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

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

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CBT is often considered the “gold standard” of evidence-based treatments and among the most widely accepted approaches to effectively treat chronic, recurring, and challenging mental health issues such as anxiety, OCD, PTSD, depression, and more.

This training will offer you a complete step-by-step guide to easily advance your CBT practice.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Straightforward, science-backed, tools to help clients recover more quickly
  • Strategies to promote long-lasting change in clients with complex comorbidities
  • Advanced strategies for fully addressing emotion in session
  • Security knowing your interventions are evidence-based and up-to-date

As your trainer and one of the most trusted names in CBT, Dr. Ludgate is the Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and trained under Cognitive Therapy’s founder Dr. Aaron Beck at the Center for Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Ludgate is the perfect person to teach you how to get the most out of your CBT, skillfully apply it to a variety of settings and case scenarios, and make it easy to integrate with other approaches you might already be using.

Join hundreds of your colleagues who’ve taken this best-selling training, and register now!

Here's What You'll Learn


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)
  • Case Example: 32-year-old depressed female client with underlying beliefs that she is defected and will be rejected

Assessment and Treatment Planning Through the Lens of CBT

  • Cross-sectional
  • Longitudinal conceptualization
  • Issues in case formulation
  • Incorporating MI and the stages of change model into the assessment process
  • Formulating a CBT treatment plan
  • Case example: A 45-year-old female client with relationship problems and chronic pain

Behavioral Interventions

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

Cognitive Interventions

  • Identifying core beliefs
  • Eliciting negative thoughts
  • Recognizing cognitive distortions
  • Use of reframining, evidence review and de-catastrophizing

The CBT Session, Step by Step

  • Essential elements of competent CBT: The Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale
  • Fostering the therapeutic alliance
  • Collaboration
  • Structure and agenda setting
  • Feedback
  • Guided discovery
  • Homework

CBT with Depressive Disorders

  • Psychoeducation
  • Transforming anhedonia, changing negative thinking and rumination
  • Helping clients overcome low energy and lack of motivation
  • Problem-solving strategies to provide solutions to daily problems
  • Relapse prevention
  • Crisis intervention for active and passive suicidal ideation
  • Case study: A 59-year-old man with a severe major depressive episode where the depression was related to activity/lack of activity

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: Cognitive interventions
    • Situational and interoceptive exposure
    • OCD: Exposure and response Prevention (ERP)
  • Case example; A 40-year-old man presenting with “unexpected” panic attacks which lead to catastrophic cognitions
  • Cognitive approaches for intrusive thoughts
    • PTSD: Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
    • Social Anxiety Disorder: Exposure and cognitive approaches
  • Case Example: A 40-year-old man with intrusive thoughts regarding sexual assault

Special Issues

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

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • Up to 12.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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John Ludgate, PhD

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John Ludgate, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He subsequently became assistant director of training at Dr. Beck’s Center. His current practice consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Ashville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a research clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

He authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). His other books include Overcoming Compassion Fatigue (PESI, 2014 co-authored with Martha Teater) and The CBT Couples Toolbox (PESI, 2018). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

 

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. John Ludgate is the owner and President of CBT Training & Consultancy, Inc. He has an employment relationship with Cork CBT Centre. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Ludgate receives royalties as a published author and compensation as a consultant. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. John Ludgate is a member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Also Available:
DVD
Product Code:
POS057020
Duration:
12 hours, 41 minutes
Copyright:
Sep 17, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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