All-New Online Training Course from Behavioral Tech: Foundations of Exposure Therapies

    SEATTLE, WA, May 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Exposure therapies are the most effective treatments for anxiety disorders--approximately 75 % of individuals who receive exposure therapy experience a significant improvement in anxiety. Yet only 28 % of mental health therapists have received training in exposure for PTSD, and only 12 % have received exposure training for other anxiety disorders.

Behavioral Tech's newest online training is intended to provide a broad foundation in the basics of exposure for clinicians who have no exposure training and want to treat specific anxiety disorders with exposure or use other treatments that include an exposure component (such as DBT).

This effective and powerful learning tool allows clinicians to use exposure in a simulated environment to treat 6 virtual clients at an airport, restaurant, mall, home, and even a motorcycle store! It teaches clinicians how to conduct exposure in a step-by-step, interactive fashion, providing feedback along the way.

This course includes:
4 interactive eBooks
49 videos
Dozens of supplemental resources.

By taking this training, clinicians can expand their practice by developing the foundational skills necessary to treat panic disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, OCD, compulsive hoarding, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and agoraphobia.

"Just like exposure therapy works for clients, exposure therapy works for therapists. So the more you do it, the easier it gets," says Michelle Craske, Director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Foundations of Exposure Therapies online training lets mental health therapists learn by doing.

If you knew there was an effective treatment for anxiety disorders, wouldn't you want to use it? You would. Read more at http://behavioraltech.org/ol/details_exp.cfm.

Founded by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, Behavioral Tech trains mental health care providers and treatment teams who work with complex and severely disordered populations to use compassionate and scientifically valid treatments and to implement and evaluate these treatments in their practice setting. Behavioral Tech develops and applies the most effective and efficient methods of training and provides a range of opportunities to learn state-of-the-art treatments to a competent level.

Behavioral Tech is the only company exclusively authorized to utilize and disseminate Dr. Linehan's materials for training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Due to this relationship with the treatment developer, Behavioral Tech always maintains and trains with the most current materials.

For further information about training in DBT, Dr. Marsha Linehan, or Behavioral Tech, LLC, please visit www.behavioraltech.org.

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