2012
February 4-5, 2012
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
February 11-12, 2012
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
March 19, 2012
Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Charlotte, NC
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.
Charlotte AHEC
Mental Health Education
Lisa Littlejohn, MBA
704.512.6243 (f) 704.512.6568
lisa.littlejohn@carolinashealth.com
www.charlotteahec.org
March 21-25, 2012
Psychotherapy Networker
Workshop 1: Defeating Panic:
A Paradoxical Approach
Workshop 2: Anxiety Be Gone!
Overcoming Obsessive Worrying
5135 MacArthur Blvd.,
N.W.
www.psychotherapynetworker.org
April 12-15, 2012
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Arlington, VA
Workshop: Enhancing Visual Rehearsals and Guided Imagery with Hypnotic Language
Imagery is an active part of the cognitive-behavioral therapy regimen, utilized in the treatment of panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, phobias, and PTSD. At the same time, most of these treatment interventions directly challenge a client’s sense of insecurity. Clients are prone to respond with rigidity and a tendency toward experiential avoidance. The linguistics of modern hypnosis can enhance the effectiveness of imagery within the treatment session through several means. Clients can strengthen their ability to harness and develop control over internal images. They can intensify the vividness of imagery, thus producing central nervous system activation. They can better utilize imagery to activate parasympathetic activity, counterbalancing the images that activate sympathetic activity. The linguistic skills that will be reviewed include: indirect suggestions, questions and rhetorical questions, qualifiers, negative adjectives and adverbs, all possible alternatives, and implications. Demonstrations will illustrate their incorporation within relaxation training, guided mindful meditation, worry exposure, self-control desensitization and visual rehearsal of coping skills.
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
8730 Georgia Ave., Suite 600
Silver Spring, MD 20910
240-485-1032
www.adaa.org/conference&events/AnnualConference.asp
April 28-29,
2012
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
May 2, 2012
The Conference on the Self & Family
Santa Fe, NM
9:00 - 10:00 AM Winning the Anxiety Game: Brief Strategic Treatment for the Anxiety Disorders
2:00 - 3:30 PM Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
4:00 - 5:30 PM Getting Your Life into Flow
U.S. Journal Training/Counseling Advances
3201 SW 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190
lorriek@hcibooks.com
800-851-9100 x220
954-360-0909 x220
May 5-6, 2012
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
May 11, 2012
Enhancing Visualization Skills in Clients: Advanced Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Asheville, NC
This skill-development workshop supports clinicians in mastering guided imagery and visual rehearsals, an often-overlooked set of interventions in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, social phobias, panic disorder and OCD. We will develop simple paradigms that therapists can briefly and confidently introduce within the session. Visualizations meet many of the essential goals of treatment. True learning requires the person to experience something outside her frame of reference. Through the benefits of dissociation, guided imagery can bypass certain resistances, allowing clients to become more receptive to presented ideas. They can then find and mobilize inner resources and acquire confidence in their ability to cope with threatening situations. This begins the process of shaping: the gradual building up of behavior by successive approximations to the goal. The intention of this day is for clinicians with intermediate knowledge of anxiety treatment to be surprised at the ease in which they can incorporate imagery into a session with only a moment’s notice.
William Barthel, MSW, LCSW
Associate Director, Mental Health Education
Mountain AHEC
501 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, N.C. 28801
TELE: 828.257.4482
FAX: 828.257.4768
EMAIL: bill.barthel@mahec.net
May 24, 2012
Don't Panic! How to Treat Panic, Social Anxiety and Phobias
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In this fast-paced workshop, participants will learn the most direct therapeutic strategies for treatment of panic disorder and its related phobias, as well as social anxiety disorder. First, with panic disorder, we will review the essential knowledge base and therapist skills needed for comprehensive treatment. We will begin with psychosocial development that leads to the panic-prone personality, the benevolent purpose of symptoms, brief calming and focusing skills, skills for worries and anticipatory anxiety, and success imagery. We will then venture into the world of permissive and provocative therapy, placing significant attention on shifting the patient’s orientation toward panic. The standard cognitive-behavioral treatment of panic is now pushing further into the confrontational. 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.”
We will distinguish changes in this cognitive-behavioral treatment to fit the needs of those with social anxiety, whether utilizing individual or group therapy. Underlying beliefs drive social anxiety and lead clients toward developing flawed treatment goals. Then we will highlight tasks in the initial interview, paradoxical interventions, exposure simulations, cognitive restructuring, principles of group work, and homework procedures.
Leading Edge Seminars Inc.
416-964-1133
http://leadingedgeseminars.org/
May 25, 2012
The Art of Persuasion: Changing the Mind on OCD
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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. 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.
You will learn how to persuade clients to voluntarily seek out and embrace uncertainty and anxiety as their ticket out of suffering. You’ll then learn techniques that generate positive motivation to develop mastery over their symptoms. These self-help oriented skills can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers and pure obsessionals.
Leading Edge Seminars Inc.
416-964-1133
http://leadingedgeseminars.org/
May 30-June 1, 2012
Northwest Conference on Behavioral Health & Addictive Disorders
Seattle, WA
Friday June 1
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Winning the Anxiety Game: Brief Strategic Treatment for the Anxiety Disorders
The anxiety disorders manipulate people by injecting rules into consciousness, then using that set of laws to take over mental territory. Phobias, panic, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and OCD will be discussed and treatment strategies explored.
1:45 - 3:15 PM
Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This session 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 set of therapeutic strategies based on the latest research.
3:30-5:00 PM
Enhancing Visualization Skills in Anxious Clients
We will develop simple paradigms that therapists can briefly and confidently introduce in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, social phobias, panic disorder and OCD.
U.S. Journal Training/Counseling Advances
3201 SW 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190
lorriek@hcibooks.com
800-851-9100 x220
954-360-0909 x220
July 25-30, 2012
International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
19th Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
July 25-26 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 29-30 Post-Conference OCD Treatment Group and Professional Training
Dr. Wilson will serve as therapist for 8 participants. Three professionals may register as participant-observers.
Workshop: 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.
International OCD Foundation
PO Box 961029
Boston, MA 02196
617.973.5801
http://www.ocfoundation.org/Conference.aspx
October 2-7, 2012
Brief Therapy Conference
Guangzhou, China
Keynote - Oct 5 - TBA
½-day workshop – Oct 5 – TBA
Post-conference 1-day workshop – October 7
Contact: gracenlp@yahoo.com.cn
topic: TBA
Leading Edge Seminars Inc.
416-964-1133
http://leadingedgeseminars.org/
December 6-9, 2012
The Tenth Brief Therapy Conference
San Francisco
Invited Faculty
The Milton Erickson Foundation
3606 N. 24th St
Phoenix, AZ 85016
tele: 480-389-4342
fax: 602-944-8118
