33 Tips and Tools for the Anxiety Toolbox: Using CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and ACT

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Judith Belmont, MS Related seminars and products

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Judy Belmont, MS, is a retired psychotherapist who offers online mental health coaching. She is the author of PESI’s popular 4 book series, 86 TIPS for the Therapeutic Toolbox (Treatment Ideas & Practical Strategies), 103 Group Activities and TIPS, 127 More Amazing TIPS & Tools for the Therapeutic Toolbox, and 150 More Group Therapy Activities & TIPS, which offers practical, action-oriented strategies to help people develop healthy life skills. Judy is the author of The Group Therapy Deck and The Anxiety and Stress Solution Deck as well. She also co-authored the self-help book The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Judith Belmont receives royalties as an author for PESI Publishing and Media. She receives royalties as an author for New Harbinger and WW Norton. Ms. Belmont receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Judith Belmont has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Objectives

1. List simple and practical anxiety-reduction techniques to teach your client.
2. Identify trademark techniques from CBT, ACT, DBT and MBCT how they are effective in treating anxiety.
3. Prepare activities that your client can do between sessions to lessen anxiety and track progress.
4. Describe effective psycho-educational strategies that you can use immediately to help your client lower anxiety.
5. Prepare valuable handouts and worksheets to help your anxious client.

Outline

Effective Therapy for Anxiety

• Debunk myths about anxiety
• Distinguish between productive and unproductive worry
• Differentiate anxiety from fear
• Homework between sessions

CBT Strategies for Anxiety

• CBT log to change anxious thinking
• Self-defeating beliefs inventory sheet
• Hidden emotion technique
• Feared fantasy technique
• Exposure techniques
• Flooding activity
• Systematic desensitization
• Vertical arrow technique
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Developing a fear hierarchy

DBT Strategies

• Acronyms to help with anxiety
• Core mindfulness strategies that calm and heal
• Emotional regulation techniques
• Mindfulness tips
• Radical acceptance
• Distress tolerance techniques
• Daily logs

ACT Strategies

• Diffusion techniques
• Using metaphors to calm and soothe
• Acceptance strategies
• Floating leaves visualization
• Other ACT visualizations

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

• Calming the mind and the body
• Mindful walking
• Relaxation techniques
• Anxiety-busting activity for individuals and/or groups
• Construct an anxiety-reduction metaphorical toolkit

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