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

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

Speaker

John Ludgate, PhD Related seminars and products

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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 the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC. 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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For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

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.

Outline

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

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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