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Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD):
Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance
Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder
David Burns, MD
Earn 13 CE/CME Hours**
 The The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.
In this workshop, you’ll step behind closed doors to observe an actual therapy session with an individual struggling with severe social anxiety. The patient is an attractive and courageous mental health professional who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about. You’ll see how Dr. Burns and his co-therapist lead her on a journey from profound sadness and shame to joy and laughter.
This dramatic video is not a simulation but a real session that has been professionally filmed and produced in HD. Dr. Burns will stop the video at intervals and give you the chance to discuss and practice the techniques you just observed, such as Paradoxical Agenda Setting, the Interpersonal Downward Arrow, the Externalization of Voices, Acceptance Paradox, Hidden Emotion Technique, Survey Technique, and more.
On day 2, Dr. Burns will illustrate a wide variety of powerful Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used with dramatic results in both individual and group formats. These include the David Letterman Technique, Self-Disclosure, Flirting Training, Rejection Practice, the Feared Fantasy, Shame-Attacking Exercises, and more. Dr. Burns will also do a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD. Perhaps it will be you! We hope you can join us for this dynamic new workshop.
Overall Workshop Goal
This workshop is designed to help healthcare professionals diagnose and treat social anxiety disorders more effectively and efficiently using an evidence-based, broad-spectrum model that supports a wide variety of clinical interventions.
Learning Objectives
Workshop attendees will learn to apply David Burns’ powerful T.E.A.M. model of psychotherapy to:
• Assess each patient’s needs and problems quickly and accurately
• Generate powerful, patient-specific interventions that go far beyond traditional CBT or any other school of therapy
• Follow where the patient leads, and not the treatment manual
• Motivate resistant patients who don’t want to face their fears
• Integrate the motivational, cognitive, behavioral, and hidden emotion models in the treatment of SAD
• Utilize failures in the therapeutic relationship to identify and modify self-defeating schemas and belief systems
• Minimize relapses following initial recovery
• Describe important differences between the T.E.A.M. Therapy model and traditional CBT
Workshop Agenda
Day 1
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD): An Overview
• The many faces of SAD
• How to diagnose SAD and track therapeutic progress
• Co-morbidity: Depression, other anxiety disorders, substance abuse
• Medications: Do they help or hurt?
• Conceptualizing SAD: Shame vs. shyness
• Self-Defeating Beliefs and Schemas
• Interpersonal Exposure
o How our patients hypnotize us
• T.E.A.M Therapy vs. CBT
Interactive Video Training: “I’m only good for laughs.”
• Pre-Session Testing
• What Should You Do When the Patient Suddenly Shuts Down?
• Paradoxical Agenda-Setting
o Sources of Outcome Resistance
o Sources of Process Resistance
• What Should You Do When the Patient Feels Judged?
o Utilizing failures in the therapeutic alliance
o Schemas and self-defeating beliefs
o Interpersonal Downward Arrow: Psychoanalysis at warp speed
• Daily Mood Log and Recovery Circle for SAD: The Fine Points
• The Paradoxical Double Standard Technique
Lunch
Interactive Video Training (Continued)
• Externalization of Voices
• Feared Fantasy and Acceptance Paradox
• Therapeutic Use of Humor
o The concept of Laughing Enlightenment
• Survey Technique: Patient as Healer
o Fast, accurate assessment of change
o Assessing the quality of the therapy
DAY 2
TInterpersonal Exposure Techniques
• David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
Power Dynamics of Dating
Lunch -- Optional Presentation: “Real-World Exposure”
How to Paradox the Patient’s Resistance
• Women Should Love Me the Way I Am!
• I Shouldn’t Have to Play Games!
• A Case of Test Anxiety
Public Speaking Anxiety / SAD: Live Demonstration
• The T.E.A.M. Model in Action
Relapse Prevention Training for SAD
Adjourn
Who Should Attend
All mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, therapists, alcohol & drug counselors, employee assistance counselors, school counselors, youth workers, sexual abuse counselors, vocational rehabilitation consultants, social service co-ordinators, street workers, and crisis counselors who work directly with clients and are seeking practical, proven methods to enhance their therapeutic skills
Dates and Locations
For additional information, including specific workshop locations, please download the brochure for the specific location you would like to attend.
Download Brochure PDF -- Southern CA Locations
Download Brochure PDF -- Other Locations
Schedule and Workshop Cost
Workshop registration will open both days at 7:45 AM. The workshop will begin at 8:30 and end at 4:30 both days, with 15-minute breaks during morning and afternoon sessions. Lunch (on your own) will be from 12:00 noon -- 1:30 PM.
$279 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$299 Regular registration (on-site reg. is
$319 Onsite registration (space available)
Register by phone at 800-258-8411, or register online ($10 discount) on the Workshop Page
Workshop Aides
Workshop aides are expected to arrive early, and help out during the workshop with registration, logistics, book sales, similar tasks. In return they receive a substantial workshop discount. Generally, 4-5 aides are required per workshop, but this number can vary, depending on attendance and various other factors.
If you would like to be considered for one of the workshop aide positions and receive a tuition discount, please email staff@iahb.org. Let us know why you`d like to be an aide, and whether you`ve had any experience running or assisting with training events, or with on-site sales at such events.. We`ll request additional information when we contact you.
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