COURSE DESCRIPTION

The anxiety disorders—Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, and Specific Phobia—are one of the most frequent diagnostic groups seen in clinical settings. Fortunately, this group is highly treatable. Over the last 20 years innovative and effective pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatments have been devised and tested for this group of disorders. This intermediate workshop is designed to help you diagnose and formulate effective treatment approaches to these disorders, using an approach that—despite the surface differences of the various anxiety disorders—allows for a conceptually unified and effective approach to these disorders.

TOPICS

-Epidemiology of the Anxiety Disorders

-Chronicity of Untreated Anxiety Disorders

-Anxiety: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

-Evolution of CBT: “Third Wave” Behavior Therapies

-Change Versus Acceptance & Experiential Avoidance

-What Maintains Anxiety – The Role Of Avoidance

-Metaphor Of The “False Alarm”

-Basic CBT Principles & Unified Treatment Approaches

-Cognitive versus Behavioral Approaches

-Anxiety Management Skills & Reversing Avoidance

-Extinction & Exposure

-CBT Outcome Data & Applications

GOALS

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

1. Learn how common (and costly) the anxiety disorders are in clinical practice as well as in society at large.

2. Know the diagnostic array of the anxiety disorders.

3. Understand how the similarities among the anxiety disorders allows for a unified treatment approach.

4. Learn how the field of CBT has been evolving recently.

5. Understand how to apply CBT principles to the anxiety disorders.

6. Comprehend the outcome literature for these therapies

SPEAKER PROFILE

Rodney Boone, Ph.D. is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience treating individuals with anxiety disorders. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Psychiatry, and is the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California, a group practice offering cognitive behavioral therapy for the mood, anxiety, and OC Spectrum disorders. Dr. Boone lectures frequently on the application of CBT to various emotional disorders.