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291 -Transtheoretical and Transdiagnostic Approaches to Recovery | Journey to Recovery 2nd Edition

FromCounselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes


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291 -Transtheoretical and Transdiagnostic Approaches to Recovery | Journey to Recovery 2nd Edition

FromCounselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Aug 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This podcast episode is based on Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Recovery from Mental Health and Addiction Issues by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Read it for free on Amazon Kindle Unlimited.
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs
Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox & Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery
Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) & Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery (2017)
To get on the pre-release list for Journey to Recovery 2nd Edition and a 50% discount on the digital version, please email support@allceus.com. Publication is expected at the end of October.
Objectives
~ Identify the common symptoms for anxiety and depression-based disorders
~ Learn how a positive change in one area or symptom can have positive effects on all symptoms or areas.
~ Explore
~ The function of each of those symptoms
~ The potential causes of each of those symptoms
~ Interventions for each of those symptoms
Review
~ Everything you feel, sense, think and do is caused by communication between your nerves with the help of chemical messengers called neurotransmitters.
~ “Higher order” thinking is able to over-ride sensory input and tell us there is a threat when none exists, or that there isn’t a threat when there really is.
~ Think of your brain as a computer processor. It simply does what it is told, based on the information that it has.
What are symptoms
~ Symptoms are your physical and emotional reactions to a threat.
~ Symptoms are designed to protect you.
~ They are not bad or good. They just are.
~ Instead of trying to make the symptom go away, it may help to:
~ Understand the function of them
~ Identify alternate, more helpful, ways to deal with the threat
Transtheoretical and Transdiagnostic
~ Transtheoretical means approaching a person’s presenting issues/symptoms and considering emotional, cognitive, physical, interpersonal and environmental explanations for it.
~ Transdiagnostic means that many symptoms are common to multiple issues such as sleep changes, appetite changes, irritability, fatigue and lack of pleasure.
~ By examining the WHOLE person and not getting stuck on treating a particular diagnosis we are freed up to really address the individual’s issues
Case
~ Sally is a 27 year old mother of 2 and presenting with
~ Lack of pleasure/apathy “blah”
~ Fatigue
~ Irritability
~ Weight gain
~ Sleeping difficulties (waking up a lot)
~ Feelings of guilt
~ Inability to concentrate and indecisiveness
~ Diagnosis Possibilities (some)
~ Depression
~ Anxiety
~ PTSD
~ PCOS
~ Hypothyroid
~ “Stress” (relationship or job)
Lack of Pleasure
~ Form/Symptom
~ Lack of pleasure in most things, most days for a period of at least 2 weeks.
~ Cause
~ Neurochemical imbalance (insufficient dopamine, norepinephrine?) caused by:
~ Lack of sleep
~ Excessive stress
~ Drug or medication use
~ Hormone imbalances including thyroid problems
Lack of Pleasure
~ Causes
~ HPA-Axis
~ Cortisol
~ Increased norepinepherine and glutamate
~ Reductions in
~ Estrogen
~ Testosterone
~ Serotonin
~ Increased anxiety and depression
~ Reduced melatonin
~ Impaired sleep
Lack of Pleasure
~ Function
~ This is your body's way of
~ Signaling that there may be a problem
~ Conserving excitatory neurotransmitters for a “real” crisis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182008/pdf/DialoguesClinNeurosci-13-263.pdf Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma
~ Forcing you to address it. After all, nobody wants to be depressed for very long.
Lack of Pleasure
~ How You Cope
~ Think back ove
Released:
Aug 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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