Rape Crisis Training Institute: What Trauma Therapists Should Know About Panic, Phobia and OCD: A One Day Guide to Diagnosis and Integrative Treatment

Description

This workshop will present basic integrative treatment principles, with an emphasis on common clinical errors. It will address psychoeducation, breathing retraining, exposure and response prevention, and management of anticipatory anxiety, affect tolerance and relapse prevention. An exploration of the paradoxical nature of effort in dealing with anxiety, the double-edged swords of relaxation and safety behaviors, the significant dangers of interpretation of meaning in OCD, the distinction between flashbacks and panic attacks, and the distinctions between compulsions and re-enactments. The presentation will be geared to therapists who are very familiar with trauma states but not the other anxiety disorders.

Presenter:
Sally Winston, PsyD
Co-Director of The Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, LLP
Dr. Sally Winston is a nationally recognized expert in the integrative treatment of anxiety disorders. A graduate of the original University of Illinois Doctor of Psychology program in the mid 70s, she went on to found the innovative Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 1978, two years before the term Panic Disorder appeared in the DSM III. This later became the independent Anxiety Disorders Institute of Maryland, where she serves as codirector. She has acted as the chair of the clinical training and consumer education track for the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) annual conference for many years. She has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, participating in the first consensus conference on the treatment of panic disorder in 1991. She has lectured and consulted extensively throughout the USA, Canada, Thailand and South Africa. Her chapter in Lindemann's Handbook of the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders "Identifying and Treating Phobia in the Context of Trauma" 2nd Ed. (Jackson-Aronson, 1996) may be of interest. Her website is www.anxietyandstress.com.

Registration:
Registration materials are available in PDF and Microsoft Word formats.