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- Target panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, OCD and PTSD
- Develop more targeted treatment plans
- Refocus psycho-education for enhanced treatment readiness
- Blend transdiagnostic and disorder-specific strategies
- Target faulty control and its consequences
- Utilize real-time evaluation for treatment process modulation
This program turns a spotlight onto the problem of poor treatment response. Learn why cognitive (or cognitive behavior) therapy so often fails in clinical practice and how to reverse this trend with difficult, chronically anxious individuals. Based on 25 years of clinical practice and research on the emotional disorders, Dr. David A. Clark outlines a modified, targeted form of cognitive therapy for panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, OCD and PTSD that emphasizes an integration of transdiagnostic and disorder-specific interventions. Case examples, role plays, and workshop demonstrations are combined with an interactive didactic style that will create a skills- based learning environment. You will learn new ideas and a modified approach to therapy that is tailored to difficult cases found in the five most common anxiety disorders.
OBJECTIVES
- Identify factors in cognitive therapy (or cognitive behavior therapy) that could weaken treatment effectiveness for the anxiety disorders.
- Assess transdiagnostic (common) and specific processes responsible for the persistence of anxiety.
- Develop a psychoeducation model that maximizes client collaboration and engagement.
- Apply specific transdiagnostic intervention strategies to address comorbidity and generalized distress.
- Implement disorder-specific interventions that target unique cognitive and behavior processes in panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, OCD and PTSD.
- Instruct clients in the elimination of suppression and use of behavioral experiments to increase tolerance of anxiety and distress.
- Apply real-time between-session self-recording exercises to increase treatment relevance and client-defined effectiveness.
OUTLINE
Broken Promises in the Practice of Evidence-Based Treatment
- Recent developments in the cognitive and neurophysiology of anxiety
- Transdiagnostic and disorder-specific cognitive therapy for anxiety
- The problem of dissemination and shortcomings in real-world clinical application
The Four C’s of Treatment Failure in the Anxiety Disorders
- Complexity: the multifaceted nature of clinical anxiety
- Chronicity: the remarkable endurance of distress
- Comorbidity: the co-occurrence of multiple disorders
- Complacency: the problem of resigned accommodation
Retooling Assessment, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
- Blend standardized and idiographic assessment tools to maximize treatment relevant information
- Construct a cognitive case formulation that targets core common and specific processes in the anxiety disorders
- Develop treatment goals and plan strategies that incorporate the four C’s
Enhancing Psychoeduction to Maximize Treatment Readiness
- Create an individualized, experience-based and action-oriented model for the client’s anxiety episodes
- Utilize plain language to communicate treatment rationale, expectations and goals
- Enhance client collaboration and treatment engagement
- Correct destructive treatment expectations and beliefs
- Address homework noncompliance in a constructive manner
Intervention Strategies for Transdiagnostic Processes
- Target emotional reasoning and intolerance of anxiety
- Reduce avoidance and safety-seeking
- Correct faulty meta-cognition
- Normalize worry and eliminate rumination
Interventions for Disorder-Specific Processes
- Address content-specific automatic thoughts, beliefs and appraisals
- Tailor exposure-based behavioral experiments for adaptive fear activation
- Treat core disorder-specific cognitive processes in panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, OCD and PTSD
Excessive Control and the Deleterious Effects of Suppression
- Correct erroneous beliefs about control
- Modify faulty control strategies
- Counter naturally occurring cognitive and emotive suppression
Real-Time Evaluation of Treatment Process
- Use diaries, rating forms and self-monitoring charts (samples provided) for between-session recording of transdiagnostic and disorder-specific symptoms
- Incorporate real-time data collection in the therapy process
- Employ individualized evaluation tools to verify treatment success
ABOUT DAVID A CLARK, Ph.D.
David A. Clark, Ph.D. is a licensed, practicing clinical psychologist and professor at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Trained at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, England and Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania, he has worked extensively with Dr. Aaron T. Beck, founder of cognitive therapy. With more than 25 years of research and clinical experience in treatment of depression and the anxiety disorders, Dr. Clark is a leading expert in cognitive therapy for the emotional disorders. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and received the Aaron T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contributions to Cognitive Therapy in 2008 by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
Dr. Clark wrote Cognitive Therapy for Anxiety Disorders; Science and Practice (2010, Guilford Press) and Scientific Foundations of Cognitive Theory and Therapy of Depression (1999, Wiley), which he co-authored with Dr. Aaron T. Beck. He also authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for OCD (2004, Guilford Press) as well as co-authored Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: Free Your Mind from OCD with Dr. Christine Purdon (2005, New Harbinger Press). He has published over 100 research papers and scholarly publications in refereed journals and edited books, and his research continues to be well-funded by various national grants. He was associate editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research and is current associate editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. He has been a keynote speaker at national and international conferences such as the World Congress of Behaviour and Cognitive Therapy (2010, Boston) and the British Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2010, Manchester). Over the years he has conducted numerous workshops and professional training seminars on cognitive therapy throughout North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Currently he is completing a client workbook on cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders with Dr. Beck that will be published by Guilford Press.
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