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R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
Strategic Treatment of the Anxiety Disorders We will begin by studying how all anxiety disorders generate an absolute standard for certainty and comfort, thus manipulating people into worry. You will learn specific skills within the three targets of treatment for both worry and GAD: physiological, cognitive, and behavioral. Then we will explore strategies for panic, social anxiety, phobias and OCD, helping clients find the courage and motivation to challenge their old beliefs and attitudes. Cutting-edge treatment now pushes further into the confrontational. You will learn how to help clients purposely seek out anxiety as their ticket to freedom from crippling fear. For panic disorder, social anxiety and phobias, you will learn how to divide and conquer: to interrupt anticipatory anxiety and to manage physical symptoms. Therapist skills will include cognitive strategies, paradox, pattern disruption, exposure and interoceptive exposure, and peeling away their ever-present “safety crutches.” For OCD clients, persuading them to adopt a new frame of reference is the therapist's primary task. You will learn a persuasive strategy—built out of whole cloth within the first session—that will frame the entire treatment protocol. We will support this approach with concrete interventions for both obsessions and rituals. Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining any of our topics For further information, contact:
Treatment of Panic
Disorder 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." Skills with be
demonstrated and practiced. Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining any of our
topics For further
information, contact:
Treatment of Worry and Generalized
Anxiety Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining
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Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Participants then learn how to orient patients around four essential homework assignments. Additional skills will include postponing, designing daily worry time and audiotape exposures, modifying obsessions and compulsions, and adding consequences. All strategies can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers and pure obsessionals. Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining any of our topics For further information, contact:
Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting children and are frequently misinterpreted as behavior problems. Participants will learn how to apply effective cognitive and behavioral skills, structured around a universal treatment strategy. This prescriptive approach identifies and matches specific client characteristics with the most compatible interventions. We will orient around the themes of modifying resistance, habituation, long-term belief change, pattern disruption and securing the family system. The day will be divided into two sets of tasks: those for the therapist and those for the client. Therapist tasks will include a getting-to-work partnership, curiosity, finding hooks, homework and enlisting parents. Client tasks will include self-monitoring, personifying the anxiety, challenging worry content, tolerating distress and doubt, letting go of safety crutches, playing with anxiety, taking on the bully and generating homework. While treatment protocols for specific disorders will not be reviewed, participants can apply these skills for separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. For further information, contact:Reid Wilson, Ph.D. 421 Bennett Orchard Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516 919-942-0700 rrw@med.unc.edu
Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder Topics will include: distinguishing features of social anxiety treatment, tasks in the initial interview, exposure simulations, cognitive restructuring, principles of group work, treatment tools and homework procedures. Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining any of
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive
Spectrum Disorders Build 1- or 2-Day trainings by combining any of our
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Don't Panic! How to Control Symptoms of
Anxiety Do you or someone you care about suffer from panic attacks, anxiety or phobias? Millions of Americans have difficulty driving a car, going to a store or the mall, taking a flight, or entering other situations where they fear being trapped or out of control. The good news is that there are effective remedies for panic attacks and the phobias that stem from them. In this talk, Reid Wilson, Ph.D., an internationally known expert on anxiety and author of the classic Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, will discuss the problem of panic and offer self-help skills to manage anxiety and return to normal living. Dr. Wilson will cover the following topics:
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Applying
the Science of Happiness: Finding Flow in Your Life and Practice 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. For further information,
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The Essence of
Happiness and How to Find It Based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Martin Seligman (Learned Optimism, The Optimistic Child, and Authentic Happiness) we will spend this half-day learning the most practical principles of Positive Psychology as they relate to happiness. We will integrate research, theory, and practice to equip participants with the intellectual appreciation and no-nonsense skills that help people lead a happier, more engaged, and more deeply meaningful life. We will sample a collection of documented exercises to enhance satisfaction about the past, optimism about the future and happiness in the present. By understanding how to integrate authentic happiness into your own life - by increasing pleasures, engagement, and meaning - you will become a model for those whom you will help. For further information,
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Getting Your
Life and Practice into Flow According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in flow, “The ego falls away. Time flies. Your whole being is involved and you’re using your skills to the utmost.” Does that sound like your typical day at the office? In this workshop, you’ll learn what 40 years of research can tell you about strategies therapists can use to maximize their own experience of flow throughout their lives and as well as in the therapy process. You’ll learn how to become more sensitive to your internal feedback, so you can notice when you’re out of flow; how to establish small goals, so you can refocus and be more present; and how to ramp up or reduce the challenge of any situation, so you can maintain maximum engagement. For further information,
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Good Business: How
Fulfillment on the Job Can Influence Effectiveness The goals of a successful business include retaining qualified, talented employees who feel committed to the objectives of the organization and are motivated by their individual tasks. In this practical workshop, we will explore how to accomplish these goals through a) the business environment, b) the structure of job tasks, and c) how employees focus their attention through the day. The qualities within each of these can address the three main employee dissatisfactions. How can we make a job more meaningful by adding value to it? How can we turn a job that lacks challenge and variety into one that satisfies the worker’s need for novelty and achievement? How can we keep sources of strain from becoming stressful? We will explore the answers to these questions. Work provides one of the best and most likely opportunities for satisfaction in a person’s life. By promoting a gratifying experience, businesses can improve their bottom line through employees working together efficiently toward a cost-effective outcome. For further information,
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