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Health Anxiety

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An ache, pain, or fever can throw your health-anxious client over the edge… And researching symptoms on the internet often doesn’t help, in fact it has the opposite affect… Is this COVID? Cancer? Something else entirely? You need the proper skillset and tools be able to help clients discern the difference between a sensation and something that may be a symptom of a larger illness.

In this recorded session, Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C will give you the essential information to diagnose health anxiety with or without physical symptoms, as well as help you to develop exposures that will help your clients change their relationship with this fear.

Here's What You'll Learn


  • What is Illness Anxiety Disorder? How prevalent is it and how is it defined?
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder and Somatic Symptom Disorder: How are they different and how does this change your approach to treatment?
  • Helping clients create boundaries regarding doctor visits and researching illnesses
  • How the appropriate mindset can help clients face new health symptoms
  • Developing exposures to change your client’s relationship with their illness fears
  • Making your health-anxiety treatment more mindful and integrating acceptance

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts


Kimberly J Morrow, LCSW

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Kimberly Morrow, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in Erie, PA. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a master’s in social work. Kimberly has been specializing in treating people with anxiety and OCD for over 35 years and teaching other professionals how to treat anxiety for over 20 years.

Kimberly is a graduate of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Institute. She is a former board member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation of Pennsylvania and an active member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, having served on many committees. She is the 2012 recipient of the Clinician Outreach Award and the 2015 Member of Distinction Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She is the author of Face It and Feel It: 10 Simple But Not Easy Ways to Live Well With Anxiety and co-author of CBT for Anxiety: A Skills Training Manual for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry, and OCD. Kimberly is the co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com, an online platform to provide anxiety training and case consultation to clinicians and school staff.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kimberly Morrow is the co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as an author with PESI Publishing. Kimberly Morrow receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kimberly Morrow is a member of the International Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, and Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

Elizabeth Dupont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C

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Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, MSW, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker and board approved supervisor. Trained as a cognitive behavioral therapist using exposure and response prevention for anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression, she has been in private practice for 25 years, working with children, adolescents and adults. Elizabeth is a member of the International Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (IOCDF), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. (ADAA). She is a Clinical Fellow of the ADAA and also received the 2012 Clinician Outreach Award and the 2017 Clinician of Distinction Award. Elizabeth is co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com with a mission to train clinicians in evidence-based treatments. A graduate of Columbia University in New York City, and the University of Maryland at Baltimore’s School of Social Work, she completed her clinical training at the National Institutes of Health and the Catholic University of America. She is the co-author of three books, The Anxiety Cure (2nd Ed., Wiley, 2003), The Anxiety Cure for Kids (2nd Ed., Wiley, 2014), and CBT for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Training Manual for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry, and OCD (PESI, 2018). Elizabeth works in Rockville, Maryland.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth DuPont Spencer maintains a private practice and is co-owner of AnxietyTraining.com, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Elizabeth DuPont Spencer receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Dupont Spencer is a member of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. International Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, and the National Association of Social Workers.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059202
Duration:
1 hour, 31 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 01, 2022
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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