Anxiety + Depression: Recognizing & Treating Common Co-Occurring Conditions

The clinician’s challenge is to discern the co-morbidity since symptom presentations can be similar in both anxiety and depression. Further complicating matters is the fact that depression can lower energy to complete treatment recommendations and block effective starts in treatment.

Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg will use her clinical experience and foundation in neurobiological causes of anxiety and depression to identify different client presentations. These seven types of combined anxiety and depression presentations are:

• The Low Energy Client whose anxiety interferes with depression.
• The Hopeless Ruminator, whose depression makes it too difficult to energize.
• The Panicky and Depressed person who needs to take charge of anxiety.
• The Worried and Exhausted client who must address burnout.
• The Quiet Avoider whose social anxiety promotes isolation and depression.
• The High Energy Anxious and Depressed client whose energy masks depression.
• The High Anxiety client who can use anxious energy for depression recovery.

Through interactive activities and lecture, you’ll learn how to immediately use methods to enable your clients to thrive in recovery.

By the end of this training, attendees will be better able to —

• Utilize assessment tools to clarify symptoms to effectively diagnosis co-morbidity of anxiety and depression that will set the stage to ‘jump-start’  psychotherapy.
• Communicate the efficacy of psychotherapy for positive brain change to improve clients compliance with treatment methods
• Apply appraisal of temperament, locus of control, introversion/extraversion as well as DSM-V symptom evaluation to clients’ presentations of symptoms.
• Establish treatment protocols for 7 types of co-occurring anxiety plus depression
• Promote faster improvement in symptoms for Low Energy Clients by addressing cognitions
• Increase the mental and physical energy of the Hopeless Ruminator
• Apply panic management protocols that will also relieve depressive symptoms 
• Utilize protocols for burnout that promote recovery from anxiety and depression
• Recruit executive functions to positively challenge ruminative thinking
•  Utilize the ‘3 C’s’ to enhance social success for the Quiet Avoider
• Recognize and resolve the impact of trauma on High Energy Anxious and Depressed clients
• Access and utilize the energy of the High Anxiety client to get quick remission of depression

Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist. She has authored 8 books on anxiety and depression treatment, including her best-selling The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.

In addition to being an expert on anxiety and depression treatment, Margaret has extensive expertise in the neurobiology of psychological disorders. She coaches business professionals on managing anxiety and contributes articles for The Psychotherapy Networker magazine and blogs on depression for Psychology Today. Margaret has also produced audio soundtracks for breathing, muscle relaxation and imagery, which are available on her website.

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This training offers 6 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

Attendees of the live broadcast will receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation after the course is finished.

Attendees of the on-demand recorded version will need to complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a pass of at least 80% in order to verify attendance and then receive their Certificate of Participation. On-demand attendees will receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation once they have successfully passed the Post-Webinar Quiz at the completion of the webinar.

The Certificate of Participation includes:

• Name of participant.
• Title of training.
• Name of presenter plus their credentials.
• Number of hours of training.
• Date of training.
• Confirmation that showed 100% attendance at the live broadcast or passed a quiz with at least an 80% grade to verify attendance of the on-demand recording.

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