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Margaret Wehrenberg  – The Anxious BrainAbout authorMargaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D., has been in private practice as an addictions counselor and a psychologist for more than 20 years. She is the author of the forthcoming W.W. Norton book The Anxious Brain: The Neurobiological Basis of Anxiety Disorders and How to Effectively Treat Them.Product InfoDramatically increase your effectiveness in treating panic, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety by understanding the neurobiology of anxiety and how to link it with specific interventions.Sharpen the focus of your treatment of clients with anxiety disorders by learning the underlying neurobiological causes of anxiety symptoms.What’s Covered in The Anxious Brain:•How to select the treatment methods that will give your clients the fastest symptom relief.•Concrete guide to the underlying brain structures and functional problems that cause the different types of anxiety symptoms.•Specific strategies to change physiology and behavior for symptom relief.•How psychotherapy works to calm the anxious brain.Session 1:•The basics of the panicky brain•Structures and neurobiological factorsSession 2:•Techniques for managing physiological arousal in panic and acute anxiety•Helping a client who is anxious while in sessionSession 3:•The basics of brain structure and function in creating generalized anxiety disorderSession 4:•Techniques to manage cognitive problems of GAD, especially aspects of ruminationSession 5:•The neurobiological basis of social anxiety and anxiety sensitivity•How to prevent the sensitive child from developing social anxietySession 6:•The most effective approach for changing the avoidant behaviors of social anxiety•The lessons from panic and GAD that support behavioral change in social anxietyProduct Page:http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/cecourses/audio-course…