Description
This On Demand course and will be available after purchase. Participants can watch, pause, and re-watch the sessions at their convenience.
All course content (quiz, certificate, videos) will be available until July 1, 2021. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Registration will close on June 1, 2021.
Cognitive – Behavioural Therapy is considered the “gold standard” treatment for many psychological
conditions most commonly seen in the clinical setting. Despite it’s strong evidence base, many
practitioners have gone a more “integrative” route and surprisingly few have developed the advanced
expertise needed to deliver the most in-demand treatment effectively on a regular basis to a clientele that often remains “stuck.”
If this describes you, don’t miss this opportunity!
Join international CBT trainer and expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach, for this three day intensive breakthrough course that will help you hone your skills, equip yourself to confidently deal with even your most challenging cases, and reignite your passion to the work you once loved.
You will be able to utilize concrete strategies that will provide greater levels of healing for clients that
suffer from:
- Depression – related disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- PTSD
- Anger problems
- Substance use disorders
- Cluster B disorders
- Borderline personality disorder
- and many more!
Leave this course chock full of practical tools and techniques that you can implement with your clients the very next day!
Online Course Format
- 18 CEUs
- 18 Hours of content
- Non-Interactive – registrants will have access to lectures, PowerPoint presentation, demonstrations, video clips, and experiential exercises.
Day 1: Mastering Core competencies and fundamental strategies
Foundations in CBT
- Rationale for techniques and approach
- Neurobiological findings
- Outcome studies
Treatment Concepts
- Socialization to minimize client dropout rates
- Emotional schemas
- Understanding levels of cognition
- Behavioural pattern breaking for disrupting lifelong destructive cycles
Offshoot Models
- “Third Wave” approaches
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance & commitment therapy ACT)
- Schema Therapy
Cognitive Conceptualization
- Case formulation
- Collaborative empiricism
- Individualized, theme based treatment planning and documentation
The Therapeutic Relationship
- Establishing rapport
- Dealing with ruptures in the therapeutic alliance
- Predictive of treatment outcome
Essential Strategies for your Toolbox
- Labeling distortions
- Types of cognitive interventions
- Identifying and evaluating automatic thoughts
- Cognitive restructuring
- Perspective taking
- Continuums
- Examining likelihood
- Behavioural experiments
- Evidence logs
- Modifying Core Beliefs
Application to clinical practice
- Structure of a CBT session
- Collaborative agenda setting
- Booster sessions
- Dialectical behaviour therapy
Day 2: CBT for Everyday Issues of Clinical Concern
Disorders Formerly known as Mood Disorders
- Cognitive model of depression
- Behavioural activation
- Sleep hygiene
- Activity monitoring and scheduling
- Gratitude and meaning
- Schema modification
- Bipolar disorder
- Safety planning
Anger
- The cognitive model of anger
- Dealing with violence and aggression
- “Moral resistance,” acceptance, and Values – based living
Anxiety Disorders
- The cognitive model of anxiety
- Metacognitive tools for GAD
- Exposure based work with phobias
- Interoceptive strategies for treating panic disorder
- Schema based journaling for amplifying change
PTSD
- CBT for treating trauma
- Psycho education and the neurobiology of trauma
- Recognizing the symptoms of PTSD
- Trauma narrative work
- “Moral injury“ and restructuring cognitions feeding guilt and shame
- Interventions for recurring nightmares
- Cultivating resilience
The Cognitive Model of Addiction
- Substance use disorders in behavioural “addictions”
- Building motivation, Managing urges & developing self-control
- Cognitive behavioural chain analysis
- Addict letters, cognitive cue cards and coping cards
Relapse Prevention
- Recognizing the signs of setbacks and doing relapse prevention work
- Episode management and the road to recovery
- Developing Relapse prevention plans
Day 3: Personality Disorders and other Challenging Cases
Treatment vs Symptom Management
- Putting out fires versus fire prevention
- Early maladaptive schemas
- Behavioural pattern breaking
Why was there ever an “axis II”???
- Distinguishing characteristics
- “Ego-syntonic” nature of PDs
- Talking about the diagnosis in a way that minimizes quiet resistance
Treatment Principles
- The role of the therapeutic relationship
- Duration of treatment
- Getting to the “root” of the problem
Paranoid PD
- Building trust
- Considering alternative explanations
- Managing Anger
Histrionic PD
- Getting needs met in more appropriate ways
- Targeting flirtatious behaviours
- Expanding sense of self worth
Antisocial PD
- Psychopathy and lack of remorse
- The role of attachment
- Dealing with rule – breaking behaviours
Narcissistic PD
- Subtypes of narcissism
- Schema mode work
- Empathic confrontation and utilization of leverage
Borderline PD
- Understanding BPD in Everyday language and learning to talk so clients can hear!
- Differential diagnosis – “complex PTSD, bi-polar disorder and more!
- Motivations NSSI and symptom- targeted and crisis strategies for each
Advanced Strategies
- Complex chain analysis
- Integrated DBT/Schema case study
- Mode dialogues and restructuring early assigned meaning
Wrapping Up
- Q & A
- Summary of learning & dismissal
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., is an award-winning and best-selling author who has devoted the first 17 years of his career to developing and implementing Cognitive Behavioural – based treatment programs in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has conducted CBT trainings in all 50 United states as well as Mexico & New Zealand. He Serves as faculty for educational institutes in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the UK. Although he trained with the prestigious Beck institute of Cognitive Therapy and research, he has become known in the industry as the “practical tools guy.” Most importantly, he has used CBT with his clients in individual and group settings for 20 years, and will leave you with easy to implement strategies you can use with your clients the very next day!
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
|---|
| Individual Enrollment | $619.00 | N/A |
| Full-Time Student | $489.00 | N/A |
All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD).
For group and/or student rates please view our Terms & Conditions and contact webinars@jackhirose.com for more information and registration.
