Managing Acute Anxiety
Psychotherapist and author Luana Marques talked about how to manage acute anxiety. The Brooklyn Heights Library hosted this event.
Description
In a conversation with former ABC News journalist Dan Harris, psychotherapist and author Luana Marques talked about how to manage acute anxiety. The Brooklyn Heights Library hosted this event.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- According to Dan Harris, what types of things can cause acute anxiety and panic?
- What is the "most important thing" to learn about anxiety? Explain.
- Based on the clip, does anxiety 'work?' Why or why not?
- List the "three skills" used in cases of acute anxiety.
- What is "opposite action" and how can it be used?
- Define and explain the skill of "shift."
- How do we turn on our "thinking brain," and what is the effect on anxiety?
- Does "hugging yourself" have an impact on anxiety? Summarize Luana Marques' comments.
- What does it mean to "number" your anxiety, and how does this engage the prefrontal cortex?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Acute
- Amygdala
- Anxiety
- Anxious
- Data
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Monolithic
- Panic
- Paranoia
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Shrink