| | 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. The workshops 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. WORKSHOPS FOR 2007
Although very
prevalent, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is not popular with mental
health practitioners. Because it is usually chronic, and tends to pervade
virtually every area of a sufferer's life, GAD is difficult and
time-consuming to treat effectively. This workshop will show how CBT can be
used to combat GAD using techniques developed from the work of theorists
such as Borkovec, Warren & Zgourides, and Copeland, emphasising stimulus
control to combat the continual worrying that characterises GAD. Topics will
include: understanding the concept of worrying, assessment of GAD and
related problems, identification of contributing factors, treatment
planning, strategies to reduce worrying, adjunctive strategies such as
relaxation training, exposure, cognitive restructuring and problem-solving,
and relapse prevention.
While emphasising
how to help clients with GAD, the workshop will also be useful for
participating practitioners who themselves worry more than they want to.
Teaching will involve live demonstrations, therapy videos, case-study work,
and practice in pairs and small groups.
This workshop will
focus on advanced disputation (cognitive restructuring), that is, helping
clients change the dysfunctional beliefs that create their unwanted emotions
and problematical behaviours. Participants will be exposed to a range of
cognitive, emotive, imagery and behavioural techniques. Topics will include:
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General principles
of disputation
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Which beliefs to
focus on
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Disputational
styles: Socratic, didactic & metaphorical
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Techniques to test
the rationality of specific beliefs (e.g. 'Double-standard', 'Catastrophe
scale', 'Time-projection,' 'Blow-up', etc.)
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Helping clients
develop substitute beliefs
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Techniques to
reinforce changes in thinking (e.g. 'Benefits Calculation', 'Devil's
Advocate', 'Coping rehearsal')
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Dealing with
beliefs that are resistant to change.
Teaching will be
conducted via seminar work, demonstrations, videos and small group practice
work and participants will receive a comprehensive book of readings.
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.
CBT for Primary Health
Care Practitioners
(Jenny
Nichols)
This interactive
workshop is aimed specifically at nurses and other health
professionals working within the primary health care environment. Following
a brief introduction to CBT, the focus will turn to how it can be used to
enhance the effectiveness of treatment and care within the primary setting.
Special attention will be given to motivating people to change their
behaviour with regard to health and lifestyle choices and strengthening
commitment to change.
You will learn about and practice a number of CBT skills and techniques such
as the double-standard dispute, cost-benefit analysis, catastrophe scale,
reframing and devil’s advocate. You are invited to bring clinical scenarios
to work on in small groups throughout the day, and can expect to leave the
workshop with an array of practical strategies that will help your clients
achieve worthwhile change in their overall health.
Skill Power not Will Power: Using CBT
to help people manage their weight
(Jillian
Simpson)
Obesity has become a major
problem. Whereas dieting alone fails to achieve long term weight loss,
research suggests that when Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is incorporated with
other lifestyle approaches, people have more success with managing their
weight. They are also more likely to achieve greater psychological
well-being through such cognitive strategies as the facilitation of self
acceptance.
This workshop will be
relevant to health professionals working with people with weight issues.
Behavioural and cognitive interventions, along with stress management,
mindfulness and social support will be explored as it relates to adults
wishing to lose weight or avoid further weight gain.
Mindfulness: A DBT approach
(Rhian Evans &
Jillian Simpson)
Mindfulness assists clients
to focus their mind on the present in a non-judgemental way, thereby
enabling effective management of problematic thoughts, emotions 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. Participants will learn techniques which will
help their 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, anger and many other
psychological disorders. Participants are advised that attending the next
day’s workshop ‘Emotion Regulation: A DBT Approach’ is recommended, but
not essential.
Emotion Regulation: A DBT
approach
(Rhian
Evans)
Dialectical Behaviour
Therapy was originally developed to help chronically suicidal clients and is
now used for a range of complex, difficult to treat mental disorders. An
essential element of DBT, Emotion Regulation helps clients deal with complex
emotions. In this workshop, participants will acquire the knowledge to
assist clients to identify and explore emotions in a way that helps prevent
overwhelming feelings and dysfunctional behaviour. Participants are advised
that attending the previous day’s workshop ‘Mindfulness: A DBT Approach’ is
recommended, but not essential.
Chronic Illness & Disability
(Toni
Hocquard)
The World Health
Organisation has identified that health outcomes for those with chronic
conditions are poor. The development of secondary conditions, such as
problems with pain, anxiety and depression, are common, resulting in
excessive suffering for the individual. Research has shown that adjustment
and health outcomes are linked. Developing self-management strategies are
key in the management of the impact of a chronic illness or disability.
This workshop will explore the benefits of Rational Emotive Behaviour
Therapy as an effective self-management tool. Participants will use their
own experiences of working with clients to gain a better understanding of
the impact that emotional disturbance can have on health outcomes.
Techniques such as identifying the cause of the emotional disturbance (i.e.
irrational thinking) and simple disputation will be practised in an
interactive and fun way.
An increasing
suicide rate has created concern in the helping professions and the public
at large. Much recent training has been appropriately directed at assessment
and safety issues. But what do you do when safety has been taken care of?
This workshop will show how clients can be helped to reduce their suicidal
ideation using a number of cognitive-behavioural strategies.
There will be a
refresher on the basics of assessing suicide risk and planning management;
followed by a discussion of the role of depression and its treatment using
CBT; with most of the workshop focussing on a variety of
cognitive-behavioural techniques that can be used to reduce depressive and
suicidal ideation.
This workshop will
provide training in the use of CBT to help clients with chronic anger. It
will be relevant to work with clients where anger is associated with other
problems — such as an anxiety, mood or psychotic disorder — as well as to
practitioners working with clients where anger is the main presenting
problem.
Topics will include
functional vs dysfunctional anger, the causes of chronic anger, motivation
to change, domestic violence, safety issues and working with adults and
adolescents.
Participants will
learn a range of treatment strategies, including benefits calculation,
catastrophe scale, rational-emotive imagery, problem-solving, thought
recording, graduated exposure with response-prevention; and dealing with the
core beliefs that underlie dysfunctional anger.
The presentation
will utilise the work of key CBT theorists such as Raymond Novaco, Albert
Ellis, Ray DiGiuseppe, Christine Padesky and Janet Wolfe.
Other training events:
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