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Social Anxiety Disorder Comprehensive Training Course: Evidence-Based CBT Strategies to Overcome Fear, Stress, and Avoidance

You’re seeing a huge spike in socially anxious clients…

It doesn’t matter if you treat adults, teens, or even kids…it’s at your door and in your waiting room.

As cases of social anxiety disorder rise, you need to be prepared to address it head-on and help your clients who are battling avoidance, self-judgement, shame, or even thoughts of suicide.

That’s why Larry Cohen, LICSW, A-CBT, cofounder of the National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC), developed this immersive new training. Larry has trained thousands of clinicians just like you to go beyond merely suppressing the beliefs of socially anxious clients, to creating new learning for them that paves a path for enduring change.

With over three decades of frontline experience, Larry shows you step by step how to treat Social Anxiety Disorder with real-life client demonstrations and gives you the tools to tailor your treatment plans to handle even the most daunting cases.

This training isn’t just an option; it’s an essential tool in your therapeutic arsenal.

If you’re looking to improve your treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder, you need more than just standard interventions. This is your way to reach into the core of your client’s beliefs and unlock the chains of anxiety that imprison them.

Don’t miss your opportunity to make a profound difference in the lives of your clients when they need it most.

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Program Information

Objectives

Determine what social anxiety disorder is, its impact on those who suffer from it, and what treatments have been demonstrated to be most effective.
Employ strategies to help clients understand the impact of self-focus and self-evaluation when experiencing social anxiety, and how to use external mindfulness when socially anxious.
Utilize strategies to train clients in differing means of doing cognitive restructuring before and after social anxiety triggers.
Construct behavioral experiments / exposures to test socially anxious thoughts and underlying core beliefs, and to increase client motivation to carry out such experiments.
Demonstrate strategies to train clients in the use of assertive defense of the self to increase self-confidence in handling fears come true.
Utilize strategies to help clients identify and change underlying core beliefs that exacerbate their social anxiety.

Outline

Understanding Social Anxiety & Its Evidence-Based Treatment

Resources for therapists and for consumers
Basic facts about social anxiety, and the role of shame
Diversity factors in social anxiety
The vicious cycle of socially anxious beliefs, automatic thoughts, feelings and behaviors; walking through an example
Brief overview of outcome studies on social anxiety treatment
Integrating the 3 waves: debates and syntheses
Debate on accepting anxiety vs. decreasing anxiety as therapy goal
The 5 core CBT treatment strategies: external mindfulness; cognitive restructuring; behavioral experiments; assertiveness training; core belief change work

Accepting and Defusing from Socially Anxious Thoughts

External Mindfulness (curiosity training)
- Rationale
- Debate on external mindfulness vs. internal mindfulness (meditation)
- Thought and feeling defusion
- Introducing external mindfulness to clients with in-session experiments and video recording
- Clinical demonstration of introducing clients to external mindfulness in session
- Homework to help clients master external mindfulness while observing and participating

Changing Socially Anxious Thoughts

Cognitive Restructuring (reframing)
- Rationale
- Themes of socially anxious hot thoughts
- Debate on defusing from negative thoughts vs. reframing them
- Debate on how and when to do cognitive restructuring for social anxiety
- Debate on targeting verbal vs. imaginal thoughts
- How to introduce clients to cognitive restructuring
- Clinical demonstration of role-played cognitive restructuring argument
- Clinical demonstration of use of confident imagery to reframe hot thoughts
- Homework to help clients master cognitive restructuring

Testing Anxious Thoughts And Reducing Avoidance

Behavioral Experiments (exposures)
- Rationale
- Debate on exposures for habituation vs. experiments for learning /cognitive restructuring
- How to choose experiments
- Debate on what types of experiments to choose: straightforward vs. paradoxical (social mishap, de-catastrophizing, shameattacking); examples of both types
- Debate on use of fear hierarchies
- In-session and homework experiments
- Use of video for in-session experiments
- Clinical demonstration of use of video
- Introducing clients to safety-seeking behaviors and how they are self-defeating
- Common safety-seeking behaviors
- Identifying, reducing and eliminating safetyseeking behaviors
- Carrying out experiments: before, during and after
- Debate on accepting anxiety vs. defying /combatting anxiety
- Strategies to increase follow-through and decrease avoidance of experiments
- Clinical demonstration of consensual role play to increase motivation to do experiments
- Use of surveys as experiments

Assertiveness To Increase Self-Confidence

Assertive Defense Of The Self (head-held-high assertion)
- Rationale
- How to practice the strategy in session and in homework
- Debate on the limitations of the strategy, and ways to address these limitations
- Clinical demonstrations (2 or 3) of practicing this strategy in role plays

Changing Core Beliefs To Increase Self- Confidence; Making Progress Beyond Therapy

Rationale
Debate on whether to target core beliefs at all when treating social anxiety
Themes of core beliefs in social anxiety
Helping clients identify their unhealthy core beliefs
Helping client write drafts of healthy new core beliefs
Core belief change strategies
Clinical demonstration of core belief argument
Clinical demonstration of then vs. now

Progress During And Beyond Therapy

Review of using scales for assessment and monitoring progress
Termination strategies to maintain progress, make further progress beyond therapy, and to prevent relapse

Target Audience

Counselors
Therapists
Psychologists
Addiction counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Social Workers

Copyright : 21/05/2024

Phobias, Social Anxiety, and Performance Anxiety: Go Beyond Talk Therapies with Evidence-Based Emotional Freedom Techniques, Tapping, and More

Whether it’s heights, tests, flying, driving, social interaction, or public speaking, what scares your clients shrinks their lives as they avoid the things they fear.

