Description: Habits and addictions rarely shift through willpower alone. In this engaging conversation, Burns and Zeig compare contrasting but complementary approaches, from paradoxical strategies that expose resistance to experiential methods that build motivation and identity change. Through stories, demonstrations, and clinical wisdom, they explore procrastination, smoking, and other entrenched patterns, offering creative ways to unlock commitment and make change feel possible.
Syllabus Description: The mechanics of assessment and treatment planning for working with habits and addictions including relevant research findings.
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*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook. Burns popularized Aaron T. Beck's cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when his book became a best seller during the 1980s.
Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in twelve foreign languages. Dr. Zeig is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona.