The New Era of Anxiety: Helping Clients Navigate Stress, Fear, Loss & Grief During Turbulent Times

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Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD Related seminars and products

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Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist whose five decades of work in the mental health field have had a far-reaching impact on the understanding and treatment of anxiety. Her pioneering approach has influenced psychotherapists, business leaders, educators, elected officials, and legal professionals around the world. Dr. Wehrenberg was among the first to translate the emerging science of neurobiology into practical applications for psychotherapy, demonstrating how clinicians can “use the brain to change the brain” in the treatment of anxiety and depression.

 

Her twelve books have been translated into eight languages. The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques remains an international bestseller. Her newest book, Letting Go of the Work You Love (co-authored with Lynn Grodzki), is the first comprehensive retirement roadmap for healing professionals.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. She is an international presenter and receives compensation. Dr. Wehrenberg receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg is a member of the Anxiety Disorder Association of America.

Additional Info

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Apply skills to cope with the impact of ambient anxiety to effectively manage generalized anxiety.
2. Distinguish generalized anxiety from situational responses to societal turbulence to improve case conceptualization.
3. Construct useful protocols to eliminate panic and health anxiety.
4. Appraise the impact of disappointments on mood and differentiate that from depressive disorders.
5. Employ new concepts about the significance of rituals to minimize the impact of missed life events, important ceremonies and lost opportunities.
6. Devise strategies to cope with the new stresses of work-from-home parenting.
7. Determine the neurobiological stress of teletherapy and formulate ways to manage your energy.

Outline

• Limit how the “toxic fog” of bad news intensifies anxiety
• Relieve exposure to persistent worry that resulted in less productivity and low energy/ interest in the world
• Existential anxiety that emerges from threatening conditions

• “Worry Well and Only Once” to reduce fear
• “ Transfer Worry to Another Person” to shift attention
• “The 3 Control Questions” to address control
• “ Ditch Your Dread and Stop the Plunge” to avert despair
• “Predict, Prepare, and Plan” to prevent panic
• “ Relax Social Anxiety” and “Restore Prior Social Skills” to emerge from social isolation
• And more!

• Differentiate GAD from predictable worry, OCD or depressive rumination
• Techniques for extreme cautiousness and containing worry
• Coping strategies for emerging from isolation for clients of every age

• It’s not depression... It’s sadness, grief and loss
• Address the disappointment of missed opportunities and life events
• How to recreate ceremonies and rituals to heal grief and loss
• Differentiate anniversary reaction from depressed mood

• Correct for the blur of time due to loss of anchor points of schedules and routines
• Manage stress of uncertainty about others’ vaccination status as children re-enter school and extra-curricular activities
• Help parents cope with expectations due to virtual learning and working from home

• Zoom fatigue – It is real! Combat the neurobiological stress of processing video conferencing
• Healthy boundary setting to manage your level of energy
• What to do when you, the therapist, is feeling the same emotional stresses as your clients

Target Audience

• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals