Full Course Description

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intensive Training Course

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

Outline

Master the Core Skills and Competencies of CBT

Foundations in CBT

Evolution of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Neurobiological Findings
Outcome Studies

Treatment Concepts

Socialization to Treatment Model
Levels of Cognition
Eliciting & Labeling Distortions
Identify & Evaluate Automatic Thoughts

Offshoot Models

Third Wave Approaches
DBT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Schema Therapy

The Therapeutic Relationship

Establish Rapport
Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance
Predictive of Outcome

Cognitive Conceptualization

Case Formulation
Collaborative Empiricism
Symptom Driven Treatment Planning

Key Components of CBT Practice

Structure
Feedback
Guided Discovery
Collaborative Empiricism
Homework

Application to Clinical Practice

Case Studies/Role Plays

CBT for Mood Disorders, Anger, Anxiety, PTSD & Substance Abuse

CBT for Mood Disorders

Cognitive Model of Depression
Behavioral Activation
Sleep Hygiene
Activity Monitoring & Scheduling
Modify Negative Cognitions
Gratitude & Meaning
Depressive Relapse
Bipolar Disorder

CBT for Anger

Cognitive Model of Anger
Role of Values & “Moral Resistance”
Symptom Management

CBT for Anxiety

Generalized Anxiety
Cognitive Model of Anxiety
“Worry Cure”
Phobias
Hierarchy Work
Desensitization
Panic Disorder
Cognitive Model of Panic
Interoceptive Strategies

CBT for OCD

Intrusive Thoughts
Metacognitive Strategies
Behavioral Experiments

CBT for PTSD

Prolonged Exposure
Cognitive Reprocessing
Trauma Narratives

CBT for Substance Abuse

Impulse Control Models
Monitor Cravings & Resist Urges
Relapse Prevention

Application to Clinical Practice

Case Studies/Role Plays

Difficult Cases, Cluster B & C Personality Disorders

Overview of CBT for Challenging Cases

Why are they challenging
Adaptations in CBT
Modified Expectations for the Therapist

Treatment Model

Early Maladaptive Schemas
Breaking Destructive Behavioral Cycles
Belief Modification Protocol

CBT for Cluster B Personality Disorders

Antisocial
- Psychopathy
- Behavior Management
Narcissistic
- Subtypes of Narcissism
- Schema Mode Work
Histrionic
- Schema Modification
- Constructive Alternatives for “Getting Noticed”
Borderline
- DBT Based Strategies
- Emotion Regulation Skills
- Distress Tolerance Skills
- Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

CBT for Cluster C Personality Disorders

Modifying Avoidant Schemas and Strategies
Changing Dependent Beliefs and Behaviors
OCPD: Interventions and Strategies

Advanced Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders

Modify Deep Seeded Beliefs
Continuum Work
Construct New Beliefs
Internalization Exercises
Build Resilience
Cognitive Behavioral Chain Analysis
Schema Mode Work

CBT for Suicidal Clients

CBT Model of suicide
Risk Assessment
Strategies for Suicidal Ideation and Hopelessness
Reasons for Living Inventories

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

Objectives

Apply evidence-based CBT techniques to multiple symptom sets.
Choose methods for conducting CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from most difficult clients.
Point out, challenge and modify dysfunctional self-talk, thoughts and core beliefs.
Develop case conceptualization skills for treating any DSM-5® condition.
Formulate the key components of CBT practice.
Implement rapport-building tips and tools to improve client relationships.
Evaluate key behavioral activation strategies useful for alleviating treatment resistant depression.
Develop strategies for treating depressive relapses.
Implement cognitive behavioral methods to overcome intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
Integrate key strategies for impulse control used to treat substance use-disorders.
Provide exposure and cognitive processing interventions used to treat PTSD and trauma.
Utilize cognitive reprocessing for clients with PTSD.
Measure symptom management strategies for personality disorders.
Apply DBT skills training for borderline personality disorder.
Articulate the role of early maladaptive schemas in maintaining chronic conditions.
Utilize schema-based strategies for breaking lifelong destructive behavioral cycles.
Determine eight motivations for parasuicidal behaviors and how to effectively intervene for each motivation.
Establish how family dynamics are affected by an individual with borderline personality disorder and discover how to improve family communication.
Compile suicide assessment skills and learn how to document to minimize liability.