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• Archive: Faculty:Sally Winston | Martin N. SeifDuration:1 Hour 56 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Mar 22, 2019 Description Manual - Treating the Reassurance Junkie (1 MB) 19 Pages Available after Purchase Outline Recognize covert and subtle compulsive reassurance seeking in a clinical setting.
• We will describe productive and unproductive reassurance types, including hidden, implicit, deduced and empty subtypes as well as checking compulsions.
• We will illustrate how reassurance junkies present in the clinical setting, often as “neurotic”, or with generalized anxiety, depression, low self-esteem or poor confidence, needy or dependent with case vignettes.Distinguish responses that reinforce obsessive worry from those that reduce it.
• We will show how reassurance can serve as negative reinforcement, driving the OCD cycle and maintaining obsessive worries.
• We will introduce a detailed classification system for reassurance traps, including Do No Harm, Always Do Right, Guarantees Forever and Banish All Doubts.