Feb 27, 2017

David answers these questions: How do you deal with a patient (or friend) who is boring? How do you deal with a patient (or friend) you don’t like? How do you get patients to do their psychotherapy homework?

1. How do you deal with a patient (or friend) who is boring? David describes a technique he learned from...

Feb 20, 2017

The cognitive model of anxiety is based on three powerful ideas:

1. Anxiety always results from negative thought (NTs) that involve the prediction of danger. For example, if you have public speaking anxiety, you are probably telling yourself something like this: “I just know I’m going to blow it. My voice will...

Feb 13, 2017

There are 4 powerful treatment models for anxiety, including

• The Cognitive Model
• The Exposure Model
• The Motivational Model
• The Hidden Emotion Model

Each approach has a completely different theory about the causes of anxiety and utilizes completely different treatment techniques. For example, cognitive therapists...

Feb 6, 2017

David and Fabrice answer these questions:

• What is anxiety?
• How does it differ from depression?
• Do anxiety and depression always go hand in hand?
• How does anxiety differ from healthy fear?
• What are the most common forms of anxiety?
• How common is anxiety?

Anxiety, like depression, has been called the world’s...