ANXIETY THERAPY -- Audiovisual Resources
Consistent with this site's Mindfulness and Acceptance orientation, here's a quote I recently discovered:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
and a comment, also relevant:
"If love is the unconditional acceptance of what is, then fear is the non-acceptance of what is, leading to resistance. Where there is love, oneness naturally exists; where there is fear, understanding and compassion go missing."Peter Shepherd [LINK]
Wishing all of my readers, love, strength, understanding, forbearance, and especially, Self-Compassion, as you go about the challenge of How you go about confronting your fears -- the message of many of these resources, and much research.
These audiovisual materials were obtained as free downloads from Psychotherapy Networker -- [LINK]
-- a most valuable resource for counsellors and therapists.
These resources discuss important elements in helping in counselling -- please note: these are of approximately an hour's duration, and approximately 300Mb in size (video), or 100 Mb (audio) so bandwidth considerationa are important. ALSO -- these are provided as "professional-to-professional" communicatioms, and must be properly cited (back to Psychotherapy Networker as the producer -- [LINK]), and should not be re-produced without proper permission.
Session 1, Motivating the Anxious Client: A Paradoxical Approach
-- With David Burns, M. D. .
With David Burns you'll be able to explain the basic principles underlying 4 models of brief anxiety treatment (cognitive, exposure, motivational, and hidden emotion). You'll also be able to identify the two kinds of resistance to change and discuss ways to quickly eliminate anxiety symptoms without using medications.
Website: [LINK]
MP3 format [LINK]Session 2, The Neurobiology of Anxiety
-- With Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D.
Review how brain science has enhanced our ability to match our interventions to the brain structures and processes characterizing different kinds of anxiety and how to clearly convey neuroscience information to clients in ways that can have a calming effect and enhance treatment effectiveness.
MP3 format [LINK]Session 3, Interrupting the Anxiety Cycle
with Danie Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Expand your understanding of the sources for different kinds of anxiety along with your repertoire of interventions, including metaphors, visual images, and multisensory messages to more fully engage clients and achieve greater impact than is possible with purely word-bound communication.
MP3 format [LINK]Session 4, Single-Session Cures with Anxiety Problems
with Steve Andreas, M. A.
Be able to describe the fundamentals of Neuro-Linguistic Programming that apply to anxiety. You'll also be able to explain the significance of the auditory and visual representations that clients make of anxiety-provoking situations and illustrate how techniques drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming can rapidly cure anxiety.
MP3 format [LINK]- Session 5, Parents, Children, and Anxiety: Changing the Family Dance
with Lynn Lyons, L.I.C.S.W.
Learn an enjoyable, humor-based, 3-step program of concrete exercises for both parents and children that help them normalize anxiety (de-catastrophize it), externalize it (turn the internal state into external metaphors that can be dealt with more readily), and experiment with it (find innovative, playful ways to deal with it).
MP3 format [LINK] - Session 6, Defeating Panic
with Reid Wilson, Ph. D.
With Reid Wilson you'll be able to explain why clients’ panic is perpetuated when they flee from it and discuss how to help clients gradually understand how to approach and overcome their anxiety. You'll also be able to understand the significance of helping clients exaggerate, personify, and caricature their feelings of panic.
MP3 format [LINK]
Reviewing the videos in the Emotion Skills series could well be of further assistance, depending on the results of a comprehensive evaluation of the person involved -- [LINK]
GENERAL & PRINT RESOURCES FOR ANXIETY -- [LINK]