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Course: Deconstructing Panic and Worry in Psychotherapy

Overview

Anxiety disorders could be more accurately termed disorders of excessive self-protection: panic attacks do not cause death, obsessive worries about germs do not result in infections, and persistent worry does not lead to insanity. Yet, our chronically anxious clients are often tricked by their own efforts to avoid, distract from, and protect against these perceived dangers. When these dangers do not materialize, they may believe they narrowly escaped a terrible calamity and feel more vulnerable. Consequently, they become increasingly fearful of more and more improbable events.

Treating these clients requires creativity and finesse. If you are already familiar with the basics of exposure therapy and want to expand your clinical toolkit, Dr. David Carbonell’s masterclass will give you the inspiration you need. With over 40 years of experience as a psychologist, Dr. Carbonell presents the fascinating nuances of combining multiple techniques, including the use of humor and paradox, to help clients defuse their deeply ingrained anxious beliefs.

In this workshop, Dr. Carbonell will guide you on how to help your clients disengage from the self-protective behaviors that keep them trapped in anxiety. He will share his techniques to empower your clients to see themselves as capable individuals fooled by anxiety, rather than as defective individuals needing protection. He will provide insights on how to motivate your clients to seek out, rather than avoid, the corrective experiences they need for recovery.

Dr. Carbonell will also present effective strategies drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Paradoxical Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). These strategies will help your clients reconnect with the hopes and dreams they had for life before they were derailed by their struggle against anxiety.

This workshop will feature:

Understanding on how clients are tricked into a counterproductive struggle against anxiety and the mechanisms of excessive self-protection
Identifying signs of struggle against anxiety and safety behaviors
How to help your clients recognize their inherent strengths and capabilities
Ways to motivate clients to embrace corrective experiences essential for their recovery
Practical strategies for symptoms management
Clinical techniques to address client's thoughts, feelings of blame and shame, and self-protective behaviors

This training will equip you with the art of guiding clients towards effective responses to anxiety. Embracing innovative and counterintuitive strategies can empower clients to navigate their anxiety more successfully.

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5h of continuing education
34 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
1 certificate of achievement
1 PowerPoint
1 bibliography
1 course evaluation
7-day money back guarantee
Unlimited access
97% of participants who completed the satisfaction survey declare they would recommend this course to a colleague

Accreditation

Ordre des Psychologues du Québec

Canadian Psychological Association

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

Collège des médecins du Québec

For physicians who practice psychotherapy, training recognized by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec is automatically considered as activities adopted by the Collège des médecins, in accordance with Article 3 of the Regulation.

For physicians who do not practice psychotherapy, the College evaluates each recognition request based on the following criteria:

the relevance of the activity to the practice of the profession
the skills and experience of the trainer
the quality of the content and its adequacy with the physician's practice
the pedagogical framework of the activity
the quality of the documentation provided
compliance with the training objectives set out in the regulation
the presence of a certificate of participation or an evaluation

About the expert

Dr. David Carbonell, clinical psychologist, who specializes in helping people overcome fears, phobias and worry.

He is the author of four self- help books: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick.

He is the “coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach.com, and has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 10,000 therapists in the U.S. and abroad. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from DePaul University in 1985 and has maintained a practice devoted to the treatment of anxiety disorders in Chicago since 1990. In his spare time, he is the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists in the Chicago area.

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Learning objectives

Understand how clients become enmeshed in a counterproductive struggle against anxiety.
Help clients acquire adaptive approaches to managing symptoms.
Become effective in addressing client shame, blame, and excessive self-protection.
Implement clinical techniques to address clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Learning material

A theoretical course illustrated with clinical examples. This course is composed of videos of 5 to 15 minutes each. The PowerPoint of the course to download.

Syllabus

PowerPoint
Understanding Anxiety
1. Presentation
2. Treating anxiety disorders
3. Models to draw from
4. The false signals of danger
5. The anxiety trick
First, Reducing Anxiety
6. Anxiety doesn't just fool you once
7. The first session - Reducing Anxiety about Treatment
8. Video role play- belly breathing
9. The controversy about breathing instruction
Second, Breaking the Anxiety Cycle
10. The rule of opposites
11. Finding evidence of the trick in client observations
12. The scary movie example
13. Identifying safety behaviors
14. Avoidance and escape
15. Distraction and reassurance
16. Support people and objects
17. Rituals and superstitions
18. Secrecy
19. Control
Mastering Exposure and Overcoming Panic
20. Creating interventions- invite clients to try experiments
21. An observing posture
22. Responding to high anxiety - the AWARE steps
23. The Amygdala- your unconscious guardian
24. You never forget your first attack
25. Describing a recent attack
26. Video role play- 3 powerful questions
27. The panic cycle
28. What brings the panic to an end
29. Models of exposure
30. Inhibitory learning
31. Exposure guidelines
32. Video role play repeating the worry experiment
33. Are you motivated to worry?
34. Conclusion
Bibliography

CE Credits

Download a certificate of successful completion.

Audience

This training is intended for mental health professionals.

Your comments

"Excellent presentation!"
A psychologist (Canada)

Registration

$200.00 - Individual price Group price

Download the program

5h of continuing education
34 lessons that last from 5 to 15 minutes each
1 certificate of achievement
1 PowerPoint
1 bibliography
1 course evaluation
7-day money back guarantee
Unlimited access

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Frequently asked questions

Is there an evaluation at the end of the course?

To validate the achievement of the learning objectives, a final evaluation in the form of true/false questions is required. It must be completed in order to obtain the certificate of completion.

In addition, an optional self-assessment is offered at the beginning and end of the course, allowing you to measure your progress on the targeted skills.

These evaluations are not graded and are intended primarily to support your professional reflection.
How long do I have access to the course?

After your registration, the course is accessible anytime and from anywhere with unlimited access.
When does the course start?

That is entirely up to you! When you buy a course, you'll receive an access link that you can activate when you want.
Is there a student rate?

Yes there is! Learn more and request your student discount.

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Overcoming Panic and Worry: Mastering Exposure Work with Acceptance, Defusion, Humor, and Paradox

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