2-Day-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Practice-Effective Techniques… – Avidan Milevsky

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Do you have a client who everyone else has given up on?

They’ve seen multiple therapists; without the relief, they want and deserve. Maybe you feel stuck with this client – and at this point, even the client believes they are not capable of getting better.

You can offer them hope…with practical interventions that are proven to WORK!

Evidence points to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as one of the most effective treatments for many chronic, recurring, and challenging mental health conditions.

If you’ve been using CBT skills and aren’t getting the response you expected, then don’t miss this opportunity to master a fresh set of clinical tools and skills that will transform your practice. This is NOT a “one-strategy-fits-all” approach.

This CBT course offers you a complete collection of practical ways to integrate this empirically supported approach in your very next session.

• Proven, effective techniques you can use with your clients for the most common presenting problems … including anxiety, depression and trauma.
• A collection of specific, practical tips with real-world examples to help you adapt these proven principles to fit your client’s unique needs … building a strong, collaborative relationship with them and shifting their negative beliefs without your client feeing disrespected or shamed.
• Example script examples to masterfullyovercome the most common objections and problems therapists encounter at each stage of therapy.

1. Formulate the key components of CBT practice.
2. Implement rapport-building tips and tools to improve client trust.
3. Choose methods for conducting CBT psychoeducation to elicit motivation from clients.
4. Modify dysfunctional self-talk, thoughts and core beliefs.
5. Develop case conceptualization skills for treatment of DSM-5® conditions.
6. Assess behavioral techniques to modify maladaptive behaviors.
7. Evaluate key behavioral activation strategies useful for alleviating treatment resistant depression.
8. Recommend behavioral methods to overcome intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
9. Utilize the latest developments in trauma work.
10. Incorporate exposure and cognitive processing interventions used to treat PTSD and trauma.
11. Measure symptom management strategies for disorders.
12. Articulate the role of early maladaptive schemas in maintaining chronic conditions.
13. Apply assessment tools for CBT with individual and family dysfunction.

CBT Checklist

• The cognitive model
• Measurements and assessments
• Short term interventions
• Demystifying the process
• Accountability and independence
• Collaboration
• Education
• Continuity of sessions
• Establishing a therapeutic alliance
• Research risks and limitations

Techniques Used in CBT

• Empirical practice
• Case conceptualization roadmap

Cognitive Tools and Strategies

• Session agenda and assessment
• Automatic thoughts
• Core beliefs, assumptions, reactions, and coping
• Situational reactions

Modifying Rigid Cognitions and Core Beliefs

• Confronting automatic thoughts
• Cognitive distortions and automatic thoughts
• Modifying core beliefs

Behavioral Tools and Strategies

• Behaviorism in practice
• Systematic desensitization
• Hierarchy of fears
• Emotional and behavioral exposure
• Relaxation, breathing and mindfulness
• Goal setting and progress check
• Positive engagement and communication strategies
• Target behavior selection
• Behavior assessment
• Homework tasks

Offshoot Models and Third Wave Approaches

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Schema Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based CBT

CBT for Depression and Suicide

• Risk assessment strategies for suicidal ideation
• Cognitive model and modifying negative cognitions
• Behavioral activation
• Sleep hygiene
• Activity monitoring and scheduling
• Gratitude and meaning

CBT for Anger

• Cognitive model of anger
• Symptom management
• The zone of intervention

CBT for Anxiety

• Cognitive model of anxiety
• OCD, Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Panic Disorders, Phobias
• Hierarchy work
• Subjective Units of Distress Scale
• Exposure and Response Prevention
• Intrusive thoughts metacognitive strategies
• Behavioral experiments

CBT for Trauma and PTSD

• Neurological and memory foundations of trauma
• Prolonged Exposure
• Trauma narratives
• Childhood memories, traumas and core beliefs
• Experiential techniques

Family Turmoil and the Cognitive Model

• Family-based core beliefs
• The use of family support
• The Parental Context

Application to Clinical Practice with Case Studies and Role Plans