Category 1 | CEUs: 2
Presenter: Rachel Phillips-Anderson, LCSW-C (https://www.rpatherapy.com)
Description:
Clients often enter therapy preoccupied with threats – real and perceived. Trying to control their anxiety can eat up much of their attention, with little left over for what is really important in their lives. Present-moment awareness techniques can help clients regain control over their attention so that anxiety doesn’t have to get in the way of valued activities.
Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand anxiety from a present-moment awareness perspective.
- Help clients recognize the negative impact of anxiety, learn control strategies and increase their acceptance of anxiety.
- Identify 5 psychological tasks involved in present-moment awareness.
- Describe how mindfulness can help clients regain focus on valued activity.
Agenda
12:00 – Introductions and assessment of audience experience & objectives
12:15 – Theory of anxiety from a present-moment awareness perspective
12:30 – Presentation of a five-phase present-moment clinical approach:
1) Notice, 2) Name, 3) Detach, 4) Practice self-compassion, and 5) expand
1:15 -- Experiential exercise
1:35 – Conclusion and summary of how clinicians could incorporate these ideas/skills in
their practices
1:50 – Q and A
Bibliography
Eifert GH, Forsyth JP (2005). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders. Oakland, CA, New Harbinger Publications.
Fleming, JE, Kocovski, NL (2009). Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Treatment Manual, available at: http://www.actonsocialanxiety.com/pdf/Treatment_Manual.pdf
Hayes, S.C., Strosahl, K.D., & Wilson, K.G. (1999). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An experiential approach to behavior change. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Roemer, L., & Orsillo, S.M. (2005). An acceptance-based behavior therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. In S.M. Orsillo & L. Roemer (Eds.) Acceptance and mindfulness-based approaches to anxiety: Conceptualization and treatment (pp. 213-240). New York, NY: Springer.
Strosahl, K., Robinson, P. J., & Gustavsson, T. (2015). Inside this moment: A clinician's guide to promoting radical change using acceptance and commitment therapy. Oakland, CA: Context Press.
