National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week

In recognition of Stress Awareness Month, we're bringing you these resources.

PESI Team

Each year the first week of May is recognized as National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week. This week is utilized to raise awareness surrounding some of the most common mental health disorders while also eliminating the stigmas surrounding mental illness.

While it is normal in today’s world to feel anxious and sad at times, there are also situations that may warrant treatment from a licensed mental health clinician. Depression and Anxiety are both disorders that can be treated through evidence-based therapy, medications, or both.

Check out our carefully chosen list of products below to discover new treatments and techniques that can help those clients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Digital Seminar – Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression & Anxiety
Self-Compassion for Educators
Join CBT expert and author, John Ludgate, Ph.D., and learn advanced CBT techniques to treat chronic or recurring depression and anxiety. Clients with a high relapse potential or chronic depression and anxiety are very complex and challenging to treat, and Dr. Ludgate will teach you special augmented CBT strategies which can easily be incorporated into your everyday practice.
Book - The Anxiety, Worry & Depression Workbook: 65 Exercises, Worksheets & Tips to Improve Mood and Feel Better
Beyond Behaviors
It’s hard to fight back against anxiety, worry and depression … and it’s even harder to face and overcome those fears by yourself.That’s why anxiety expert Jennifer Abel, PhD, has compiled an interactive workbook that will help you tame anxiety, worry and depression. Backed with science and over 25 years of clinical experience, this easy-to-use guide is full of practical, proven worksheets, self-monitoring forms, exercises and scripts for you to start changing your habits, and start changing your life.
Digital Seminar - Preventing Childhood Anxiety and Depression: How to Expand Our Paradigm
Building a Trauma Informed Classroom
Given the increasing rates of child and adolescent anxiety and depression, it’s clear our current treatment paradigm isn’t working to proactively reach the young people who need help. It’s time we put an end to misinformed accommodations that only strengthen patterns of anxiety. Discover cutting-edge programs that get upstream of the problem, targeting parents and other important adults as key to mitigating and preventing childhood anxiety. Also, explore family systems approaches that teach both adults and children concrete skills to interrupt generational patterns of anxiety, depression, and emotional (mis)management.
Live Webinar - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders
Thank You Mind
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.

You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
Digital Seminar - Biofeedback & Mind-Body Training Tools for Anxiety, ADHD, PTSD and Depression: Enhance Your Clinical Skills
Calm and Peaceful Mindful Me
Biofeedback is proven to help change by obtaining information about a person's physiology and puts the power in the hands of clients. Why would you include this in your practice? You gain a way to work with the client other than talk therapy only - and biofeedback is especially effective with clients that are stuck, or have worked with multiple therapists without success.

Join long-term psychotherapist and biofeedback expert Angelika Sadar, M.A., and participate in hands-on learning, demonstrations and leave with the skills to add integrate biofeedback into your practice.

Topic: Anxiety/Depression

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