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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety

Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D. has practiced as a licensed psychologist for more than 30 years. Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D. has received formal training in cognitive and dialectic behavioral therapy and has experience treating anxiety disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is one of the most popular therapeutic interventions for anxiety. Studies show that it can be effective in as few as eight sessions, with or without medication. It works by helping clients explore the negative thoughts that lead to their anxiety and replace these thoughts with others that are more adaptive. A CBT intervention starts with the forging of a trusting collaborative relationship between client and therapist. The therapist helps the client to identify the thoughts, feelings, and situations associated with his or her anxiety. The therapist then guides the client in identifying those specific negative thought patterns that lead to maladaptive anxious thinking and behavior. Once the client has named the thoughts that drive the anxiety, the client moves on to the process of learning to challenge those thoughts. This process includes reality testing of the negative thoughts and analyzing elements of one's self-concept that contribute to anxious thinking. The client also learns to test the likelihood of negative predictions coming true, and the seriousness of potential negative outcomes. Clients who have become comfortable with this process can then begin to replace negative distorted or unrealistic thoughts with more accurate and truthful ones. At this stage, the therapist may work with the client by introducing anxiety-provoking situations, often simultaneously introducing relaxation techniques that can make the thought replacement process easier to access in the moment. This process is a collaborative one requiring a strong relationship between client and therapist. It also involves a fair amount of client “homework,” as the client must practice thought-challenging and replacement outside of sessions, but the reward can be long-term relief of previously debilitating anxiety symptoms.

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Dissertation Sweepstakes

Dissertation topic #6981: How social media reflects an increasing pattern of mob mentality, flat effect, and related behavioral manifestations, and how that relates to the rise in cases of clinical depression as presented in Erikson's stage of adolescence.

Goal is to decipher if modern means of connectivity has significant negative social and behavioral outcomes, requiring reformation of psychological approaches to treat adolescents.

Focus on Myspace, Livejournal, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr with keypoints in the nature of social relationships and attitudes presented in each in regard to the means of how each is used. 

Subtopics include Group dynamics, memory, exteroception in relation to depth of experience, and long-term cognitive and behavioral transformation.

Dissertations are so snobby.

That's why I'll probably never write one.

I do, however, write research papers for aspiring college cheaters and underachievers at a reasonable cost.  I call it tutoring.  Hit me up for that A that will keep your scholarship and your trust fund firmly in place.

Seriously.