With humor and compassion, Wilson masterfully engages a range of anxious clients suffering from panic, phobias, obsessions, and compulsions in his signature “paradoxical approach” to treating panic disorders, encouraging them to not only welcome, but invite their symptoms to increase when they feel them arise. Using various interventions, he shows his clients that it is their relationship to their symptoms, rather than the symptoms themselves, that makes them so intractable.
If you’re struggling using traditional approaches with clients who have panic or other anxiety disorders, let Wilson guide you in a radically different, counterintuitive and extremely effective approach, shown through this series in a host of lively ways.
By watching this series, you will:
- Learn the core concepts of Wilson’s approach to treating anxiety disorders.
- Understand how to conduct a highly focused assessment.
- Identify tools for helping clients increase their tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort.
Length of Series: 14:23:00
English subtitles available
R. Reid Wilson, PhD is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Wilson specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and is the author of
Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks (Harper Perennial, 1996),
Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks (Anxiety Disorders Association of America, 2003), and is co-author with Edna Foa of
Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Bantam, 2001). Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America for twelve years and was Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders from 1988-1991. In 2014 The Anxiety and Depression Association of America honored Wilson for a lifetime of service in treating anxiety disorders, awarding him the Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award at its annual conference in Chicago.
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