Workshops & Short courses
on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

To supplement its Certificated courses, the Centre also presents standalone half-day or one-day workshops and other short courses for helping professionals.

While there are no special advance requirements for workshops, participants will benefit from doing some reading beforehand - for suggestions, please see the reading list in the section for the Primary Certificate Course. On registration, enrollees will be sent a detailed introductory article on CBT.

For workshop fees and registration, go to the Registration page.

Training events are open to all helping professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists, and people working in the area of human resources.

SHORT WORKSHOPS FOR 2010

Using CBT with Children & their Families
(Shane Stevenson)

This workshop will review a number of tools and techniques for adapting and utilising CBT for children; from, in particular, the work of March and Mulle, Kendall, Friedberg and McClure, Stallard; and Sanders, Ralph and Church. It will emphasise a behavioural focus more relevant to children, including reinforcement schedules, behaviour charts, behavioural rehearsal, exposure tasks and response prevention; but will also explore cognitive techniques such as thought restructuring and stopping. Some time will be spent focusing on anxiety issues and, specifically, obsessive compulsive disorder.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for the presenter to share some of his learning and experiences in order to generate discussion and learning for participants, who will have the opportunity to both familiarise themselves with the resources available and practise some of the techniques.

The workshop is aimed mainly at practitioners who are either new or relatively new to working with children using CBT, but who have some therapeutic understanding and training.

Mindfulness (2 days)
(Rhian Evans )

Although mindfulness, as a concept, has been around for centuries, it is now becoming incorporated into modern psychological treatments at a rapidly increasing rate. This is due, not only to its efficacy, but its range and scope in terms of the various areas of potential application. Mindfulness assists clients to focus their mind on the present in a non-judgemental way, thereby enabling effective management of problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviours. This workshop will provide working knowledge of both the theory and its various forms of application within, primarily, the context of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Workshop participants will be given a brief history of mindfulness, before an introduction into psychological adaptations used today. Participants will also learn of the psychological mechanisms underlying mindfulness and its process of facilitating effective emotion management and behaviour. You will learn techniques which will help your clients take a more objective view of the world, thus facilitating mental health and happiness.

Mindfulness can be applied with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, and many other psychological disorders.

Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment of Anxiety
(Wayne Froggatt)

This interactive workshop will illustrate how CBT can be used to help clients with anxiety problems.

After outlining the main DSM-IV categories of anxiety, participants will be introduced to the basics of REBT & general CBT, and shown a range of CBT strategies and techniques that can be used with anxiety disorders. These ‘building blocks’ will then be applied to a selection of anxiety conditions, including: generalised anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, specific phobias, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, health anxiety.

Participants will receive a copy of The Rational Treatment of Anxiety, a comprehensive text outlining cognitive-behavioural approaches to the key anxiety disorders listed in DSM IV.