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2-Day Anxiety Certification Masterclass: Brain-Based Strategies for Panic, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety, GAD, OCD & PTSD

If you want to be successful at helping your clients manage anxiety, understanding the emotional responses of the amygdala and the cognitive processes in the cortex is crucial.

Watch the esteemed neuroscience and anxiety expert, Catherine M. Pittman, PhD, HSPP, in this intensive Anxiety Certification Masterclass. With clear and accessible language, Dr. Pittman will guide you through the complex neuroscience underpinning anxiety, emphasizing the pivotal role of the amygdala in perpetuating anxiety symptoms.

You’ll learn practical applications to therapy that will not only alleviate your client’s anxiety but also induce positive, lasting changes in the way their brain responds to anxiety and fear. Through engaging case examples, experiential activities, and reproducible handouts, you’ll discover first-hand how to:

  • Target amygdala and cortex to provide maximum relief from anxiety symptoms
  • Identify client’s origin of anxiety and help them understand their fight/flight/ freeze response
  • Accurately diagnose anxiety disorders and anxiety-based disorders, including Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, & PTSD
  • Quiet the vagus nerve using breathing and meditation exercises
  • Increase tolerance to anxiety and retrain the amygdala through exposure techniques
  • Establish healthy levels of amygdala activation using sleep and yoga exercises
  • Reduce cognitions that produce anxiousness with cognitive restructuring techniques

Purchase today to embark on a transformative journey with our Anxiety Certification Masterclass! Upon completion, you’ll qualify for certification as a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification signals to colleagues, employers, and clients that you’ve dedicated additional time and effort to comprehend the intricacies of anxiety counseling. Professional standards apply. Visit for details.

Don’t miss this opportunity to demystify the brain and help your clients conquer their anxiety!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

  • No hidden fees – 小蝌蚪视频 pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
  • Simply complete this training and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CCATP certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
*Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Visit for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Create a psychoeducation program that clearly explains the roles of the amygdala and cortex in perpetuating anxiety disorders and how to target both for effective treatment of anxiety symptoms.
  2. Teach clients how to interpret the language of the amygdala, facilitating improved treatment engagement, and enhancing overall levels of functioning.
  3. Train clients how to label their anxiety-related experiences in order to effectively target symptoms and promote mindfulness.
  4. Assess physical and cognitive symptoms of anxiety to accurately diagnose, tailor treatment plans, monitor progress, and engage clients in a brain-based, empowering therapeutic process.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to apply DSM-5-TR™ criteria to differentially diagnose various anxiety disorders and identify common comorbidities with other disorders including depression.
  6. Integrate exposure techniques to increase client’s tolerance to anxiety when it is clinically appropriate to do so.
  7. Design client-tailored strategies such as exercise and sleep interventions to calm the amygdala.
  8. Teach clients breathing exercises to quiet the amygdala and stimulate the vagus nerve in and out of session.
  9. Integrate cognitive restructuring techniques to reduce cognitions that produce anxious responding by igniting amygdala activation.
  10. Recognize the indications for medication referrals in the treatment of anxiety disorders and ways to promote their effective use.
  11. Evaluate the relationship of the cortex to the amygdala and their contributions to anxiety as it relates to treatment strategies.
  12. Demonstrate the ability to accurately diagnose anxiety disorders, engage clients in goal-setting, and train client’s to identify the role of their amygdala in symptoms.

Outline

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF THE AMYGDALA’S ROLE IN GENERATING FEAR AND ANXIETY

Amygdala’s Role in Defending Us from Danger & Creating Anxiety-Producing Memories

  • How the Amygdala:
    • Perceives threat and triggers the body’s fear response
    • Learns and contributes to the formation of emotional memories and behaviors
    • Communicates, processes, and regulates emotions

Teach Clients How the Brain Creates Their Anxiety

  • Two Brain Pathways that Produce Anxiety:
    • How the amygdala triggers emotion with fight, flight, freeze response
    • How the cortex activates the amygdala
    • Why it’s essential to target both for maximum relief
    • Help clients recognize where their physical symptoms are coming from: Anxiety survey and examples
    • Promote mindfulness

Diagnose Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety-Based Disorders

  • Accurately use DSM-5-TR ™ to Diagnose:
    • Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, & PTSD
    • Tips for differential diagnosis
    • Comorbidity of Major Depressive Disorder
    • Case examples throughout

