Cognitive Therapy for Depression
10:00 am to 4:30 pm Saturday, January 25, 2020
10:00 am to 4:30 pm Sunday, January 26, 2020
12 Continuing Education Units
$375 licensed/ $340 pre-licensed/ $200 Auditing for returning students
Note: This class is a prerequisite to any other class in the series
Key Benefits & Takeaways:
- Learn in a small group setting with your peers
- Receive feedback working with your own cases using CBT
- Treat specific symptoms: rumination, hopelessness, anger, anxiety
Cognitive Therapy is one of the most effective, well-researched models for treating depression. Therapists learn successful strategies for using CBT therapy and Mindfulness-Based skills to treat clients with depression. The workshop is lead by San Diego CBT therapist, Sherry Reasbeck, PhD.
Through instruction, CD’s of expert clinicians, experiential exercises using therapist’s cases, therapists practice using CBT skills working with depressed clients.
Specific Educational Objectives:
- Participants will identify two elements of Socratic Questioning through instructor evaluation of training exercises
- Participants will identify one method of identifying underlying assumptions through instructor evaluation of training exercises
- Participants will identify two aspects of setting an agenda
Day One
9:45 a.m. Registration and Check-In
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Morning Session
- Overview of cognitive model, plus cognitive model for depression
- Three methods of planning treatment for depression
- Levels of thoughts: automatic thoughts, underlying assumptions, schema
- Techniques on reviewing the treatment plan with a client to increase collaboration, motivation
- Assessment tools
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
- Setting an agenda
- Weekly activity schedules
- Motivating clients in carrying out assignments
- Socratic questioning
- Using automatic thought records
- Experiential exercises using therapist’s clinical cases
Day Two
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Morning Session
- Using Socratic questioning
- Automatic thought records
- Treating targeted symptoms such as anxiety, shame, low motivation, self-criticism
- Rumination
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
- Practice techniques from Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
- Practice identifying and changing underlying assumptions
- Treatment plan for depression: goals, techniques
- Relapse in depression
- Strategies for helping suicidal patients