Description:
OPD Points: 10
Demonstrate the CBT session structure with anxious clients in order to achieve positive clinical outcomes.Assess for and diagnose each DSM-5® anxiety disorder, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, PANS/PANDAS, and Panic Disorder.Integrate Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) techniques to increase your client’s success.Utilize strategies that help family members become anxiety “coaches” for the client.Formulate interventions for challenging automatic negative thoughts in clients who have been diagnosed with anxiety.Plan when it is clinically appropriate to use extreme exposure interventions with clients.Demonstrate the use of interoceptive therapy for treating panic in clients.Analyze the purpose of utilizing paradoxical exposures when treating social anxiety.Apply knowledge about Generalized Anxiety Disorder to learn how to prevent fears about the future from interfering with quality of life.Utilize play-based exposure interventions for the treatment of anxiety in children.Employ Exposure and Response Prevention techniques to reduce symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Formulate treatment termination and relapse prevention plans with clients.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Getting Started: How to Optimize the Early CBT SessionsPrinciples of CBT – Establish roles and goalsHow to socialize your client to the CBT Session structureGet your client to do homeworkWhat not to do (reassurance, rabbit hole)Tools for goal settingBegin with the end in mind: Termination considerationsAssessment and Treatment Planning: Set the Stage for Successful TreatmentDiagnosis – why it’s importantKey questions to ask at intakeAssessment forms – where to find themTeach your clients to use a notebookUsing a SUDS scaleAnxiety and the Brain: What Every Client Needs to KnowWhy this is a pivotal point of treatmentSimple ways to teach clients about anxiety and the brainThe role of avoidance and safety behavioursMedication-what is helpful and what is notThe Art of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)The role of the clinicianTeach clients to ride the wave of anxietyCreate a fear hierarchy using SUD scalesHow to set up an exposureWorking with resistance to exposureWhat NOT to do and whyCognitive Therapy: Change the Way Clients Think about ThinkingEmpower clients to choose how to interpret their thoughtsUtilize values clarification to motivate changeChallenge distortions and core beliefs that get in the way of changeThe role of mindfulness in anxiety treatmentFamily Involvement: Teach Loved Ones to be a Part of the SolutionHelp families learn healthier ways to talk back to anxietyTeach how to respond without reassuringChallenge loved ones to face their own fearsPhobias and OCD: Exposure and Response Prevention in ActionIdentify OCD’s tricksStrategies for the most common phobias (heights, spiders, small spaces and more!)How to get comfortable with extreme exposuresVomit phobia, fear of harm, contamination, obsessive thoughts, sexual obsessionIdentify your own obstacles to successful ERPGet out of the office!Using scriptsDemonstrations and practicePanic Disorder: Interoceptive Exposure Techniques That WorkWhy deep breaths aren’t enoughPractice breathing to increase CO2Identify the fear in panicHow to induce symptoms of panic to build tolerance of discomfortStrategies for choosing a panic behaviour to replicateSocial Anxiety: Paradoxical Treatment Interventions that Get ResultsGoing after embarrassmentTools to practice mindfulness during conversationsBuild clients’ “I can handle it” muscleHelp clients improve insight about their fearsHow to remove safety behaviours in social situationsGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Worry: Helping Our Clients Live in the PresentOvercoming the fear that “I won’t be able to handle it”Tools that teach clients how to handle distressing thoughts/feelingsUtilize mindfulness/living in the presentWrite worry scripts, assign time for worry, chase after worryKids with Anxiety: Playing with FearSpecial considerations when working with childrenSchool refusal, contamination, bad thoughts, PANS/PANDASAdd play to your treatment planStrategies for age appropriate interventionsTeach kids to talk back to their fearsHow to handle parent resistance/therapy interferenceTermination and Relapse PreventionDevelop a client wellness plan that sticksHelp clients identify red flagsTeach clients to do ongoing exposuresEstablish a plan for when to return to therapyRisks and limitations of the research
Presenter / Provider:
Kimberly Morrow
Presenter Qualifications:
Kimberly Morrow, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Erie, Pennsylvania. Graduating from Memphis State University with a Master’s in Psychology and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Master’s in Social Work, Kimberly is a compassionate therapist, an anxiety expert, and a national speaker. She has been specializing in treating people with anxiety and OCD for over 25 years and teaching other professionals how to treat anxiety for over 15 years. Kimberly has given hundreds of presentations and workshops, including speaking at international conferences, providing a CBT certificate program, speaking to schools, and training thousands of master level clinicians throughout the United States. Kimberly is a graduate of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Institute. She is a member of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation and of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, chairing several committees. She is the 2012 recipient of the Clinician Outreach Award and the 2015 Member of Distinction Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She is co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com, which provides online training and case consultation for therapists to have easy access to quality, evidenced-based training for anxiety and OCD. Kimberly is the author of Face It and Feel It: 10 Simple But Not Easy Ways to Live Well With Anxiety (Independent Distributors/Heaven-Sent Creative Concepts, 2011) and the co-author of CBT for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Training for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry, and OCD (PESI, 2018).
