This is a stand-alone course that can be taken by any practitioner as part of their continuous professional development (CPD).
It is also one of the modules within:
The 2-days cover issues of definition and relationship with agoraphobia, theories of Panic Disorder and a range of CBT interventions as they apply to this common debilitating problem which has produced success rates of between 80 and 90%.
Issues covered include:
- Definition of Panic Disorder
- Goldstein & Chambless classical conditioning model of panic disorder
- Clark’s cognitive theory of panic disorder
- The role cognitive misinterpretation of interoceptive experiences and psycho-educational approaches
- Corrective breathing exercises
- The role of graded exposure (interoceptive, imaginal and live)
- The role of behavioural experiments in challenging safety behaviours




