David Burns – Feeling Great: A New High-Speed Treatment for Depression
Description
Watch David Burns, MD, anxiety and depression expert and author of the NY Times Best-seller Feeling Good, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide.
Research indicates that most, if not all, current treatments for depression and anxiety are barely more effective than placebos. In most studies, fewer than half of patients experience even a 50% reduction in depression after treatment. Research also suggests that therapeutic failure nearly always results from patient resistance that hasn’t been skillfully addressed.
Now in this all-new training based on his latest book Feeling Great, Dr. Burns dives deep into why clients seem to cling to feelings of depression and worthlessness and how to tackle the distorted thoughts and feelings that trigger their depression.
You’ll learn about two different kinds of resistance that can exist within clients that hinder treatment, and how to quickly eliminate resistance and open the door to ultra-rapid recovery.
Prepare to explore a revolutionary, paradoxical, and exciting new treatment based on the premise that depression and anxiety do not result from what’s wrong with you, but from what’s right with you!
Discover how to:
Accurately track changes in symptoms from the start to the end of every session
Accurately track therapist empathy at every session
Avoid the “reverse hypnosis” that sabotages treatment
Distinguish between Outcome and Process Resistance, the two roadblocks to successful therapy
Use the elements of the TEAM—T = testing, E = empathy, A = Assessment of resistance and M = Methods—to bring about high-speed change
Quickly melt away client resistance
Crush the negative thoughts that cause depression and anxiety
Conquer your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt and leave the workshop feeling great!
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a master of rapid recovery approaches for depression!
Handouts
Manual – Feeling Great (1.7 MB)
67 Pages
Available after Purchase
Outline
First segment: Resistance Revisited
Why does therapy fail?
What is TEAM Therapy?
The eight most common forms of resistance
depression
anxiety
relationship problems
habits and addictions
What happens when you ignore resistance?
What happens when you address resistance?
Second segment: The Anatomy of a Miracle
Karen tells her story: “I’m a failure as a mother.”
video clips illustrating symptom severity at the start and end of the session
How to melt away resistance
Invitation
Magic Button
Positive Reframing
Pivot Question
Magic Dial
Third Segment: How to Trigger Rapid Change at the Gut Level
How to crush negative thoughts
Video clips illustrating
Explain the distortions
Externalization of Voices
Self-Defense vs. Acceptance Paradox
Survey Technique
Your questions
Were these changes real?
Will they last?
Is rapid recovery rare?
Fourth Segment: Healing yourself
The negative thoughts of therapists
Positive Reframing
Externalization of Voices
Self-Defense Paradigm
Acceptance Paradox
Counter-Attack Technique (CAT)
Live demonstration with audience volunteers
Fifth Segment: Process Resistance
How to address process resistance for depression
Dangling the Carrot
Gentle Ultimatum
Sitting with Open Hands
Fallback position
Live demonstration with two audience volunteers
Questions:
What to do when the patient says “I’ll try”
What to do when your patient “fails” / “forgets” to do psychotherapy homework
Therapist resistance
Sixth Segment
Bibliotherapy: Does it really make a difference?
How to improve your clinical results
From Feeling Good to Feeling Great!
Q and A
Faculty
David Burns, M.D. Related seminars and products: 6
David D. Burns, M.D., is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His best-selling books, Feeling Good and the Feeling Good Handbook, have sold over five million copies worldwide. His latest book, Feeling Great, is now available on Amazon.com.
Although he was a pioneer in the development of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), in the past 10 years he has created a more powerful approach called TEAM-CBT. Individuals who attend this workshop will be eligible for Level 1 TEAM certification by the Feeling Good Institute in Mt. View, California.
More than 50,000 therapists have attended his training programs over the past 35 years. His website, www.feelinggood.com, offers many free resources for therapists and clients alike, including his tremendously popular Feeling Good Podcasts.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Burns receives royalties from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: David Burns has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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