Introduction
Date Course Created: July 2023
Anxiety, especially in its more chronic and unassuming forms, is a common thread that runs through the mental fabric of modern society. Lots of clients come to us wanting answers, wanting cures, or wanting permanent fixes, and we can feel pulled as clinicians to provide concrete solutions to our clients’ presenting concerns, especially when they are in the act of suffering.
Learn to use solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) integrated with mindfulness skills and techniques to effectively support and treat clients challenged with various forms of anxiety. Discover how this unique integrative skills-based approach can help clients manage unabated anxious thoughts and heightened somatic symptoms that trigger increased cortisol production. Help clients learn how to understand anxiety as a part of the human experience to be solution-managed, not “cured”, moving them toward a place where they can reduce the impact of anxiety on their daily living.Transform your clinical toolset with this unique anxiety management approach that will give you the confidence to effectively treat the growing epidemic of post covid anxiety.
In addition to the below Objectives, this training will also touch on and help learners accomplish the following:
- The brief history of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
- The difference between problem solving and solution building and how that moves clients toward treatment goals more efficiently in the treatment of anxiety.
- Define a client in SFBT; especially with regard to anxiety.
- Identify which interventions and questions fit in the three parts of the skeleton.
- Learn different approaches to mindfulness practices and how they can be integrated into the SFBT interventions.
- Name and describe “The trifecta” to learn this approach to decrease symptoms of anxiety.
This is a 2.5-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform.
Agenda
00:00 – 01:00 → Fundamentals of SFBT
01:00 – 02:00 → Effective Application of SFBT
02:00 – 02:40 → Impact of Anxiety; Interventions and Further Considerations
Objectives
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:
After completing this training, participants will be able to name the eight principles of SFBT.- After completing this training, participants will be able to describe and apply use of the three- part SFBT skeleton, combined with mindfulness techniques.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to identify three intentional interventions and questions that fit in the three-part SFBT skeleton and how mindfulness techniques strengthen these interventions.
Target Audience:
Clinical Mental Health Professionals such as Counselors, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS
Material Author(s): Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
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Delivery Method – This course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.
CE Approvals:
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
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Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 23, 2025 – July 23, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 2.5 clinical continuing education credits.
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