Psychoeducation that Promotes Motivation and Engagement in Anxiety Treatment

  • Teach Clients How:
    • The brain creates anxiety, worry, and panic
    • To connect the amygdala to their anxiety concerns: Worksheets on where anxiety begins, explanations, examples
    • The amygdala needs vivid experiences to learn
    • To train their amygdala to be less reactive
    • Avoiding anxiety is dangerous
    • Limitations of research and potential risks
    • Case examples throughout

CLINICAL GUIDE TO EFFECTIVELY REDUCE FEAR AND ANXIETY RESPONSES IN TREATMENT:

Connect Client’s Amygdala to Goal Setting: Examples

  • Address client’s complaints about their lives
  • How clients label their anxiety-related experiences can focus interventions
  • Help clients see how anxiety is blocking goals: Worksheets
  • Why goal setting is essential
  • Guidelines to draw out and identify goals
  • How/where anxiety interferes with client goals

How to Calm the Amygdala

  • Amygdala-focused Interventions:
    • Breathing exercises that calm amygdala and activate vagus nerve
    • Exercise that establish healthy levels of amygdala activation
    • Tips to engage clients in exercises and activities
    • Case examples provided throughout

Increase Tolerance to Anxiety: Exposure Techniques

  • Teach clients to communicate in the language of the amygdala
  • Importance of SUDS ratings for communicating with clients
  • Developeing a hierarchy
  • Seven general guidelines for exposure
  • Six tips for exposure effectiveness
  • Case examples provided throughout

How to Fight Anticipation and Worry

  • Cortex-Focused Interventions:
    • Cognitive approaches to target the cortex
    • Identify amygdala-activating cognitions with surveys
    • Remember “survival of the busiest” rule
    • You can’t erase, you must replace
    • The amygdala watches cortex television
    • Change the channel in the cortex
    • Case examples provided throughout

Incorporate Medication into Anxiety Treatment

  • Indications for medications
  • How to refer to physician, psychiatrist
  • Impact of SSRIs, SNRIs on cortex, amygdala
  • Impact of benzodiazepines on cortex, amygdala
  • Client education about medication use, effects

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Counselors
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/04/2024

2-Day: Depression and Mood Disorder Certification Training: New Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Lasting Recovery

Your clients with depression, bipolar, and other mood disorders are counting on you. But successful treatment can feel like an impossible task.

Diagnosis is tricky, first-line treatments often fail, poor treatment compliance and destructive impulsivity feel like the norm, and recurrence seems the rule and not the exception. And you frequently need to work around medication use that comes with serious side effects, but often fails to offer real benefits. The litany of challenges can leave you feeling exhausted, ineffective, and troubled about the potentially devastating outcomes of treatment failure.

This training is exactly what you need to help your clients achieve a fuller recovery from depression and bipolar disorder, all without resorting to potentially risky and ineffective medication use.

Watch depression and mood disorder expert and author Chris Aiken, MD, and get cutting-edge therapeutic techniques, skills, and practical guidance so you can assess for and effectively treat mood disorders better than ever before.  Attend and discover:

  • New assessment tools for your practice – demystify the DSM-5™ for mood disorders
  • The latest psychotherapy techniques including Rumination-Focused CBT, Social Rhythm Therapy and CBT for Insomnia
  • Nutritional psychiatry and the first clinically proven diet to treat depression

Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Depression & Mood Disorders Treatment Professional (CDMDTP) through Evergreen Certifications.
Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of treating depression and other mood disorders in clients. Professional standards apply. Visit for details.

*We partner with  to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Purchase today and leave confident that your treatment toolbox has the right combination of clinical interventions so your clients can find relief and live the lives they deserve!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Conduct a collaborative assessment that avoids the stigma clients often associate with mood diagnoses.
  2. Differentiate among the affective temperaments of dysthymic, cyclothymic, hyperthymic, and irritable types.
  3. Assess how psychological trauma affects mood disorders differently.
  4. Distinguish between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.
  5. Catalogue the more common cooccurring disorders of the depressed client.
  6. Demonstrate how to create a more effective and practical mood chart for clients to complete as homework.
  7. Analyze how to improve behavioral activation results by incorporating the client’s values.
  8. Evaluate how ruminative thinking drives depression.
  9. Categorize the evidence-base for the Rumination Focused CBT model.
  10. Apply techniques that mange countertransference to mania and depression.
  11. Appraise the therapeutic alliance and ethical issues around including family members in therapy sessions.
  12. Devise an emergency plan with clients and family in readiness for mania, hospitalization and suicidality.
  13. Create an attainable treatment plan that derived from Social Rhythm Therapy.
  14. Summarize the neuroscience of inflammation and insomnia with depression and bipolar disorder.
  15. Integrate the known risks and often contraindicated use of antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
  16. Manage behavioral approaches that address medication adherence.

