CBT Plus, with Depression.
'CBT Plus, with Depression' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is the only CBT for Depression training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of the Extended Training in CBT course, or The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses.
Executive Summary:
Depression is often referred to as "the common cold" of mental health - it is very common and we haven't always been very good at treating it. CBT's original application was with depression, NICE guidelines recommend CBT for depression and CBT is clearly one of the front-running interventions for depression. This module is designed to cover the relevant CBT techniques in a way that encourages you to use them subsequently and empowers you to help most people who are depressed.
What this course will do for you:
- You will know what depression is: its symptoms, causes and how it affects people.
- You will be familiar with the major CBT techniques for depression and how to apply them with your own patients.
- You will know how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy meshes with other helpful interventions for depression, and how to utilize that to the person's benefit.
The course covers:
- What is depression? Symptoms, causes and incidence. How to analyze symptoms and interventions by the 5 CBT factors.
- NICE guidelines on the treatment of depression, especially as they relate to psychological therapies.
- The measurement of depression. The best evidence of success comes directly from the patient. Questionnaire measures.
- Diary Keeping. A crucial CBT method, so we look at why this is, and examples of the best forms of diary keeping.
- Doing something different. If you are depressed, there's no point in carrying on doing the same things as you are right now, but changing established patterns of behavior is not as easy as it might seem.
- Enjoyable activities. One reason people don't do enjoyable things is that they don't know what they might enjoy.
- People who become trapped in lives that are unrewarding for them. How to help them to escape and restructure.
- Cognitive restructuring. The strongest purely cognitive intervention, we look at what it is and how to do it, including APT forms to help.
- Thoughts Diaries. We can do the same for people's thoughts and perceptions as we do for their behavior. This is how.
- Problem solving: where depression is the result of realistic problems then the best strategy is to resolve the problem rather change one's view. This is how.
- Social factors. Social factors are often important in depression, so we must know what problems often arise in this area and be able to address them effectively.
- Biological factors such as exercise, sleep, diet. NICE Guidelines and how to apply the recommended strategies.
- Drug therapies for depression. "The combination of antidepressants and individual CBT is more cost-effective than either treatment on its own." NICE.
- Risk Assessment - Suicide: 90% of successfully suicidal individuals seek professional help in the preceding year.
- Working with suicidal people. Being suicidal is different from being very depressed; how should we respond differently?
- Course Methods include lecture, discussion, video material, case analysis and practice exercises.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live*
Presentation: 92%
Relevance: 96%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last two runnings of the course in this format.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the CBT Plus for Depression course has received.
"A course not to be missed by anyone delivering care to someone with depression."
"The course was excellent, informative and well presented - packed full of useful material that can be incorporated into practice."
