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WP-3 |
Cognitive Therapy for Anxiety Disorders |
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Name |
David M Clark |
Nationality |
UK |
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Title |
Professor |
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Affiliation |
Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London |
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Workshop type |
Pre-conference workshop:
Oct 9th and 10th, 2008 (two days,12hours) |
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Language |
English with
Chinese
translator |
Number of
trainees |
80-- |
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Abstract or brief
introduction of the workshop
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Anxiety disorders are common and disabling. This workshop illustrates the cognitive therapy approach to treating three different anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. For each disorder, a cognitive model is presented that focuses on the negative beliefs that characterize the disorder and the key processes (such as selective attention, safety behaviours, rumination, and memory biases) that maintain the beliefs. Specialized therapeutic procedures that have been developed to change the beliefs and maintaining processes are then described and illustrated with case material and videos of treatment sessions. The procedures include cognitive restructuring, imagery work, behavioural experiments, video feedback, imaginal reliving, narrative writing, and rescripting of early memories. Particular emphasis is placed on how to assess and formulate a case as well as on how to integrate the different techniques. Randomized controlled trials in several different countries have shown that all three treatment programmes are highly effective.
Goals: By the end of the workshop,
participants should be able to: 1) Identify
key processes in maintaining panic disorder,
social phobia and posttraumatic stress
disorder; 2) Develop an individual version
of the cognitive model with their patients,
and 3) Be able to identify and plan
appropriate therapeutic techniques for all
three disorders.
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CV of the trainer |
| David M Clark is Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and Director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at the Maudsley Hospital, London UK. He has an international reputation for his pioneering work on the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. With colleagues, he has developed new and effective cognitive therapy programmes for four different anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder and health anxiety. He is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (USA), Past President of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and Past President of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy. Awards include: the Research Excellence Award (Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies, USA), being voted a World Leader in Anxiety Disorders Research by members of the Anxiety Disorders of America Association (1998), and the Behaviour Research and Therapy Award (1997) for the most outstanding article ( ＾A Cognitive Approach to Panic￣) published in that journal since it¨s founding in 1962. |
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