2-Day-Advanced CBT Training-Evidence-Based Interventions for Chronic Anxiety, OCD, Depression, Trauma and PTSD – John Ludgate

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence based treatment that is one of the most effective treatments for chronic, recurring, and challenging mental health issues such as:

• Anxiety
• OCD
• PTSD
• Depression

Now, the opportunity is yours to learn this powerful modality in a comprehensive online course from CBT expert and author John Ludgate, PhD. Dr. Ludgate is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and trained under Cognitive Therapy’s founder Dr. Aaron Beck at the Center for Cognitive Therapy.

In this intensive online CBT training course, you’ll be provided with a proven set of clinical tools and skills that can enhance your practice – from the basic CBT skills you might have learned early in your career to more advanced CBT techniques applied to a range of disorders.

CBT techniques can sometimes seem deceptively simple to apply but in actual clinical practice it requires demonstrable skills in three areas.

1. Conceptualizing client’s presenting problems from a CBT perspective,
2. Selecting appropriate interventions consistent with the case formulation, and
3. Delivering these interventions and techniques systematically and with maximum effectiveness.

This training will assist you in developing skills in all three areas.

Dr. Ludgate will show how to overcome common obstacles frequently encountered in doing CBT with clients with different disorders.

• Improve your clients’ therapeutic experience with CBT interventions that are consistently shown to be effective.
• Utilize a fresh set of clinical tools and skills that can improve your practice, and treatment outcomes.

1. Articulate the underlying theory of cognitive behavioral therapy and describe the current state of the science regarding CBT.
2. Utilize CBT skills and rationale to foster the therapeutic alliance and enhance motivation for CBT.
3. Utilize a cross-sectional, cognitive behavioral conceptualization to assess presenting problems.
4. Choose cognitive interventions to modify dysfunctional thinking patterns and core beliefs.
5. Conceptualize cases from a cognitive-behavioral perspective to inform treatment planning.
6. Implement cognitive and behavioral techniques to alleviate generalized anxiety symptomology.
7. Utilize key behavioral activation strategies useful for alleviating treatment resistant depression.
8. Demonstrate cognitive and behavioral methods to address intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
9. Incorporate exposure and cognitive processing interventions used to treat PTSD.
10. Utilize exposure and cognitive approaches to reduce social anxiety.
11. Articulate the role of schemas in maintaining anxiety and depression disorders.
12. Identify and manage multicultural, interpersonal and family issues which may arise in cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and mood disorders.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Exploring the Model

• Empirical support for CBT
• Limitations of the research and potential risks
• Evolution of CBT from its initial model to the expanded
• CBT’s influence on the development of other models (ACT, DBT, schema therapy)

Assessment and Treatment Planning Through the Lens of CBT

• Cross-sectional
• Longitudinal conceptualization
• Issues in case formulation

Behavioral Interventions

• Behavioral activation
• Graded assignments
• Pleasure scheduling
• Problem solving

Cognitive Interventions

• Identifying core beliefs
• Eliciting negative thoughts
• Recognizing cognitive distortions
• Use of reframing

The CBT Session, Step-by-Step

• Fostering the therapeutic alliance
• Collaboration
• Structure and agenda setting
• Feedback
• Guided discovery
• Homework

CBT with Depressive Disorders

• Psychoeducation
• Transforming anhedonia, feelings of worthlessness, and low self-esteem
• Helping clients overcome low energy, fatigue
• Problem solving strategies to provide solutions to daily problems
• Relapse prevention
• Crisis intervention for active and passive suicidal ideation

CBT with Bipolar and Related Disorders

• Psychoeducation
• Management of manic symptoms
• Mood rating and monitoring
• Identification of triggers and prodromal symptoms
• CBT for medication compliance
• Overcoming sleep disturbance

CBT for Anxiety Disorders

• CBT’s role in managing anxiety and worry
• Reducing physiological effects of anxiety
• Disrupting rumination, anxiety spirals, and more
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder: cognitive and behavioral interventions
  • Panic Disorder: Situational and interoceptive exposure
  • OCD: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
  • PTSD: Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
  • Social Anxiety Disorder: Exposure and Cognitive Approaches

Special Issues

• Multicultural consideration
• Interpersonal and family issues
• Other common issues in treatment delivery