Outline

The Mood Spectrum: Diagnosis in the DSM-5™ Era

  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Persistent Depressive Disorder
  • Depression with Mixed Features
  • Cyclothymic Disorder
  • Bipolar II Disorder
  • Bipolar I Disorder
  • Specifiers: Anxious distress, melancholic, atypical, seasonal & peripartum moods
  • Mania, hypomania, mixed states: How to recognize each
  • Differential diagnosis: Anxiety, addiction, ADHD, eating disorders, substance abuse
  • Bipolar Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder?

Assessment: Practical Tips, Evidence-Based Tools, and Subclinical Features

  • How to avoid over-diagnosing
  • Evidence-based measures: MINI-7; PHQ-9, MDQ, Bipolarity Index, & Hypomania Checklist
  • Why traditional mood charting doesn’t work – and what to do instead
  • Affective temperaments: Depressive, Hyperthymic, Cyclothymic and Irritable
  • Rumination, cognitive deficits, and early warning signs
  • Conceptualizing mood through the lens of energy, not emotion
  • Classic v. atypical Bipolar Disorder
  • When mood is shaped by trauma

THERAPY FOR MOOD DISORDERS: FROM EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS TO A PERSONALIZED PLAN

Mood Disorder Must-Haves for Every Treatment Plan

  • Psychoeducation – reduce stigma, identify causes, focus on prevention
  • Psychotherapy – how to match mood with the approach
  • Concrete interventions – create a “menu” the client can choose from
  • Positive psychology: the unique strengths of mood disorders
  • Family therapy – communication skills, boundaries, crisis plans
  • Remediation strategies for building back cognitive skills deficits

Behavioral Activation: More Than Building a Busy Schedule

  • Neuroscience: Turning down the brain’s default mood network
  • Integrating values and meaning in behavioral change
  • How behavior challenges depressive beliefs
  • Strategies: Opposite action, approach-avoidance, mindful media

Rumination-Focused CBT (RF-CBT)

  • How is RF-CBT different from traditional CBT?
  • Useful v. dysfunctional rumination
  • The benefits of rumination
  • Shift from avoidant rumination to absorbing action
  • The neurobiological basis of RF-CBT
  • Strategies: Chain analysis, habit changing, immersion, mindfulness and compassionate thought

Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP)

  • An attachment-based approach to treating mood disorders
  • Preoperational thinking: Why chronic depression is slow to change
  • Positive and negative reinforcement in chronic depression
  • Evidence to support CBASP for chronic depression
  • Strategies: Interpersonal inventory, situational analysis, interpersonal discrimination

Social Rhythm Therapy

  • Therapy with a biological basis
  • Four routines that stabilize the biological clock
  • Circadian rhythms, neurohormones and neuroplasticity
  • Strategies: Brisk awakening, zeitgebers, social rhythm chart

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

  • How a therapy for sleep treats depression
  • Sleep drive and circadian rhythms
  • The vicious cycle of anxiety and insomnia
  • Basic steps: Sleep hygiene
  • Advanced moves: Bed restriction
  • Special situations: Screen time, jet-lag, napping, night owls, and shift work

An Antidepressant Lifestyle

  • Nutrition: The MediMod Diet, probiotics, caffeine, alcohol and sugar
  • Physical Activity: When, where, how much
  • Environment: Dawn simulation, light and dark therapies, nature, music, aromatherapy and air ionization

Medication

  • Why a clear diagnosis is crucial before starting any medication
  • Anti-depressants and mood stabilizers: New classes, old standards
  • Benefits, risks, side effects; how to recognize problems
  • How medication impacts therapy: State-dependent learning
  • The Medication Interest Model: A Motivational Interview for Medication Adherence
  • Top supplements for mood disorder
  • Beyond medication: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy, esKatamine

Crisis Intervention 

  • The therapeutic relationship with the suicidal client
  • A collaborative approach to risk assessment
  • Which symptoms warrant hospitalization?
  • CBT for Suicidality: How therapy can present suicide
  • Strategies: Hope box, coping cards, and distress tolerance skills
  • Emergency planning

Clinical Considerations

  • Countertransference issues in depression and mania
  • Staying within your scope of practice
  • Children and adolescents: DMDD v. Bipolar Disorder
  • Multicultural considerations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Case Managers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Advanced Practice Nurses
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians
  • Addictions Counselors
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/15/2020