Desirable Difficulties: Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Through Inhibitory Learning
Fear and anxiety are among the most common problems for which individuals seek psychological treatment. Although exposure therapy is highly effective for these conditions, many clients fail to benefit or experience relapse at some point after treatment. Cutting-edge models of exposure focus on an inhibitory learning theory of fear extinction, which points to specific techniques to optimize short- and long-term treatment gains. Collectively, inhibitory learning strategies emphasize distress tolerance, as opposed to habituation of distress; and introduce “desirable difficulties” into exposure b...Read morey challenging clients to learn that their feared situations are not dangerous. This workshop aims to help clinicians apply this model to optimize exposure therapy. The inhibitory learning model will be described, and then numerous practical strategies for optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure will be introduced and illustrated in detail using case descriptions and videos. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Explain how exposure therapy works via fear extinction.
- Understand how to avoid common missteps when implementing exposure.
- Design exposure therapy trials, which will allow the client to learn new non-threat ways of thinking about feared stimuli and the experience of anxiety itself.
Friday, June 03, 2022
09:00 AM EDT - 01:00 PM EDT
Register for this WebinarAbout the speaker
Jonathan Abramowitz, PhD
Agenda
9:00-10:05: Introduction
9:05-9:40: Understanding clinical anxiety and its treatment
9:40-10:15: Exposure therapy: How does it work?
10:15-10:35: Break
10:35-11:40: Clinical strategies for optimizing inhibitory learning:
- Framing exposure to disconfirm threat-based expectations / Expectancy Tracking
- Introducing variability into exposure
- Combining multiple fear cues
- Affect labeling
11:40-12:00: Break
12:00-12:55: Attentional focus
- Safety behaviors and exposure – Prevent or Permit?
- Reinstatement of safety learning
- Troubleshooting
12:55-1:00: Q&A
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CE Information - Earn 3.5 CE Credit Hours
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New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
New York Education Department Board for Licensed Psychoanalysts
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
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