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Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry

Watch neuroscience and anxiety expert, Dr. Catherine Pittman, and learn her keys for successful anxiety treatment. Dr. Pittman integrates brain-based strategies for calming the anxious mind with client communication techniques that motivate change in your clients. Catherine’s approach promotes adherence to treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance – which is essential when working with anxious, worried, traumatized, or obsessive clients.

Dr. Pittman will give you proven tools and techniques to:

Identify and treat the roots of anxiety in both the amygdala and the cortex
Explain “the language of the amygdala” in an accessible, straight forward way
Identify how the cortex contributes to anxiety, and empower clients with strategies to resist anxiety-igniting cognitions

Purchase this transformational workshop today and put the power of neuroplasticity to work for you and your anxious clients!

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Objectives

Analyze the underlying neurological processes that impact anxious symptoms for clients.
Develop client engagement in treatment using personalized goals and attending to the therapeutic relationship.
Evaluate the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety symptoms and identify how these symptoms inform treatment interventions.
Demonstrate strategies for calming and training the amygdala in order to alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
Develop methods for teaching clients to retrain the cortex so that anxiety is resisted rather than exacerbated.
Analyze how psychotropic medication impacts neuroplasticity in the brain; identify related treatment implications.

Outline

Use Neuroscience in the Treatment of Anxiety
Positives:

We know more about anxiety-based disorders than any other disorders
Science gives explanations, evidence, authority, destigmatizes difficulties

Concerns:

It can be difficult to explain, answer questions
Clients may feel a lack of responsibility
Oversimplification is inevitable

Enhancing Engagement in Treatment

Don’t neglect the therapeutic relationship!
Address the challenges of anxious clients
Remember that strategies are effortful
Guide the process using client’s goals
Maintain motivation

Neuroplasticity

Define Neuroplasticity in everyday language
Therapy is about creating a new self
”Rewiring” as an accessible concept for change
Re-consolidation: the modification of emotional memories

Identify Two Neural Pathways to Anxiety

Amygdala – bottom-up triggering of emotion, physicality of anxiety
Cortex – top-down emotion generation based in cognition
Explain the two pathways to clients
How anxiety is initiated in each pathway and how pathways influence each other

Client Friendly Explanations

Use illustrations to create concrete understanding
Fight/flight/freeze responses
The “language of the amygdala”
Anxiety and the cortex
Help clients recognize the two pathways to anxiety

Neuroplasticity in the Amygdala (Essential for all Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, OCD, Depression)

Sleep and the amygdala
The influence of exercise
Breathing techniques to reduce activation
Relaxation, meditation, and yoga to modify responses
Exposure as opportunities for the amygdala to learn combatting avoidance
When anxiety indicates that the amygdala can learn new responses
Push through anxiety to change the amygdala

Neuroplasticity in the Cortex (Essential for GAD, SAD, OCD, PTSD, Depression)

”Survival of the busiest” principle – strengthen or weaken specific circuitry
The healthy (adaptive) use of worry in the cortex
”You can’t erase: You must replace”
Recognize and modify the impact of uncertainty
Training correct uses of distraction
Left hemisphere techniques – cognitive defusion, coping thoughts, fighting anticipation
Right hemisphere techniques – imagery, music
Mindfulness and anxiety resistances

Neuroplasticity and Medications for Anxiety Disorders, OCD, PTSD, Depression

Medication’s effects in the rewiring process
The myth of the chemical imbalance
The danger of sedating the brain with benzodiazepines
Promoting neuroplasticity with SSRIs, SNRIs
The effectiveness of CBT and meds

Moving Beyond Diagnostic Categories to Focus on Anxiety Pathways

Anxiety is a component of many diagnoses (depression, substance abuse, etc.)
Amygdala – and cortex-based techniques help in other disorders
Targeting brain-based symptoms rather than disorders
Worry, obsessions, rumination respond to similar cortex-based techniques
Panic, phobic responses, and compulsions respond to amygdala-based techniques

Research, Risks and Limitations

Empirical versus clinical and anecdotal evidence
Clinical considerations for specific clients and settings
Efficacy of particular interventions may vary

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 01/12/2024

Treating Clients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Improve Psychological Flexibility through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy & Exposure and Ritual Prevention

You can dramatically improve the lives of people struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder by embracing the effective and seamless combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP). Decades of research show that ERP is impactful for folks with compulsive, clinically-relevant habits, and ACT provides support in this endeavor by helping the person broaden their lifestyle to mindfully engage in vital, valuable, purposeful actions.

