David Burns – Treat Anxiety Fast: Powerful, Fast-Acting, Drug-Free Treatment Techniques that Defeat Anxiety & Worry

Outline

Day 1
What is TEAM-CBT? Reverse Hypnosis

• How your anxious patients cast a spell on you and sabotage the treatment

Four Powerful Treatment Models for Anxiety Disorders

1. The Cognitive Model: I THINK therefore I FEAR
   • Single session treatment for Panic Disorder (video)
2. The Exposure Model: Taking a Page from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
   • Blood Phobia
3. The Hidden Emotion Model: Cycling Back to Freud?
   • The Burrito Slasher
4. The Motivational Model: Heading Off the Resistance at the Pass
   • A Case of Severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Overcoming Toxic Shame (video)

• Magic Button
• Positive Reframing
• Acid Test
• Magic Dial

Clinical Exercise

• Electrical engineer with Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Recovery Circle: Failing as Fast as You Can
  • A Visit to the Shopping Center from Hell

Day 2
The Cognitive Model

• Truth-Based Techniques
• Compassion-Based Techniques
• Uncovering Techniques
• Motivational Techniques
• Quantitative Techniques
• Visual Imaging Techniques
• Humor-Based Techniques
• Role-Playing Techniques
• Spiritual Techniques

The Hidden Emotion Model

• The Niceness Dynamic
• Bringing Hidden Feelings to Conscious Awareness

Innovations in Exposure Therapy

• Classical, Cognitive, and Interpersonal Exposure

Treatment Algorithms

• Who Do We Treat? The Person or the Disorder?

Relapse Prevention Training

• Getting Better vs. Feeling Better