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Events for September 2021
Roz Shafran and Pam Myles-Hooton
LICBT Behavioural Experiments
Workshop 9.30am-12.30pm on 15th September 2021
This workshop focuses on behavioural experiments appropriate for working within a low intensity CBT method.
Jynna Yarrum
Social Anxiety Disorder: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment
Webinar 10am-11.30am on 23rd September 2021
This webinar focuses on how to spot, differentiate and use anxiety disorder specific measures for Social Anxiety Disorder at LICBT assessment .
Dr Torrey Creed
An introduction to the use and adaptation of CBT strategies for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Webinar 3pm-4.30pm on 28th September 2021
The webinar will begin with a brief discussion of common characteristics of a person with ASD and mental health challenges that these clients may face, in order to frame the subsequent discussion of skills. Next, we will describe adaptations to common CBT practices that may be helpful to match the unique cognitive or behavioral styles people with ASD may have. Affective education strategies will be presented to help clients to identify, communicate, and cope with strong emotional experiences. Finally, we will present tools to strengthen social reasoning, which can help improve the client’s interpersonal relationships..
Events for October 2021
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Prof. David Clark
Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 6th October 2021
The workshop will outline the Clark (1986) model and illustrate the key treatment procedures that were developed from the model. These include assessing the idiosyncratic meaning of feared bodily sensations, developing an individual model of the way in which fearful beliefs and safety behaviours interact to maintain the problem, key discussion techniques and behavioural experiments for all the common panic-related thoughts, and relevant imagery-based interventions. The techniques will be illustrated with multiple case examples, exercises and video clips. Participants will be provided with a detailed therapist manual for their future use.
Freda McManus
Maximising the effectiveness of CBT supervision
Webinar 10am-11.30am 14th October 2021
This webinar will outline Corrie & Lane’s (2015) model of CBT supervision which focuses on activities that help you to:
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Prepare for CBT supervision
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Undertake CBT supervision
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Refine your CBT supervision
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Enhance your CBT supervision practice.
Additionally, the areas identified in Pilling and Roth’s Generic Supervision Competencies (2008) will be used as a framework to encourage participants to reflect on, and identify areas for improvement in, their own supervisory practices.
Events for November 2021
Dr Helen Kennerley
Guiding Discovery through Socratic Methods: A brief guide
Webinar 10am-11.30am 3rd November 2021
This webinar provides practitioners with guidance on getting the most out of Socratic Methods. The speaker will present the theoretical underpinnings of the Socratic approach before presenting a range of cognitive and behavioural options for the practitioner using Socratic Methods for different purposes. She will explore when it might be advantageous not to use Socratic methods, but instead to use direct and didactic methods. The practitioner’s aim is not to overuse Socratic Methods but to know when and how they are best implemented.
Prof. Anke Ehlers
Cognitive Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
This workshop builds on Ehlers and Clark’s (2000) cognitive model of PTSD. This model suggests that people with PTSD perceive a serious current threat that has two sources; excessively negative appraisals (personal meanings) of the trauma and/or its sequelae; characteristics of trauma memories that lead to re-experiencing the symptoms. The problem is maintained by cognitive strategies (such as thought suppression, rumination, safety-seeking behaviours) that are intended to reduce the sense of current threat, but actually maintain the problem by preventing change in the appraisals and trauma memory. The workshop will describe how to deliver core interventions of CT-PTSD remotely, including updating memories, trigger discrimination and behavioural experiments, and present video illustrations.
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 18th November 2021
Pam Myles-Hooton
OCD: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment
Webinar 10am-11.30am 24th November 2021
This webinar is part of a series of four webinars that will focus on how to spot a number of anxiety disorders including OCD, PTSD, and Health Anxiety and to look at what differentiates them from other anxiety disorders. The IAPT screening prompts tool that is recommended for use in LICBT assessments will be discussed. The Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures recommended by IAPT will also be discussed in terms of how to use them, cut offs for caseness, and how to interpret scores. An earlier event (23.9.21) delivered by Jynna Yarrum focuses on Social Anxiety Disorder.
Events for December 2021
Dr Nick Grey
Using behavioural experiments in Cognitive Therapy
Webinar 10am-11.30am 7th December 2021
This webinar will help participants use behavioural experiments most effectively with their clients. It will describe when to and how best to set the cognitive platform for behavioural experiments. There will be videos of behavioural experiments both inside and outside the therapy office. There will be opportunity for participants to reflect on their own work and to consider how to overcome obstacles to effective use of behavioural experiments.
Prof. Ed Watkins
Rumination-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 13th December 2021
This workshop will illustrate the innovative adaptations to the CBT approach that can help to overcome this problem and improve outcomes for chronic, recurrent and residual depression and co-morbid anxiety. The workshop will review the theoretical background, key principles, and core techniques of the therapy, including functional analysis of thinking style, behavioural activation, imagery, concreteness, experiential exercises and behavioural experiments.
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Events for January 2022
Pam Myles-Hooton
PTSD: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment
Webinar 10am-11.30am 11th January 2022
This webinar is part of a series of four webinars that will focus on how to spot a number of anxiety disorders including OCD, PTSD, and Health Anxiety and to look at what differentiates them from other anxiety disorders. The IAPT screening prompts tool that is recommended for use in LICBT assessments will be discussed. The Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures recommended by IAPT will also be discussed in terms of how to use them, cut offs for caseness, and how to interpret scores. An earlier event (23.9.21) delivered by Jynna Yarrum focuses on Social Anxiety Disorder.
Prof. Anne-Marie Albano
Treatment for Anxiety in Adolescents at the Transition to Adulthood
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 18th January 2022
This workshop will focus on the Launching Emerging Adults Program (LEAP), a model integrating the core components of effective CBT for anxiety in adolescents and young adults with novel components designed to address patient-caretaker dependency, role transitions, and attainment of behaviors necessary for independent functioning within the contexts that are unique to this developmental age.
Events for February 2022
Prof. Roz Shafran
Chronic loneliness: an evidence-informed approach
Webinar 10am-11.30am 1st February 2022
This webinar will:
Provide an update on the evidence with regard to psychological therapies for chronic loneliness including (but not limited to) cognitive behaviour therapy
Describe the CBT intervention evaluated in a recent internet based trial of CBT for chronic loneliness and present preliminary data on its efficacy
Present a new modular CBT approach to addressing chronic loneliness that aims to account for the range of presentations seen across different populations.
Dr Kerry Young
Working with complicated and complex trauma
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 10th February 2022
This workshop will focus on working with complicated and complex trauma using a CBT approach. In this workshop, Dr Young will briefly review what evidence there is for treating more complicated/Complex PTSD presentations. Then, she will suggest a pragmatic clinical pathway for clinicians to follow.
Events for March 2022
Prof. Steve Hollon
Working with complex depression
This workkshop will integrate specific behavioral and cognitive strategies that form the core of the approach with more recent theoretical extensions developed to deal with long-standing personality disorders. Two cases (one simple, one complex) will be used to illustrate.
Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm 3rd March 2022
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Pam Myles-Hooton
Health Anxiety: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment
Webinar 10am-11.30am 16th March 2022
This webinar is part of a series of four webinars that will focus on how to spot a number of anxiety disorders including OCD, PTSD, and Health Anxiety and to look at what differentiates them from other anxiety disorders. The IAPT screening prompts tool that is recommended for use in LICBT assessments will be discussed. The Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures recommended by IAPT will also be discussed in terms of how to use them, cut offs for caseness, and how to interpret scores. An earlier event (23.9.21) delivered by Jynna Yarrum focuses on Social Anxiety Disorder.
