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XII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL y XVII


NACIONAL de PSICOLOGÍA CLÍNICA

SANTANDER (ESPAÑA), 13-16 de NOVIEMBRE, 2019
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Aribert Bauerfeind
Chairman of Sleep Medicine and somnology services, Swiss Epilepsy Center, Zürich
SUIZA


Aribert Bauerfeind is a clinical neurophysiologist specialized in sleep medicine. Mr. Bauerfeind is a board certified neurologist and psychiatrist and has been the head of the accredited sleep lab and sleep medical services at the Swiss Epilepsy Center for the past 15 years.  Fields of special interest are insomnia, nocturnal movement disorders and epilepsy. Mr. Bauerfeind is a lecturer in the graduate programm for the AVM-CH which offers a 8 semester curriculum for trainig psychologists and physicians in cognitive behavioral therapy. Mr. Bauerfeind has published in the fields of non-pharmacologic treatement of sleep disorders and insomnia therapy.



RESUMEN SIMPOSIO

Spectrum of anxiety and panic  disorders in clinical practice


In Arachnoidphobia, early intervention and brief treatment is most beneficial when combining the strategy of confrontation in vivo with coaching to accept fear with the primary goal of preventing avoidant behavior.

 

For management of anxious dental patients an assesment of the level of anxiety before treatment is crucial.  This is done using the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) with which treatment indication may be assessed.  The use in clinical practice, especially in short term therapy will be expanded on.

 

Nocturnal panic attacks are heterogeneous clinical entities. Similar signs may occur in epileptic events, specifically with motor phenomena. Video-EEG Monitoring with expert reporting is required when making diagnoses of exclusion.  Case studies will show video illustration.

 

A range of potentially anxiety inducing experiences in sleep or at the wake-sleep transition, are grouped as parasomnias. Should conditioning take place, psychophysiologic insomnia may result, CBT-on the background of a sound somnological workup.

We suggest these topics concerning anxiety and panic phenomena be drawn together in a platform that will form a symposium as a whole.