Intimate Connection Within Brain Systems Offers Insight for Anxiety Intervention
Neuroscience can now explain the connection between how emotions store in our bodies and the resulting distress that manifests as anxiety. This intimate connection within brain systems offers insight for anxiety intervention. By utilizing the competencies, skills, and construct of emotional intelligence (EI) to control, regulate, and manage emotions, the symptoms of anxiety can be addressed more deeply than by just correcting and applying rational thought.

In this webinar, Dr. Steffen reveals how to use "the best of the best" of EI to help clients improve their ability to relate to self and others, thus reducing their levels of anxiety. Her presentation emphasizes a life-style change brought about with EI, in which clients think, feel, behave, and believe differently about themselves and their choices in life.

Outline

UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS

• Differentiating feeling from emotion
• Brain function and processing emotions
• The thought-feeling-behavior paradigm and emotions

DEFINING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EI)

• Salovey and Mayer Model (Ability Model)
• K.V. Petrides (Trait Model)
• Goleman's Model (Mixed Model—EQ vs. IQ)
• The Bar-On Model (Emotion-Social Intelligence)

EXPLORING THE VARIOUS FORMS OF ANXIETY

• The DSM-5® approach to understanding anxiety
• Anxiety vs. panic
• Anxiety and Trauma

CREATING A STRATEGIC MODEL OF EI

• Defining a strategic approach
• Using "the best of the best" of EI
• Linking EI to understanding anxiety through assessment

THE RELATIONAL ASPECT OF A STRATEGIC EI MODEL

• The therapeutic relationship
• The client's relationship to self and anxiety
• The client's relationship to others and anxiety

OFFERING A LIFE-STYLE CHANGE THROUGH STRATEGICALLY USING EI

• Choosing to be healthy through developing emotional intelligence
• Positive psychology and emotional intelligence
• Maintaining a healthy life-style