031: Live Session (Mark) — Agenda Setting Phase (Part 3)
In the early days of my career, I (Dr. Burns) would have assumed that Mark definitely wanted to change--after all, he'd been in a lot of pain for a long time, and he came to the session because he wan...
10 Apr 201731min
030: Live Session (Mark) — Empathy Phase (Part 2)
After reviewing Mark's scores on the Brief Mood Survey, the Empathy phase of the session unfolds. During this phase of the session, David and Jill will not try to help, rescue, or save Mark. They will...
3 Apr 201747min
029: Live Session (Mark) — Introduction & Testing Phase (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of podcasts that will feature live therapy. As you listen, you'll have the opportunity to peak behind closed doors to see how TEAM-CBT actually works in a real-world sett...
27 Mar 201730min
028: Scared Stiff — The Motivational Model (Part 6)
The key is bringing the patient's subconscious resistance to conscious awareness, and melting it away with paradoxical techniques. This is absolutely critical if you are hoping to see a complete elimi...
20 Mar 201746min
027: Scared Stiff — The Hidden Emotion Model (Part 5)
David reminds us about the differences between healthy fear and unhealthy, neurotic anxiety, or an anxiety "disorder" like a phobia, or OCD, and so forth. He explains that negative thoughts, and not e...
13 Mar 201726min
026: Scared Stiff — The Exposure Model (Part 4)
We begin by describing the three different deaths of the ego that are required for recovery from depression, anxiety, or a relationship conflict, respectively. For depression recovery often results fr...
6 Mar 201744min
025: Ask David — How do you handle a patient you don't like (or who bores you)?
David answers these questions: How do you deal with a patient (or friend) who is boring? How do you deal with a patient (or friend) you don't like? How do you get patients to do their psychotherapy ho...
27 Feb 201737min
024: Scared Stiff — The Cognitive Model (Part 3)
The cognitive model of anxiety is based on three powerful ideas: Anxiety always results from negative thought (NTs) that involve the prediction of danger. For example, if you have public speaking anx...
20 Feb 201751min
