Social Anxiety: The Untold Story

$36.00

This DVD set will go beyond the theoretical context and provide viewers with a functional understanding of the population. It will teach a step-by-step treatment methodology including analytical, behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and family dynamics. Follow along with these real-life client demonstrations.

It is estimated that 1 in 8 people suffer from social anxiety. It is a universal problem that affects people of all ages, genders, cultures, religions and socioeconomic strata. Social anxiety includes an extremely broad spectrum of symptoms: from specific performance anxiety to pervasive social handicaps. It is often a debilitating illness that can lead to a life of isolation, anguish and even suicide. Incredibly, most people and many mental health professionals lack a functional understanding of the disorder.. Plus, little effective protocol exists due to sufferers’ innate resistance to treatment.

Social Anxiety is an overwhelming and persistent fear of social or performance situations that can significantly and dramatically limit one’s ability to live a meaningful and productive life. It causes both emotional discomfort through obsessive worry and physical suffering that emanates from the core. These symptoms are always associated with human interaction and are performance based.

Social anxiety is the third most prevalent mental health disorder behind depression and substance abuse, and is substantially co-morbid. Current research demonstrates that very little productive clinical protocol exists. Social anxiety is a disease of resistance, which impacts millions of all ages and all cultures. It continues to evolve rapidly due to its dynamic core of “performance” within an increasingly competitive and technological society. Social anxiety has numerous manifestations including social phobia, public speaking anxiety, which is the world’s number 1 phobia, selective mutism, school phobia, performance anxiety in numerous venues such as work, performing arts, sports, and relationships, as well a technology over-dependence and social skills challenges. In addition there is a direct connection to such problems as “bullying” and positioning within the social “pecking order”, school violence, and image sickness Persons with Learning Disabilities and other special needs represent another group significantly impacted by Social Anxiety.

This film series was produced by the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety, Inc. Its ongoing mission is to educate mental health professionals and improve the lives of those affected by Social Anxiety. Please visit their website at www.akfsa.org.

OBJECTIVES

Create a functional understanding of the multi-dimensional character and energy of social anxiety
Differentiate core clinical work vs. technique
Identify the architecture of social anxiety: Function, Action, Thinking, Emotion and Personality Types
Explain “mind state” development for patients with and without “initiative” (for healing)
Demonstrate a clinical model for selective mutism as early intervention for social anxiety
Examine a systems treatment methodology for social anxiety

OUTLINE

Disc 1 – Andy’s Story: From Performance Anxiety to Suicide

Disc 2 – Avoidance, Detachment and Dependence

Disc 3 – The Personalities of Social Anxiety

Disc 4 – Creating The Ego-Graph

Disc 5 – Creating The High Performance Mind

Social phobia “cured”: (Audio interview – “Arthur”)
Strategies for building the “nurturing parent”, “adult”, and “natural child” mind states
Brain Health: The” hardware of the soul”
Self-regulation: (Video – Biofeedback Demonstration)
Alcohol insights: (Audio interview – “Sam” – DWI and social anxiety resolved)
The physiology of performance
The adrenaline control methodology
Creating a behavioral strategy
“Self-nurturing”: (Audio interview – “Richard”)
Journaling

Disc 6 – Resolving Anger, Shame, and Embarrassment

Variables for the therapeutic learning curve
The core issue: Repressed anger and rage
The “Sarnow” concept: The “reservoir” of repressed content
The “energy of rage”: (Audio interview – “Anonymous”)
Perfectionism and narcissism: (Audio interview – “Robert” – gifted salesman)
Bridging the intellectual to the emotional mind
Hyper-vigilance: (Audio interview – “Tom” – The “passion” of adrenaline)
Embarrassment-logic exercise
“Anger Under the Microscope” exercise
Anger and mind states
Masochism: Self-destructive personality
Core work: The relationship of the brain to physical symptoms

Disc 7 – Selective Mutism (Part 1)

The selective mutism profile: The layers of the disorder
Understanding selective mutism as a variation of O.C.D.
“Core” treatment vs. “bridging” technique
The selectively mute adult: (Video interview – “Mike”)
The selectively mute adult: (Audio interview – “Mike #2)
Treatment methodology for the SM adolescent: (Audio interview: Parents & Teen)
Treatment methodology for children: (Video interview – part 1: “Karla”)
Teaching a parenting treatment methodology

Disc 8 – Selective Mutism (Part 2)

Teaching a parenting treatment methodology for SM children (continued)
A non-enabling strategy
“Attachment” vs. delusion
The “freeze the moment” technique
“Processing” with the SM child: Challenging the “I don’t know disease”
“Processing” : (Audio interview – Parent and 7 year old)
3-step method for teaching emotional vocabulary
Using the bio-card: Intro to mind-body awareness for the SM child
Psycho-pharmacology: (Video interview – Matthew Lorber, M.D. – Pediatric Psychiatrist)
A methodology for school intervention

Disc 9 – Treating the Resistant Adult

Disc 10 – The Psycho-Pharmacology of Social Anxiety

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