This advanced workshop will outline and demonstrate a rapid-gain model of initiating treatment for panic disorder, social anxiety, phobias and OCD. Dr. Wilson will outline the treatment strategy, step-by-step, and illustrate each stage with videotaped segments of therapist-client interaction in the first two sessions of treatment. Attention will focus on how the clinician presents the paradigm in a manner persuasive enough to counter the dread of symptoms and their feared consequences.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this conference, participants will be able to:
1. Defend the importance of altering perception, as opposed to utilizing technique, to help clients with anxiety disorders.
2. Guide a client in logically dismantling the common dysfunctional frames of reference of an anxiety disorder or OCD.
3. Construct with a client a new, internally-consistent paradoxical frame of reference.
4. Explain how to use reappraisal to activate “approach” emotions toward anxious uncertainty during exposure.
5. Teach a client how to activate that new frame of reference moment-by-moment while engaging in threatening situations.
6. Teach a client how to use both motivational and instructional self-talk cues to enhance exposure.
Reid Wilson, PhD, is Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill, NC, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine, and in 2014 he was honored as the 2nd ever recipient of the highest award given by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. He is author or co-author of 5 books, including Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks.
