Session #: 719-325
Presenter(s): Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D.
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min. Event: 2009 Networker Annual Symposium Date: March 26-29, 2009
Social anxiety may be the most difficult anxiety disorder to treat because these clients not only feel higher degrees of anxiety, but are frequently unmotivated to change. Achievements or social interactions just aren't compelling to many with social anxiety. By exploring how to enhance motivation and couple encouragement with fear reduction, you'll learn to help clients reduce their social anxiety and feel more confident. We'll review the latest research showing how motivation varies from individual to individual and discuss how to apply effective strategies to enhance people's desire to change. We'll explore a systematic treatment plan that weaves motivational work with titrated amounts of exposure, which is effective in the socially anxious from childhood to adulthood. You'll leave with a clear sense of how to promote treatment compliance and help your clients recover more fully from social anxiety.
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