Watch ACT expert Daniel Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D, as he not only improves your OCD therapeutic toolbox, but also provides experiential exercises that will be personally impactful for you!

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Objectives

Assess the psychological flexibility of a person with OCD.
Utilize interventions related to acceptance of private events, such as urges, impulses, and emotions, while treating a person with an obsessive-compulsive repertoire.
Utilize interventions related to defusion from private verbal events, such as thoughts and obsessions, while treating a person with OCD.
Utilize exposure and ritual prevention, in a functional manner, while treating a person with an obsessive-compulsive repertoire.
Supplement exposure and ritual prevention with ACT, in order to aim to improve psychological flexibility for a person with OCD.

Outline

Assessing the Psychological Flexibility of a Person with OCD
Acceptance Interventions to Address Urges, Impulses, and Emotions
Defusion Interventions to Address thoughts and Obsessions
Exposure and Ritual Prevention, In A Functional Manner
Integrating Exposure and Ritual Prevention with ACT to Improve Psychological Flexibility

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Physicians
Psychologists
Speech-Language Pathologists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/02/2022

ADHD and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

ADHD, characterized by issues of attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and executive function often result in interference in all areas of functioning...

Putting people at odds between their values and behaviors.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) characterized by repetitive thoughts and behaviors, can be annoying at the least and tormenting at worst.

And ADHD and OCD share some overlapping territory—attention-shifting, flexibility, anxiety and goal-directed behaviors.

Although both disorders need to be addressed, it’s helpful to assess which one is "driving the bus".

In this session Dr. Olivardia shares techniques such as cognitive therapy, ACT and more to distinguish the differences and look-a-likes of ADHD and the OCD Spectrum and how they show up:

Pure-O
Hoarding Disorder
Tic Disorder
Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Body Dysmorphic Disorder

By learning to uncover the mystery of this diagnostic and common couple, you can help your clients move forward in their lives.

Join us for this must-attend event that offers you concrete solutions in treating your ADHD+OCD clients!

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Objectives

Identify the symptoms of OCD and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders to better inform accurate diagnosis.
Differentiate between OCD and ADHD symptoms in order to demonstrate an understanding of the diagnostic criteria.
Comprehend how eiher condition can be misdiagnosed as the other.
Cite common OCD manifestations (such as Pure-O, Hoarding Disorder, Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Tic Disorder) in people with ADHD.
Apply treatment recommendations for OCD, as well as when someone has both OCD and ADHD.

Outline

OCD and ADHD Comorbidity

Prevalence Studies
Where ADHD Presents on the OCD Spectrum
Pure-O
Hoarding Disorder
Tic Disorder
Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Common Personality Traits

ADHD
OCD

Misdiagnosis

How ADHD is missed in OCD populations
How OCD is missed in ADHD populations

Neurology and Genetics

ADHD Brain
OCD Brain
ADHD and OCD Brains

Treatment

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Cognitive Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Medication
Advocacy

Obstacles in Treatment

Challenges for Clinicians in treating ADHD+OCD patients

Target Audience

Psychologists
Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Teachers/School Based Personnel
School Administrators
Addiction Professionals
Speech-Language Pathologists
Occupational Therapists
Dieticians

Copyright : 11/09/2023

The New Exposure Therapy: How Inhibitory Learning Can Improve Outcomes for OCD and Anxiety Disorders

Specific training on how to effectively implement exposure and response prevention for obsessive compulsive disorder and related anxiety disorders and related disorders is rare, and data suggest that even when individuals are trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, they often do not use exposure, or do not use it appropriately. In addition, the relative rarity of well-trained ERP practitioners makes it extremely difficult for OCD sufferers to find appropriate care, and many often wait years to get treatment. Finally, recent research on inhibitory learning, or how exposure works, suggests specific guidelines for amplifying treatment efficacy. Thus, this training serves a specific need in the field.

