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Digital Seminar

Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques to Treat Your Most Challenging Client


Speaker:
John Ludgate, PhD
Duration:
6 Hours 08 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jan 29, 2014
Product Code:
POS013190
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Evidence-Based Treatments for:

  • Anxiety
  • Personality Disordered Clients
  • Treatment Resistant Depression
  • Suicidal Clients

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most researched and empirically supported approach to treating multiple mental health diagnoses, and is widely considered the treatment of choice for a variety of psychiatric conditions. Attend this seminar and take home empirically supported treatment techniques for your most difficult and treatment resistant clients:

  • The Chronically Depressed Client
  • The Highly Anxious Client
  • The Personality Disordered Client
  • Angry & Volatile Client

This seminar will teach you a more comprehensive cognitive approach and provide you with multiple cognitive and behavioral strategies that you can integrate into your practice. Learn in-depth schema focused interventions that are useful for addressing more difficult clinical problems. Incorporate a multi-modal approach that will provide you with specific techniques that can be implemented immediately from the disciplines of CBT , MET and DBT.

OUTLINE

CBT: Powerful Evidence-Based Treatment

  • Practical Application for Clients
  • Evidence-based Treatment
  • Neurobiological Findings

Current State of CBT: It’s More Than What You Think

  • The Cognitive Model
  • Labeling Distortions
  • Restructuring Cognitive Processes
  • Modifying Beliefs
  • Identifying Maladaptive Schemas
  • Behavioral Pattern Breaking
  • DBT Skills Training

Chronically Depressed & Treatment Resistant Client

  • Model
  • Case Studies
  • Conceptualization
  • Interventions
    • Behavioral Activation
    • Cognitive/Schema Change Techniques
    • Acute Suicidality & Assessment
    • Risk & Protective Factors
    • Safety Planning

The Highly Anxious Client

  • Model
  • Case Studies
  • Conceptualization
  • Interventions
    • Strategies for OCD
    • Metacognitive Strategies
    • Identify and Reduce Safety Behaviors
    • Chain Analysis
    • Schema Change Techniques to Decrease Suspiciousness

The Volatile-Angry Client

  • Model
  • Cognitive Distortions
  • Case Studies
  • Interventions
  • Behavioral/Anger Management Strategies
  • Cognitive Strategies

Personality Disordered Client

  • Model
  • Case Studies
  • Conceptualization
  • Chronic Suicidality
  • Interventions
    • DBT Skills Training
    • Mindfulness, other Metacognitive Interventions
    • Cognitive Continuum Techniques
    • Belief Modification Strategies
    • Historical Schema Work
    • Coping/Cue Cards
    • Crisis Management: To Hospitalize or Not to Hospitalize?

More Advanced CBT Techniques for:

  • Substance Abuse
    • Avoid High Risk Situations and Relapse
  • Psychotic Client
  • Self Harm & Other Destructive Behaviors

Application for Your Clinical Practice

  • Structure of Session
  • Phases of Treatment
  • The Impact of Homework
  • Ending Treatment Well

OBJECTIVES

  • Acquire knowledge of treatment models for challenging cases.
  • Utilize evidence-based strategies for treating difficult clinical conditions including OCD, treatment resistant depression, personality disorders.
  • Develop competency in treatment techniques from CBT , DBT , Metacognitnitive & Motivational Approaches.
  • Demonstrate how case conceptualization drives effective treatment planning & improves outcomes.
  • Utilize effective techniques for cross-cutting symptoms like paranoia, insomnia, & impulsivity.
  • Discuss case studies to increase understanding of multiple symptom sets and disorders.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

John Ludgate, Ph.D., is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. His practice, which involves work in both a private practice and in an outpatient psychiatric center, consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions. He is currently working at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Asheville, North Carolina. John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, obtaining a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently became Assistant Director of Training at Dr. Beck's Center. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a Research Clinical Psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis. He has authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.


To order the book, The CBT Toolbox: A Workbook for Clients and Clinicians, please visit our product store.

To order the book, DBT Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings, please visit our product store.


 

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Credit


* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

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Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 credits.


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

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This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

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Speaker

John Ludgate, PhD's Profile

John Ludgate, PhD Related seminars and products

Licensed Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Private Practice


John Ludgate, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He subsequently became assistant director of training at Dr. Beck’s Center. His current practice consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Ashville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a research clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

He authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). His other books include Overcoming Compassion Fatigue (PESI, 2014 co-authored with Martha Teater) and The CBT Couples Toolbox (PESI, 2018). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. John Ludgate is the owner and President of CBT Training & Consultancy, Inc. He has an employment relationship with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Ludgate receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. John Ludgate is a member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

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

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