Course Description

Many clients underestimate their ability to cope with stressful situations, leading to excessive worry and anxiety. In this course, you’ll learn how to help clients deal with anxious, worried thoughts through the application of CBT techniques. Dr. Janeé Steele will also review specific diagnostic criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and illustrate the application of CBT strategies for each.

This course is 100% self-paced and includes 8 hours of on-demand content. You can start at any time and complete all modules all from the convenience of your home.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Define the risk/resource model of anxiety.
  2. Identify factors of anxiety including overestimating risk, underestimating one’s ability to cope, hypervigilance, anxiety about anxiety, avoidance, and safety behaviors.
  3. Formulate case conceptualizations and treatment plans specific to Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
  4. Teach clients to examine and restructure negative automatic thoughts, core beliefs, schemas, and maladaptive assumptions leading to anxiety.
  5. Teach clients to identify interoceptive and cognitive triggers.
  6. Teach clients emotional regulation and behavioral techniques to manage symptoms of anxiety.
  7. Teach clients to identify and replace maladaptive coping strategies.
  8. Increase distress tolerance through use of exposure exercises.
  9. Test anxious thoughts through use of behavioral experiments.

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Message From the Instructor

    • Learning Objectives
  • 2

    Overview of Anxiety

    • The Risk/Resource Model

    • Factors of Anxiety
  • 3

    Cognitive Restructuring

    • Identifying Beliefs About Anxiety

    • Monitoring Anxious Thoughts

    • Decatastrophizing Fears

    • Developing Alternative Thoughts
  • 4

    Managing Symptoms of Anxiety

    • Identifying Triggers

    • Monitoring Physiological Reactions

    • Regulating Emotion With Relaxation and Mindfulness Techniques

    • Creating an Anxiety Profile

    • Testing Anxious Thoughts With Behavioral Experiments

    • Increasing Distress Tolerance With Exposure Exercises
  • 5

    Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    • Diagnostic Criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    • The Cognitive Model of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    • Strategies for Decreasing Worry
  • 6

    Social Anxiety Disorder

    • Diagnostic Criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder

    • The Cognitive Model of Social Anxiety

    • Challenging Negative Beliefs That Characterize Social Anxiety

    • Creating a Social Situation Fear Hierarchy

    • Developing a Social Anxiety Graded Exposure List

    • Identifying Safety Behaviors

    • Role-Play and Social Skills Practice
  • 7

    Panic Disorder

    • Diagnostic Criteria for Panic Disorder

    • Clark’s Vicious Circle Model of Panic Disorder

    • Decatastrophizing Panic Symptoms

    • Interoceptive Exposure
  • 8

    Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    • Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    • The Cognitive Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    • Cognitive Restructuring

    • Creating an Obsession/Ritual Log

    • Developing a Hierarchy of Obsessions and Anxiety-Provoking Stimuli

    • Behavioral Experiments

    • Exposure

    • Relaxation and Mindfulness

    • Relapse Prevention

Pricing

Instructor

Janeé Steele

Dr. Janeé Steele is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Dr. Steele is also the owner and clinical director of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, where she provides therapy, supervision, and training in CBT. She is the author of the upcoming book, Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing, and the co-author of the upcoming book, Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity, both published through Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Her other scholarly activity includes peer-reviewed articles focused in the areas of CBT, social justice advocacy, and counselor training. Her most recent article, published in the May 2020 issue of the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling and Development, describes cognitive conceptualization and treatment planning using CBT and a proposed cognitive model of internalized racism.