Mindfulness, Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

1.5 Continuing Education Hours

Lobsang Rapgay, PhD

• Overview of Workshop:
  Dr. Rapgay will introduce the group to key components of classical mindfulness and its impact on and interaction with attention, an important facet of the hypnotic experience.
  
  The more mindful an individual is, using the classical methods, the more focused that individual’s attention and awareness becomes and the better that individual’s ability to deepen the hypnotic experience. Consciously learning this skill promotes the deepening of the hypnotic state
  
  Dr. Rapgay will describe how mindfulness and the deepening of the trance state can be used to treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder and how it can be learned as a skill in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
  

• Objectives of Workshop:
  • Attendees will be introduced to key concepts and techniques of classical Tibetan Buddhist mindfulness, rather than the more modernized, secular versions.
  
  • Attendees will gain an understanding of the ways in which mindfulness, and its applications to hypnosis, can be used with cognitive behavioral therapy to treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
  

• About the Presenter:
  Lobsang Rapgay, PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Director, UCLA Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Program, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. He is also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and has written several books on Tibetan healing, including Health for Life (Healing Series), May 1998.

  Dr. Rapgay is interested in clinical behavioral medicine, which focuses on the assessment and treatment of chronic psychophysiological disorders and psychiatric symptoms. His current assessment strategy involves a 90-minute behavioral-medicine-based clinical interview, testing using the MBMD, and a psychophysiological assessment using EMG, GSR, thermal, respiration and heart rate biofeedback. The assessment involves 1) communication responsiveness, 2) assessing primary and secondary medical symptoms, 3) primary and secondary psychiatric symptoms, 4) coping styles and strategies, 5) disease specific stress moderators, 6) ego assets, 7) negative health habits, 8) motivation to change, 9) treatment issues, 10) obstacles to treatment goal, and 11) treatment plan. The Behavioral Medicine Clinic is exploring more effective ways to utilize the above information based on the assessment to enhance treatment efficacy. The Clinic staff is currently exploring the NIMH guideline for Clinical Behavioral Medicine by using the assessment information to identify (1) an immediate target for treatment, (2) the goal, (3) a treatment plan, and (4) specific interventions that are appropriate for the target, as well as the individual.

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  Member: $40

  Non-Member: $45

  Student: $35

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