Anxiety

Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT

New research shows the important contribution that movement, especially regular aerobic exercise, plays in helping people decrease depression and anxiety levels and increase cognitive functioning and the ability to take in new learning. This Anxiety Course and training will give you a clear and compelling overview of this exciting new research that will help you jumpstart stuck clients. You will also get some simple strategies to get your patients started in their exercise routines. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.

Learning Objectives

1. List three research results that support the benefits of exercise in mental health treatment.
2. Describe three methods of helping people begin exercise programs.
3. Describe ways to strengthen 'brain fitness' with exercise.

J. Douglas Bremner, MD, PhD

The field of brain imaging has invaded and taken over the currency of psychology. This Anxiety Course and training provides a perspective on the meaning of brain imaging for psychiatry from someone with a dual training and clinical and research experience in Psychiatry and Nuclear Medicine. Practical information about when and how the mental health professional should use brain imaging in their clinical practice, and a summary of research findings and current state of knowledge in the area of anxiety disorders are included. Images are used to illustrate key clinical findings in specific disorders. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply brain imaging technology to psychiatry research and describe the pathophysiology.
2. Discuss key findings from brain imaging studies related to anxiety disorders.
3. Use brain imaging in differential diagnosis with neurological disorders.

Reid Wilson, PhD

In this Anxiety Course and training, Dr. Wilson will share practical methods that enable clients to find the courage and motivation to challenge their old beliefs and attitudes by ignoring the content of their worries and exploring uncertainty rather than fleeing from it. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.

Learning Objectives

1. List the major themes that people with anxiety disorders most-commonly struggle with.
2. Describe how those stances will change as clients take control of fearful situations.
3. Discuss interventions that can shake up the anxiety disorder 'game' within a therapeutic context.

Reid Wilson, PhD

This Anxiety Course will help clients challenge their dysfunctional beliefs by reframing the nature of OCD through five simple but provocative guidelines. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the primary shifts in thinking that the therapist requests of the OCD patient.
2. List the four primary homework assignments for OCD patients.
3. Describe six paradoxical interventions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.