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About Dr. Dalton and His Practice
Dr. Dalton:
Dr. Dalton Graduated from George Washington University in 1984 and has been Licensed by the State of Maryland as a Psychologist since 1985 . At the end of
1985, Dr. Dalton completed his Post -Doctoral Fellowship with Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, at the University of Pennsylvania and moved back to Washington to open the Cogitative Therapy Center in Chevy Chase, MD.
Dr. Dalton is certified by the Academy
of Cognitive Therapy (Dr. Beck's accrediting organization) and is one of the
Academy's Founding Fellows.
Practice:
Dr. Dalton works with people in psychotherapy who are functioning well enough to benefit from
cognitive therapy's psycho-educational approach. Dr. Dalton finds Cognitive Therapy most effective in treating problems such as:
- Depression, generalized anxiety,
social anxiety, performance anxiety, phobias and especially
panic disorders.
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- Dysfunctional Personality Style Modification
Training
Perfectionist personality, avoidant personality, high demand-expectation persons, anger-aggression personality, passive personality, autonomous personality, hypochondriac personality, workaholic personality.
This therapy training provides patients the skills to be more functional at home, work and with themselves.
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Managing stressors related to work, relationships,
money, aging, legal problems, adult ADHD coaching, disability management, traffic, death, etc.
and using the CT method to replace maladaptive strategies for coping with
life's problems with more functional and adaptive behavior strategies.
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- Marital and Couples
Therapy: Using CT to address relationship problems.
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