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We offer a range of online CPD training events including full day and half day workshops and 1.5 hour webinars. Certificates of attendance are issued to delegates attending at least 80% of the event.
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Workshops and Webinars
Our workshop and webinar programme reflects current priorities in mental healthcare provision including a focus on children and young people as well as working age adults and older people.
Clinical topics include evidence-based psychological treatments for anxiety, depression, serious mental illness such as psychosis, and complexity such as personality disorder and austism spectrum disorder. The predominant psychological approach will be cognitive behavioural therapy but also includes other evidence-based psychological treatments.
Specific clinical skills (e.g. setting up behavioural experiments) and delivery methods (e.g. internet-based treatment delivery) also feature on our programme.
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Upcoming Events
Low Intensity CBT Behavioural Experiments by Roz Shafran and Pam Myles-Hooton on September 15th
This workshop focuses on behavioural experiments appropriate for working within a low intensity CBT method.
Social Anxiety Disorder: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures for Low Intensity Assessments by Jynna Yarrum on September 23rd
This webinar focuses on how to spot, differentiate and use anxiety disorder specific measures for Social Anxiety Disorder at LICBT assessment.
An Introduction to the Use and Adaptation of CBT Strategies for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Torrey Creed on September 28th
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.
CBT for Panic Disorder by David Clark on October
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.
Maximising the effectiveness of CBT Supervision by Freda McManus on October 14th
This webinar will outline Corrie & Lane’s (2015) model of CBT supervision which focuses on activities that help you to:
Prepare for CBT supervision
Undertake CBT supervision
Refine your CBT supervision
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.
Prepare for CBT supervision
Undertake CBT supervision
Refine your CBT supervision
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.
Socratic Dialogue by Helen Kennerley on November 3rd
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.
Cognitive Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Anke Ehlers on November 18th
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.
Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures for Low Intensity Assessments by Pamela Myles-Hooton on November 24th
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.
Using behavioural experiments in Cognitive Therapy by Nick Grey on December 7
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.
CBT for Rumination in Depression by Ed Watkins on December 1
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.
PTSD: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment by Pam Myles-Hooton on January 11th 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.
Treatment for anxiety in adolescents at the transition to adulthood by Anne-Marie Albano on January
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.
CBT for Loneliness: Theory and Practice
by Roz Shafran on February 1st 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.
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.
Working with complicated and complex PTSD by Kerry Young on February 10th 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.
CBT for Complex Depression by Steve Hollon on March 3rd 2022
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.
Health Anxiety: Spotting, differentiating and using Anxiety Disorder Specific Measures at LICBT assessment by Pam Myles-Hooton on March 16th 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.
CBT for Generalised Anxiety Disorder by Michel Dugas on March 30th 20222
This workshop will present cognitive-behavioural treatment options for adults with GAD. Treatment options, which are based on the intolerance of uncertainty model of GAD, include (1) motivational interviewing, (2) behavioural experiments for intolerance of uncertainty, (3) problem-solving training, and (4) imaginal exposure. Each treatment option will be tied to the scientific literature, presented in a step-by-step fashion, and illustrated using clinical material. Data from clinical trials of two different treatment protocols based on the intolerance of uncertainty model will be presented. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of how treatment options can be tailored to the needs of each person suffering from GAD.
Interested in our training?
Click on the link below to view and book upcoming training events.