
2001 Stonebrook Place
Kingsport, Tennessee 37660
(423) 224-1017
Rebecca Stewart
rstewart@frontierhealth.org
October 22, 2010
20th Annual Fall
Conference
Victoria, Minnesota
Morning: Brief Strategic Treatment
for the Anxiety Disorders: Winning the Anxiety Game
Anxiety disorders manipulate people by injecting rules into consciousness, then using that set of laws to take over mental territory. Clients can gain ground by engineering their own tactics and strategies, including the second-order change of switching game boards altogether. Purposely seeking out anxiety and doubt is their ticket to freedom from crippling fear.
Afternoon: The Art of Persuasion:
Changing the Mind on OCD
Persuading OCD clients to adopt a new frame of reference is the therapist's primary task. Those who succumb to the spell of obsessive-compulsive disorder conjure up a potion of avoidance and resistance as their only means to keep uncertainty and distress from boiling over. Two objectives direct their decisions: only take actions that have a highly predictable, positive outcome, and stay comfortable. Altering perception--not adding technique--helps them change directions, because belief always trumps exposure practice. Then repetition of action in the face of doubt and distress is required to solidify therapeutic gains. How do you move someone toward anxious uncertainty when their heart, mind and soul are committed to finding comfort? Participants will learn a persuasive strategy--built out of whole cloth within the first session--that will frame the entire treatment protocol.
Mount Olivet Rolling Acres
7200 Rolling Acres Road
PO Box 220
Victoria, MN 55386
Steve Anderson
Program Director
SteveA@mtolivetrollingacres.org
Telephone: 952-401-4846
Fax: 952.474.3652
http://www.mtolivetrollingacres.org/
October 28 – 29, 2010
Brief Treatment of the
Anxiety Disorders
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
In this fast-paced workshop,
we will begin by addressing the common features and treatment approaches
for panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and
worry, specific phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some anxiety
disorder treatment approaches rely on relaxation techniques and
cognitive strategies to help palliate symptoms even before gradually
exposing clients to the feared stimuli. But this can be a slow process
that leaves some clients still preoccupied with avoiding the symptoms of
their anxiety, dependent on safety behaviors, and vulnerable to
anxiety-provoking circumstances that are strong enough to overcome their
learned skills. This skill-based treatment helps clients find the
courage and motivation to challenge their old beliefs and attitudes. It
permits them to embrace the symptoms of their anxiety and reduce the
power of symptoms to arouse fear and avoidance. Practical methods
enable clients to ignore the content of their obsessive worries and to
explore the feeling of uncertainty rather than fleeing from it.
Cutting-edge anxiety treatment is now pushing further into the
confrontational. Participants will learn how to help clients purposely
to seek out anxiety as their ticket to freedom from crippling fear.
During the workshop they will also learn a new broad strategic
intervention that modifies the habituation model by teaching clients to
win at the anxiety disorder game.
· For panic disorder and its phobias, we will explore the world of
provocative therapy, placing significant attention on shifting the
patient’s orientation toward panic. Participants will learn how to
divide and conquer: to interrupt anticipatory anxiety and then to manage
physical symptoms using cognitive strategies, paradox, pattern
disruption, exposure and interoceptive exposure, and peeling away their
ever-present “safety crutches.”
·
For For
obsessive-compulsive disorder, we will address the four guidelines that
direct all treatment approaches Dr. Wilson will demonstrate how the
therapist confronts erroneous beliefs and how he/she develops, assigns
and follows up on homework. This homework will include several
pattern-interruption techniques that enable clients to engage in
modified versions of their obsessions and rituals that, paradoxically,
aim at helping them to let go of their symptoms for good. These skills
can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers,
repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers and pure
obsessionals.
·
For For
generalized anxiety, we will explore the common thinking errors of
chronic worriers. We will then identify a set of interventions to help
clients with generalized anxiety disorder face unneeded worries head-on
and dispatch with them. Participants will learn the skills of
confronting perceived cost, imminence and likelihood of threat,
specialized relaxation and imagery skills, addressing insomnia,
disputing cognitive distortions, treating worries when they are
“signals” or “noise,” and helping clients to seek out uncertainty.
Louise Ghiz MSW, RSW
Coordinator Continuing
Education
School of Social Work,
Dalhousie University
6414 Coburg Rd.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
B3H 2A7
Louise.Ghiz@dal.ca
Phone 902-494-1353/2249
Fax 902-494-8025
Web Page:
http://continuingeducation.socialwork.dal.ca
December 9-12, 2010
Brief Therapy Conference
Invited Faculty
Orlando, Florida
Milton H. Erickson Foundation
www.erickson-foundation.org
mhefac@aol.com |
