Training In CBT & Other Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies
Introduction
This clinically focused workshop, led by Jill Newby and Alison Mahoney will review the nature and maintenance of health anxiety, gold-standard assessment tools, and teach cognitive behavioural strategies to treat health anxiety.
The event will be equivalent to 5.1/2 hrs of CPD.
Content
This training will have a strong clinical focus, with practical case studies, and examples of essential CBT treatment strategies to help clients manage health anxiety. The training will cover an introduction to health anxiety, focusing on diagnostic terminology, and leading theories to inform case formulation. Next, we will explain how to assess health anxiety and provide an overview of clinically useful assessment tools. We will then provide an overview of key treatment techniques for health anxiety (cognitive therapy techniques, exposure therapy, behavioural experiments) and how to address some of the key challenges that can arise when working with clients with health anxiety.
Learning Objectives
1. Develop an understanding of health anxiety.
2. Develop skills in assessment and case formulation of health anxiety.
3. Describe and implement CBT techniques for health anxiety.
Training Modalities
This workshop will combine didactic content, self-experiential exercises, polls, and question and answer sessions.
Key References
1. Kikas, K., Werner-Seidler. A., Upton, E., & Newby, J.M. Illness Anxiety Disorder: A review of the current research and future directions (2024). Current Psychiatry Reports, 26(7), doi: 10.1007/s11920-024-01507-2.
2. Anderson, R., Saulsman, L., & Nathan, P. (2011). Helping Health Anxiety. Perth, Western Australia: Centre for Clinical Interventions. https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Health-Anxiety
3. Furer, P., Walker, J., & Stein, M. (2007) Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death: A Practitioner’s Guide. Springer.
4. Tyrer, H. (2013). Tackling health anxiety: A CBT handbook. Cambridge University Press.
5. Asmundson, G., & Taylor, S. (2005). It’s Not All in Your Head: How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick-and What You Can. The Guilford Press
About the presenter
Jill Newby is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the Black Dog Institute and the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. She has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and chronic health conditions. She has published more than 130 journal articles and book chapters. Her research explores the nature, diagnosis, and course of health anxiety, and the development, evaluation and dissemination of accessible digital treatments for health anxiety, and other mood and anxiety disorders. Jill’s research is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund, National Institute of Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust.
Alison Mahoney is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Director of Clinical Research at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), St Vincent’s Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. For the last 18 years, she has clinically specialised in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders within tertiary-referral clinics as well as digital mental health services. Her research program investigates the nature and management of these disorders, with a particular emphasis on transdiagnostic cognitive and behavioural processes and the effectiveness of interventions in routine clinical settings.
Who should attend
Jill Newby is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the Black Dog Institute and the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. She has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and chronic health conditions. She has published more than 130 journal articles and book chapters. Her research explores the nature, diagnosis, and course of health anxiety, and the development, evaluation and dissemination of accessible digital treatments for health anxiety, and other mood and anxiety disorders. Jill’s research is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund, National Institute of Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust.
Alison Mahoney is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Director of Clinical Research at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), St Vincent’s Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. For the last 18 years, she has clinically specialised in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders within tertiary-referral clinics as well as digital mental health services. Her research program investigates the nature and management of these disorders, with a particular emphasis on transdiagnostic cognitive and behavioural processes and the effectiveness of interventions in routine clinical settings.