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Objectives

Evaluate exposure and response prevention and its efficacy.
Determine the inhibitory learning model of exposure therapies.
Analyze how exposure works from the perspective of inhibitory learning.
Design and conduct exposure exercises that support inhibitory learning.

Outline

How to structure exposure and response prevention hierarchies and "menus" consistent with inhibitory learning principles
How to support expectancy violation
How to minimize covert avoidance during exposure exercises
How to improve generalization and maintenance

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Tics and Tourette's Syndrome Treatment: Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) in Youth and Adults

Surges in tic-like behaviors are leaving record numbers of clients underserved.

And if you work with clients with ADHD, anxiety, or OCD without specific training in tics and Tourette’s…

…the fear of misdiagnosis, worsening symptoms, and less effective treatment is a real concern.

That’s where Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) comes in.

Backed by solid research and recommended by the American Academy of Neurology, CBIT is a source of hope for these clients, giving them a toolkit to significantly reduce the severity and frequency of their tic symptoms in as few as 8 sessions.

And now in this training you can learn to use CBIT in your practice so you can meet the growing demand for this specialized care.

You’ll watch expert Dr. Caleb Lack as he takes you through each step of this structured evidence-based technique, from conducting comprehensive assessments to using the specific interventions clients need to manage their tics and reclaim their lives.

You’ll finish this training ready to work with clients with vocal tics or motor tics, with a plan to help them modify the external factors that make their tics worse, redirect oncoming tics into competing behaviors, and reduce “in the moment” tic symptoms with specific strategies.

This is your chance to add a proven treatment to your practice and help clients improve their lives!

Purchase now!

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Objectives

Identify the likely causes and etiology of chronic tics, especially the neurobehavioral model.
Use current best practice guidelines recommended for treatment of chronic tic disorders.
Determine tic severity and type to manage tic symptoms.
Conduct a functional behavioral assessment for tics.
Determine functional interventions to help reduce the stress that increases tics.

Outline

Chronic Tic Characteristics and Origins

DSM-5-TR™ diagnostic categories
Types of tics – motor and vocal
Comorbidity with ADHD, anxiety, and other conditions
Impact of tics on daily life
Biological and social contributors
Neurobehavioral model of tics

Best Practices and Evidence-Based Treatments

Psychopharmacology
Deep brain stimulation
Behavioral interventions and CBIT
Who is CBIT right for?
Research, risks, and limitations for CBIT

How to Conduct Comprehensive Assessments in Clients of All Ages

What to look for in background and history
Comorbidity and adaptive functioning
Tools for identifying tic severity
Measuring premonitory urges

Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention (CBIT) for Tics: A Step-by-Step Guide to Assessment and Treatment

The Clinician’s Guide to Psychoeducation for Kids, Adults, and Families

Causes, prevalence, and more - understanding through active exploration
Common comorbidities
Provide actionable insights into psychosocial impairments
How to share education with peers, teachers, and relatives

Functional intervention: How to Modify Factors that Make Tics Worse

Address external factors
Target antecedents (internal and external) and consequences
How to conduct a function-based assessment (FBA)
Select function-based interventions (FBI) after FBA

Habit Reversal Training (HRT): Overcome the Urge

Internal factors that may be maintaining tics
Awareness training and identifying when a tic will occur
Competing response training
Social support
Use a reward system to help drive extrinsic motivation

Relaxation Training: Supplemental Strategies to Reduce Tic Symptoms

When tic-prone situations are not easily modifiable
Scripts and exercises to teach clients relaxation skills
How to plan for scheduled breaks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Occupational Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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