| Summary: | Improve the Quality of Mental Health Care. This video helps address the challenges many practitioners face in assimilating results from psychotherapy research into their treatment plans. It offers step-by-step guidance on how to create an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment plan for generalized anxiety disorder. In a viewer-friendly manner, Drs. Art Jongsma and Tim Bruce discuss the steps involved in psychotherapy treatment planning and how to integrate objectives and interventions into a treatment plan, as part of an overall evidence-based practice. A sample evidence-based treatment plan for generalized anxiety disorder is provided. The Companion Workbook contains an optional 20-question test that can be submitted for Continuing Education Credit. In this video, Drs. Jongsma and Bruce: Discuss the process and criteria for diagnosing generalized anxiety disorder. Describe the essential elements of psychotherapy treatment planning. Provide a brief history of efforts to identify empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for generalized anxiety disorder. Describe identified ESTs for generalized anxiety disorder. Demonstrate how to empirically inform a psychotherapy treatment plan with objectives and interventions consistent with those of identified ESTs for generalized anxiety disorder. Show and discuss role-played scenarios that demonstrate selected aspects of the ESTs. Discuss common considerations in relapse prevention and show how they can be integrated into a psychotherapy treatment plan.
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