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CBT for Depression.
CBT for Depression training is an APT-Accredited 3-day course from one of Canada's leading providers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training courses. We bring the training to your own organization, for maximum cost-effectiveness, and up to 15 people can attend. (2-day version also available.)
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 utilise that to the person's benefit.
The course covers:
- What is depression? Symptoms, causes and incidence. How to analyse 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 behaviour. 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, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy.
Option 1: Bring the course to your organization:
Up to 15 people can attend this course and we bring it to you for a fixed fee. The 3-day course costs $6,595 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses), and the 2-day version costs $4,695 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses).
To book, email office@aptcanada.com, or click the button:
Option 2: 'Train the Trainer':
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license.
This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.
To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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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.
Average Presentation rating: 95%
Average Relevance rating: 95%
*These statistics were last updated in April 2017.
Written Feedback.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Repairing the Damage™ 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."