They come to you for help so that they can be free to make choices, rather than having their fear choose for them.

You want to offer your clients fast, evidence-based, long-lasting relief - and now you can, with Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and related energy psychology tools!

With EFT, you can quickly bring down your clients’ emotional and somatic distress so that they can get back to living their lives without anxiety. Using powerful yet gentle desensitization, you can teach your clients to self-administer effective, step-by-step relaxation that will allow them to be fully present - even when their fear is connected to a previous trauma.

It’s no wonder thousands of therapists already count on EFT for their “go-to techniques” clients overwhelmed by fear and anxiety need when they’re stuck in the moment saying “what do I do now?”

Watch author, researcher, clinician, and EFT International Trainer, Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP, as she expertly covers everything from the basics and foundational language all the way to advanced EFT, tapping, and energy psychology techniques. This highly experiential, neurologically-informed training will cover:

Techniques to combine and integrate EFT tapping into talk therapies
Simple ways to release your client’s terror to maneuver life enhancing events
Steps to quickly dislodge the small “t” or big “t’ traumas that often fuel phobias and performance anxiety.
Methods to release physical signs of distress, like sweating, heart palpitations, and more
4 quick ways to release pain
And so much more!

Go beyond talk therapy to bring Emotional Freedom Techniques, tapping, energy psychology and more into your practice and feel comfortable applying them with your clients right away!

Purchase today!

Program Information

Objectives

Identify how EFT Tapping and EP desensitize the interconnection of unwanted thoughts, emotions and the corresponding physical discomfort.
Identify skills to break down a problem into small, treatable parts.
Utilize continuous numerical measurement (SUDS levels) to guide treatment interventions.
Utilize clinical strategies and evidence-based assessments to identify small “t” traumatic events.
Use a two-prong approach to treat Social Anxiety with Tapping and EP techniques.
Identify 4 non-medication pain reduction/release strategies.

Outline

EFT, Tapping, and Energy Psychology: Becoming a Brief Therapy Expert

Intro to EFT tapping and energy psychology
Skills to break the main issue into small treatable aspects/parts
Release body distress so clients can think more clearly
Continuous tracking of progress with the use of the SUDS scale
Myths and realities of EFT tapping
Research limitations and potential risks
Experiential practice and tapping session demonstrations

Release Distress with EFT Tapping and Energy Psychology: Step-by-Step Models to Help Clients Live with Less Fear

Phobias

Treat phobias with mind-body tools, EFT, tapping and EP methods
Assess for phobias and functional limitations
Questions to locate the origin of the phobia
Explore and release client triggers
Find and desensitize all aspects in the past, present, and future worries
Go beyond talk by adding cognitivesomatic interventions
Release and desensitize the overpowering somatic reactions of fear
A new approach to powerful yet gentle desensitization and imaginal exposure
Importance in persistence of repetition
Experiential breakout groups
Live demo of treating a phobia

Performance Anxiety

Treating performance anxiety with EFT and EP
Identify, list and desensitize the worries and dread of performance
Quiet the overpowering physicality of stress in performance
Address the thought, emotion, and physical reactions involved in performance
Desensitize present, past, and future worries
Strengthens the joy of performance to be used for a final positive round
Tighten the benefit with a final positive intervention
Desensitize any and all poor/worst performances in the past
Clarify interventions for the performing arts, sports, communication issues, and more

Social Anxiety

Identify the situations where the client is impeded by social anxiety
Search for the first or worst event, the small “t” trauma in each situation
Set up and rapidly implement a hierarchical desensitization program
Facilitate client courage and social ease
Explain and practice ice breakers and small talk social skills

Pain Reduction and Release

Byproduct or side effect of EFT tapping
4 techniques to release pain
Additional language tips including metaphors and emotions
A mobile tool
Demo of pain release
Experiential group experience noting pain reduction

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychotherapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Psychologists
Substance Use Disorders Counselors
Occupational Therapists
Case Managers
Chaplains/Clergy
Psychiatrists
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

ADHD, Social Anxiety and Rejection Sensitivity

Many children and adults with ADHD struggle with fears of embarrassment, rejection or criticism and hold back from participating in the relationships they truly desire. Following these past two years of isolation and restrictions, social anxiety and rejection sensitivity have increased for clients with ADHD of all ages.

In this session, Dr. Sharon Saline, award-winning author, international speaker and consultant will teach you how to help your clients participate in social situations with more confidence and less self-criticism. After describing how social anxiety works and its relationship to perfectionism and rejection sensitivity dysphoria, Dr. Saline will demonstrate interventions and tools to:

Improve communication skills and connection while reducing discomfort and insecurity
Initiate and maintain friendships, manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria
Promote resilience and growth mindsets in clients of all ages with ADHD

Program Information

Objectives

Demonstrate how social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria operate for children and adults with ADHD.
Develop effective strategies with clients for managing social situations and personal relationships with ease and confidence.
Determine which communication skills would best assist clients in engaging in clear, appropriate and meaningful conversations.

Outline

Nervousness, worry and general anxiety in the brain and the body
Elements of social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria and their relationship to ADHD
Efficacy of clinical interventions and modalities for working with ADHD and social anxiety
Strategies and tools for improving connections, communication and confidence

Target Audience

Counselors
Educators/Teachers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Physicians
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Psychologists
Speech-Language Pathologists
Social Workers