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Exploring the Essential Features of “Margaret Wehrenberg – 25 Custom Treatment Techniques for Anxious and Depressed Clients – PESI”
Speaker: Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD
Format: Audio and Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Anxiety and depression are the most common of exhibiting symptoms and present a special challenge when they co-occur in the same client—which they often do. Caught in a mix of symptoms that affect their ability to respond to treatment, different clients require different approaches. Join national speaker and author, Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, as she identifies seven types of anxious and depressed clients and delivers over 25 custom treatment techniques you can use immediately.
Based on her extensive clinical experience and solid foundation in research, Dr. Wehrenberg will give you the tools to:
- Motivate the Low Energy Client
- Redirect the mental energy of the Hopeless Ruminator
- Calm the Panicky Depressive
- Introduce choice with the Worried and Exhausted
- Break the routines of the Quiet Avoider
- Teach balance to the High Energy and Depressed client
- Challenge the beliefs of the Highly Anxious
Clinicians will learn the hallmarks of these variations of co-morbid anxiety and depression and will be able to apply treatment approaches that really work to resolve them.
Speaker
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD, a licensed clinical psychologist, is the author of nine books on the treatment of anxiety and depression, including her most recent e-book, Pandemic Anxiety: Fear, Stress, and Loss in Traumatic Times (January, 2021), bestselling book, The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques (W.W. Norton, 2018), and You Can Handle It: 10 Steps to Shift Stress from Problem to Possibility (PESI, 2017). She has also written a book for the general public, The 10 Best Anxiety Busters.
An expert on the treatment of anxiety and depression, she also has extensive training and expertise in the neurobiology of psychological disorders. In addition to clinical work, she coaches business professionals on managing anxiety and has contributed articles for the Psychotherapy Networker magazine. She has produced Relaxation for Tension and Worry, audio soundtracks for breathing, muscle relaxation and imagery to use with anxious clients. Margaret blogs on depression for Psychology Today. Noted for humor, pragmatic treatment approaches, and her interactive teaching style, Dr. Wehrenberg is a sought-after speaker for conferences and trainings, consistently getting the highest ratings for her dynamic presentation and high-quality content. She is one of PESI’s most highly rated speakers and her evaluation from the most seasoned professionals often rank her training “as among the best I have ever attended.”
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.
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals
Outline
Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression
- Unique challenges
- Tips to enhance the therapeutic relationship
- Interactions of symptoms
- Assessment
- Types of anxious & depressed clients
Traits
Lifestyle
Customize approach for each type
25 Customized Treatment Strategies for each Type
- Low Energy & Depressed
Raise energy
Gets the train rolling
Use future energy
Change hopeless/helpless meta-cognitions - Hopeless Ruminators
Redirect & shift internal locus of control
Breakdown “I won’t”
Alter helpless explanatory style - Worried & Exhausted
Denial & choice
Examine values
Prevent burnout
Transfer worry & build brain circuitry - Panicky & Depressed
Predict, Prevent and prepare
Stop catastrophic thinking
Calming techniques
Analyze themes of depression over failures and guilt - Quiet Avoiders
Self-isolation reinforces depression
Control social anxiety
Change inner dialogue
Provide & practice new scripts
Unlearn fear & build positive experiences - High Energy & Depressed
Breakdown perfectionism and over-activity
Personal balance wheel
Accept alternate plans and outcomes - High Anxiety
Special attention to worry
Stop rumination
Contain worry
Effective cognitive tools
Objectives
- Identify 7 types of co-occurring anxiety and depression.
- Discuss how to avoid pitfalls in the therapeutic relationship common to comorbid anxiety and depression and engage productively with clients.
- Outline strategies to stop rumination and shift internal locus of control.
- Illustrate custom treatment methods for the various types of comorbid anxious and depressed clients.
- Develop cognitive skills to stop worry and prevent catastrophic thinking.
- Utilize the balance wheel to identify and select appropriate lifestyle changes.
- List several methods that improve energy in physical, emotional and behavioral patterns of depression and anxiety.
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