About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Summarize the various causes of anxiety and what keeps clients in a perpetual, vicious cycles of avoidance and worry.
• Provide strategies for clients to let go of ‘safety behaviors,” and have increased confidence in their abilities to master and manage their feelings.
• Implement concrete treatment interventions that interrupt the vicious cycle of anxiety and avoidance behaviors.
• Implement problem-solving skills to decrease avoidance and anxiety.
• Apply controlled breathing visualization and progressive muscle relaxation techniques proven to be useful in treating anxiety.
• Summarize methods to challenge cognitive distortions as they related to anxiety.
• Summarize COVID 19’s link to increased mental illness.
• Identify and re-direct client attention to understanding anxiety instead of “beating themselves up for" being anxious about their anxiety.

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Target Audience

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Ellen Blaufox

  Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been a professional speaker and trainer for mental health professionals for almost three decades. She has trained mental health professionals in a variety of social service agencies, higher education institutions (NYU, Adelphi, Stony Brook, Rutgers), and private organizations providing continuing education . As an Adjunct Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work on the Westchester Campus, Ellen taught Diversity, Racism, Oppression & Privilege for multiple semesters. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Iona College where she taught Trauma in Film. In her clinical and supervisory work, Ellen was fortunate to be part of the development and implementation of myriad evidence-based, trauma treatment models.Clinical Director of the largest psychiatric treatment facility for adolescents in New York State for almost ten years, her Senior Leadership role, lead to the creation of a specialized unit for adolescent survivors or human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Ellen's clinical and supervisory work has contributed to the research, and development of various, remarkable, innovative & helpful treatment models including Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) for Residential Populations, LGBTQ + and survivors of Human Trafficking. In addition Additionally, Ellen was a Core Team member at the Jewish Board that worked with Dr. Sandra Bloom in the adaptation and implementation of the Sanctuary Model from adult (SELF) to adolescent (SAGE) populations. Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been trained (and trains others in) such evidenced-based practices as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Ellen believes that a therapeutic relationship that ensures safety, open communication and transparency, as well as hope and optimism are the proven key ingredients in patient satisfaction and successful prognosis.

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