Scared Stiff!
Fast, Drug-Free Treatment for Anxiety Disorders
With David Burns, M.D.     13 CE/CME Credit Hours                                
 
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Dates & Locations

September 26-27, 2015  
Heritage Hall at Beth Jacobs
1855 Lavista Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30329     
404-633-0551



    

Registration Information

$295 Early Registration (received 14 days prior to workshop)

$315 Regular Registration (received within 14 days of workshop)

$335 Onsite Registration (space permitting)

Register by phone- 800-258-8411
Register by fax- 707-566-7474
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Workshop Brochure

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Disclosure Information

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Workshop Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be better able to:
  • Track therapeutic progress
  • Describe why therapists and patients alike avoid exposure
  • List ultra-high speed techniques for treating Panic Disorder
  • Develop a creative, individualized treatment plan for each patient
  • Distinguish Outcome from Process Resistance
  • Explain how to melt away therapeutic resistance by “Sitting with Open Hands”
  • Integrate Four powerful treatment models
  • Select the most effective interventions for each anxiety disorder

Workshop Description

Anxiety is arguably the single most common mental health problem. Most patients and therapists alike struggle from anxiety. Sadly, these days most people (therapists and clients alike) look to pills for a solution. However, the latest research indicates that this is an incomplete solution at best, and that the most effective treatments are drug-free.

In this workshop, Dr. Burns will illustrate how to integrate the Motivational, Cognitive, Exposure, and Hidden Emotion Models in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Phobias, Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder, Shyness, Public Speaking Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Performance Anxiety, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), and Hypochondriasis. The goal of the treatment is high-speed recovery and lasting change.

You will learn how to use a multitude of innovative, high-speed treatment methods, including the Experimental Technique, Feared Fantasy, Acceptance Paradox, Hidden Emotion Technique, Cognitive Flooding, Time-Travel, Shame-Attacking Exercises, and many more. Dr. Burns will not simply present a grab bag of techniques or formulas for various "disorders." Instead, he will show how to create a warm, vibrant collaborative relationship, overcome the patient’s resistance to change, and develop a systematic, individualized treatment plan that specifically targets each patient's unique problems and needs.

Dr. Burns will illustrate these new approaches with excerpts from one or more actual therapy session with individuals who are struggling with severe anxiety. You will see tears transformed into laughter when Dr. Burns gently but forcefully encourages each patient to confront his or her fears.

Come prepared to have fun while you learn from one of America's most highly acclaimed workshop leaders.

Workshop Agenda

Registration opens at 7:45 am each day.  The workshop days begin at 8:30 am and end at 4:30 pm.
Lunch is from 12 noon until 1 pm.  There will be 15 minute breaks at about 10 am and 3 pm.

Please Note: Dr. Burns offers optional presentations during the last half hour of lunch each day. You may bring your food into the seminar room and eat while you listen. However, in some locations itis difficult to be served and get back before the presentation begins.  If  you wish to attend, we strongly recommend you bring your own lunch.

Day 1

8:30 am -- 12:00 noon
Anxiety Hypnosis -- How your Anxious Patients cast a spell on you and sabotoge the treatment
Four Powerful Treatment Models for Anxiety Disorders
-- The Cognitive Model: I THINK therefore I FEAR
     Ex: Panic Disorder
-- The Exposure Model: Taking a page from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
     Ex: Blood Phobia
-- The Hidden Emotion Model: Cycling back to Freud?
     Ex: The Burrito Slasher
-- The Motivational Model: Heading off resistance at the pass
     Ex: A Case of Test Anxiety

12:00 -- 1:00 pm
Optional Luncheon Presentation (bring a sack lunch) -- Measurement: A Boring Topic With Exciting Implications

1:00 -- 4:30 pm
Overcoming Outcome and Process Resistance: The KEY to Successful Treatment
-- Magic Button and Magic Dial techniques
-- Acid Test
-- The Gentle Ultimatum
-- Dangling the Carrot
-- Sitting with Open Hands
Clinical Example
-- Engineer with Severe Body Dismorphic Disorder
Recovery Circle: Failing as Fast as You Can
-- Exercise: Learning to use the Circle
Individualizing the Treatment
-- Ex: A Visit to the Shopping Center from Hell

Day 2

8:30 am -- 12:00 noon
The Cognitive Model
-- Truth-Based Techniques
-- Compassion-Based Techniques
-- Uncovering Techniques
-- Motivational Techniques
-- Visual Imaging Techniques
-- Humor-Based Techniques
-- Spiritual Techniques

12:00 -- 1:00 pm
Optional Luncheon Presentation (bring a sack lunch) -- Controversies in Biological Psychiatry: Facts vs. Fiction

1:00 -- 4:30 pm
The Hidden Emotion Model
-- The Niceness Dynamic
-- Detective Work: Bringing Hidden Feelings to Conscious Awareness
     Ex: Woman Who Was Terrified of Losing Her Family
     Ex: Pathologist Who Feared Cadavers
Innovations in Exposure Therapy
-- Classic Exposure
     -- Flooding vs gradual exposure
     -- Response prevention
-- Cognitive Exposure
     -- The Feared Fantasy Technique
     -- The Acceptance Paradox
-- Interpersonal Exposure
     -- Shame-attacking exercises
     -- Rejection practice
     -- David Letterman Technique
Treatment Algorythms
-- Matching Techniques with Specific Anxiety Disorders
-- Who/What Do We Treat: The Person or the Disorder