TIMES: The workshop runs from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm on the first day, and 9:30 to 5:00 on the second day. Lunch is on your own from 12:30  to 1:45 pm both days.

Day 1: Morning

The Anxiety Equation

• What do anxiety disorders have in common?
• How do they differ from one another?

Protocols are important but not the whole story

Common Treatment Principles

• Identify central anxious thoughts

 – importance of specificity

 – imagery

• Bring anxiety into the room

 – avoidance vs. approach

 – experiential approaches preferred

• Search for safety behaviours
• Conceptualization

 – identify triggers & responses

 – maintenance factors

Anxiety Traps & Antidotes

Danger Disorders: OCD, Panic Disorder, Health Worries

• Profiles - What are the Dangers? Central  Beliefs? Safety Behaviours?

• Treatments Overview

Day 1: Afternoon

Danger Disorders: : OCD, Panic Disorder, Health Worries

•  Two theory approach
•  Inductions and exposure methods tailored to  each
• Behavioural experiments designed to test  central beliefs
• Socratic dialogue to maximize client learning

• Stopping safety behaviours

Day 2: Morning

Coping Disorders: GAD, Phobias, Social Anxiety

• Why focus on coping?
• Treatment overview

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

• What's wrong with worry?
• The antidote to "what if?"

Phobias

•  Exposure hierarchies & graduated mastery

• Role of positive imagery

Social Anxiety as Illustration

• Assertive defence of the self
• Debrief behavioural experiments with model in mind

Day 2: Afternoon

Danger & Coping: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

• Natural recovery, resilience & PTSD
• Ehlers & Clark model
• Memory issues - flashbacks, gaps & hotspots
• Imagery & trauma
• Treatment stages with case examples

Life After Anxiety: Imagine That!

• Living with vulnerability
• Coping & resilience

Anxiety Traps & CBT Antidotes - Review