Overcoming the Viscous Cycle Of Anxiety and Avoidance
Overcoming the Viscous Cycle of Anxiety & Avoidance
As helping professionals, we know all too well how debilitating anxiety can be on our clients� ability to lead full and joyful lives. Often their own self-critical thinking, avoidance and reliance on safety behaviors only exacerbate their pain. We also know that COVID-19 has doubled the increase in for mental health problems for those who had the virus.
This highly interactive, experiential workshop teaches participants how to engage, even the most anxious client, with practical, �doable� skills that will increase our clients� confidence and ability to overcome anxiety.
This workshop will teach clinicians how to help clients identify, manage and combat symptoms, as well as insidious, unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. By enhancing clients� problem-solving abilities and overcoming avoidance; clinicians will finally be able to help clients enhance their confidence and succeed in moving forward from the trap of anxiety.
There will be a brief presentation of what the latest research reveals about we know of how COVID 19 has impacted how the human brain functions and the link to mental illness. In addition, a rare opportunity to discuss case examples of how we are seeing this manifest in our clients.
Course Objectives
Participants will learn to help clients identify and re-direct their attention to understanding anxiety instead of beating themselves up for, being anxious about being anxious.
Participants will review the various causes of anxiety and what keeps clients in a perpetual, vicious cycle of avoidance and worry.
Participants actively engage in learning and practicing concrete treatment interventions that interrupt the vicious cycle of anxiety and avoidance behaviors.
Topic(s)
Anxiety, Enviornment
All live-online courses are approved by the following:
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Psychologist
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