All adults experience healthy worry at times—anxiety often serves as a useful signal to pay attention to a situation. But for some clients, worry screams in their heads nonstop, like a boombox with no "off" switch. This workshop will explore the workings of worry and offer a range of effective techniques to help your anxious clients. You'll learn how worry ignores positive data, squeezes out corrective information, and gives rise to erroneous beliefs, and how to distinguish between helpful worry and intrusive worry. You'll gain a comprehensive set of research-based treatment strategies for general anxiety disorder (GAD), along with an understanding of the physiological, cognitive, and behavioral benefits of each one. With these tools, you'll be able to help clients face and overcome the worries of GAD, rather than just avoid them. (This session will continue with Workshop 329.)