CBT KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

CBT training from one of Canada's leading providers of intensive short courses.

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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Background:

Since its introduction in 1983, this course has introduced more people to cognitive therapy than any other in the UK. In recent years, cognitive therapy has become recognized as one of the most effective approaches to helping clients.

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The course covers:

•  What is CBT? History, defining characteristics, overview of the major CBT techniques.
  
•  Early experience and schemata. Triads: schemata which interact with each other to    produce depression, anxiety, etc.
  
•  Maladaptive rules. Assumptions and beliefs that work badly for people. What makes some    rules maladaptive?

•  ‘Critical incidents’: often small events that trigger a chain of unhelpful thinking.
  
•  Negative automatic thoughts. Especially, ‘hot thoughts’.
  
•  Talking to patients in ways that ‘chimes’ with them. Key phrases to use.
  
•  The first session or two: developing a relationship and completing an assessment.
  
•  Diary keeping. Good diary keeping is one of the truest cognitive behavioral techniques.    Why, and how to do it.
  
•  Video: the first session, the assessment and diary keeping.
  
•  Case conceptualization: making sense of ‘what is going on’.
  
•  A typical session-plan for CB therapy. The seven components to an effective session.
  
•  Using CBT informally, in everyday interactions.
  
•  Doing something different. In both depression and anxiety, behavior change is often    crucial to progress. And yet is it very difficult to achieve: patients persist in doing the same    things. We examine the successful strategies.
  
•  Cognitive re-structuring. Identifying hot thoughts and changing them, including using APT    forms for the purpose.
  
•  Socratic dialogue, including synthesizing questions.
  
•  Measuring progress. Available measures of depression and anxiety, including APT forms.
  
•  Teaching methods include: lecture, exercises, video examples, case studies and practice
   sessions.
  
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What this course will do for you:
  
•  You will have a ‘feel’ for CBT: you will know why it is so-called, how it has evolved and
   what techniques are CBT ones and why.
  
•  You will be introduced to the major cognitive, behavioral and cognitive-behavioural    techniques in a way that you can envisage using them, and have some practice in
   doing so.
  
•  You will be introduced to important forms for use after the course.


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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of $7,795 plus GST/HST.
 
Also available 'online' (via the web)

  

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