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So many times in my practice I’ve met new clients who’ve seen multiple therapists and have tried an array of medications, only to continue to be plagued with unrelenting anxiety. When they show up at my office they are frustrated and nearly hopeless.
After studying the latest research, working with experts in the field, and almost exclusively treating clients with anxiety disorders for more than 20 years, I can help even the most treatment resistant clients.
Since the early days of my clinical career, I have developed creative, yet simple, methods that have been vital to providing relief for chronic anxiety. These techniques are easy to implement and can help your clients quickly achieve therapeutic results.
Attend this two-day intensive seminar and develop the skills you need to help your clients overcome worry, panic attacks, phobias, OCD, social anxiety and insomnia.
Effectively Target and Transform Clients with Difficult Problems such as:
Through several demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you will develop the skills to help even the toughest anxious and sleep-deprived clients. We will explore progressive relaxation, observation and acceptance strategies, time management, mindful labeling, postponing worry, interoceptive exposure, stimulus control, sleep-restriction therapy and much more.
If you are dealing with clients who:
Then you will be glad you attended this conference!
See you there!
Jennifer L. Abel, Ph.D.
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TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR ANXIETY
Trying NOT to Worry Makes it Worse: The White Bear Research
Mindfulness
Cognitive Therapy
Progressive Relaxation (PR)
Problem Solving Strategies
Exposure Strategies
Make Your Own Recordings:
SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS AND INSOMNIA
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
OCD
Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks
Agoraphobia and Specific Phobia
Social Anxiety
Insomnia
TREATMENT RESISTANT ANXIETY
When CBT isn’t Effective Enough
Personality Traits Associated with Anxiety and What To Do:
OBJECTIVES
To order the book, Resistant Anxiety, Worry, & Panic: 86 Practical Treatment Strategies for Clinicians, please visit our product store.
To order the book, Anxiety: Treatment Techniques That Really Work, please visit our product store.
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This course is available for 12.5 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 12.5 continuing education credits.
File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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Additional Participant CE Request Form (125.4 KB) | 7 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
Manual (23.4 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Manual | 70 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
Worry Outcome Diary (18.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Problem Solving Worksheet (21.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Panic Attack Assessment Form (21.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Jennifer L. Abel, PhD, international speaker, author and clinical psychologist, has specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorders for over 20 years. Before opening a private practice, she served as the associate director of the Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute at Penn State under the direction of the leading expert in Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), T.D. Borkovec.
Her first book, Active Relaxation (Self-Published, 2010), has received outstanding reviews from mental health care professionals and anxious readers alike. Her second book, Resistant Anxiety, Worry, and Panic: 86 Practical Treatment Strategies for Clinicians (PESI, 2014), has received praise from top experts in anxiety management. Jennifer is also the author of The Anxiety, Worry & Depression Workbook: 65 Exercises, Worksheets & Tips to Improve Mood and Feel Better (PESI, 2018) and the Melt Worry and Relax Card Deck: 56 CBT & Mindfulness Strategies to Release Anxiety (PESI, 2016).
Dr. Abel has published many articles in professional journals and wrote a pamphlet about GAD for ABCT. She has been quoted by several popular magazines (e.g., Health, Prevention, Glamour) for her expertise in Worry. Dr. Abel presents to the public (e.g., Working Women’s Survival Show), as well as professionals (e.g., Australian Psychological Society; Anxiety Disorder Association of America).
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TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR ANXIETY
Trying NOT to Worry Makes it Worse: The White Bear Research
Mindfulness
Cognitive Therapy
Progressive Relaxation (PR)
Problem Solving Strategies
Exposure Strategies
Make Your Own Recordings:
SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS AND INSOMNIA
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
OCD
Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks
Agoraphobia and Specific Phobia
Social Anxiety
Insomnia
TREATMENT RESISTANT ANXIETY
When CBT isn’t Effective Enough
Personality Traits Associated with Anxiety and What To Do:
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