Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting
children and are frequently misinterpreted as behavior problems.
Participants will learn how to apply effective cognitive and behavioral
skills, structured around universal evidence-based treatment strategies.
This prescriptive approach identifies and matches specific client
characteristics with the most compatible interventions. We will orient
around the themes of modifying resistance, habituation, long-term belief
change, pattern disruption and securing the family system. The day will
be divided into two sets of tasks: those for the therapist and those for the client. Therapist tasks will include a getting-to-work partnership, curiosity, finding hooks, homework and enlisting parents. Client tasks will include self-monitoring, personifying the anxiety, challenging worry content, tolerating distress and doubt, letting go of safety crutches, playing with anxiety, taking on the bully and generating homework. While treatment protocols for specific disorders will not be reviewed, participants can apply these skills for separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
APS ENDORSED ACTIVITY 7 POINTS, CLINICAL & COUNSELLING.
Reid Wilson is a clinical psychologist and Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine. Dr. Wilson is an international expert in the treatment of anxiety
disorders, with books translated into seven languages. He is author of
Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks and Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks and is co-author with Edna Foa of
Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions,
and co-author of Achieving a Comfortable Flight, a self-help package
for the fearful flier. He designed and served as lead psychologist for
American Airlines' first national program for the fearful flier.
Dr. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders
Association of America for twelve years. He served as Program Chair of
the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders from 1988-1991. His free
self-help website - www.anxieties.com serves 500,000 visitors
(26 million hits) per year. He has been an invited presenter at eight
International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and
Psychotherapy. His published videos include Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (American Psychological Association); Initial Interventions in Panic Disorder: a Demonstration (University of Connecticut); Treatment of Panic Disorder (Erickson Foundation) and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Erickson Foundation).
Further information about Dr. Wilson at www.anxieties.com
TRAINING AND REGISTRATION BROCHURE
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FOR SECURE ONLINE REGISTRATION
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DATES AND LOCATIONS
MELBOURNE
Wednesday 27th MAY 2009
Oaks on Market, Melbourne
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SYDNEY
Monday 8th JUNE 2009
Rydges Hotel, North Sydney
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BOOKS BY REID WILSON
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