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AGENDA

8:30am to 4:00pm

830am-1230pm
The Therapists’ Toolkit: Conducting Effective Exposure Therapy
Presenter-Dr. Randy Paterson, PhD RPsych (Changeways)

1230pm-130pm
Lunch with Motion

130pm-400pm
Employment Solutions & Accommodations
(Neil Squire Society)

Business Practices & Professional Accountability: Billing practices, the referral process professional obligations in the third party payer system.
(Kathy Corbett, CEO & Registrar, COTBC)

CAOT-BC Member $150; Student Member $99; Non-Member: $200

Registration includes refreshments and lunch

Free parking available on site

The Therapists’ Toolkit: Conducting Effective Exposure Therapy

The emotions function as a behavioural guidance system. The message of fear and anxiety is “Avoid!” Unfortunately, in the anxiety disorders avoidance tends to perpetuate and magnify the problem. A central element of treatment for most anxiety-related problems is to identify the feared object, thought, or memory, and move toward it. This produces habituation - a reduction in present-focussed anxiety when there is no present danger. The mechanism for reducing anxiety in this way is graduated exposure. This workshop provides explicit guidance on how to conduct exposure-based treatments for anxiety. The goal is to help clinicians become more confident, capable, and knowledgeable using these powerful techniques.  The session will cover:

• The nature and function of fear and anxiety
• The theory of exposure and habituation
• Identifying the REAL fear
• Assessing beliefs about the object of fear
• Why don’t chance exposures help?
• The “three zones model” for explaining exposure
• The generalization gradient
• Reducing client reluctance by bracketing exposure intensity
• The importance of extended exposure
• Setting the anxiety tolerance
• Introducing and using Subjective Units of Distress (SUDs)
• How to develop a useful exposure hierarchy
• The importance of defining finish lines
• Combining exposure and behavioural experiments
• Exposure and response prevention in OCD
• An introduction to interoceptive exposure strategies

And  a discussion of the application of these strategies with anxiety disorders, including:

• Social phobia
• Specific phobias (flying, heights, animals)
• Panic disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Post traumatic stress
• Obsessive compulsive disorder

Learning objectives:
•  Understand the rationale behind exposure-based treatments
•  Be able to lead clients through the “three zones” exercise
•  Be able to offer a clear rationale for the exposure sequence
•  Be able to use Subjective Units of Distress to guide exercises
•  Know how to create, sort, and implement an exposure hierarchy

LOCATION: Motion Specialties, 101-8255 North Fraser Way, Burnaby, BC