Breaking the Generational Cycle of Worry: Treating Anxiety Disorders
This workshop will provide concrete and often counter-intuitive strategies that normalize worry for families. It will provide an “umbrella approach” that is applicable to all of the anxiety disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Lyons will also describe simple, process-based strategies for interrupting patterns of thinking that inadvertently support the avoidance of anxious symptoms.
J&K Seminars does not provide NBCC credit for this program.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
Streaming videos and audio downloads will be available immediately after checkout
Mailed CD and DVD formats include the printed handouts and CE test in an attractive portfolio
Objectives
Participants will be able to describe:
- How to coach adults to interrupt their own patterns of anxious parenting
- How to develop active assignments for families to correct the common cognitive traps that bolster anxiety and depression
- The difference between content-based and process-based interventions
- How to use playfulness, humor, games, collaboration, and active homework assignments
- How to create interventions that interrupt the process rather than the content of OCD in families
Topics
A Process-Based Approach to Anxiety
- Three Critical Concepts
- Patterns of Worried Families
- Don’t do the Disorder
The Seven Puzzle Pieces
- Getting out of the Anxiety Cult
- The Importance of Frontloading
- Cognitive Patterns: The GCPs
- Creating Interventions and Homework
Schools, Accommodations, and Parents
- Creating Effective Behavioral Plans
- Case Studies and Common Issues
The Three Frames for Treatment and Prevention
- Experience is Variable
- The Value of Parts
- Action Counts
The Challenge of Somatic Symptoms
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The Importance of Process
- Myths and Current Research
- Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis
- Creating a Family Plan
- Ideas and Interventions: Ways to Teach the Skills
- Current Research on Medications