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Learn Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) from the team that developed this revolutionary practice alongside Dr. Aaron Beck. This interactive online course will help you develop skills to work with individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious mental health conditions. You will learn how to: access and energize adaptive modes of living, use the Socratic process to elicit transformative life aspirations, promote daily action that achieves purpose and meaning, and empower and develop resilience in the face of behavioral, social, and physical challenges. You can use CT-R with individuals across the age-span in many settings, including: individual, group, and team-based applications in community-based teams and agencies, acute and long-term inpatient units, correctional settings, and integrative health.
Guided by Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive model, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) provides concrete, actionable steps to promote recovery and resiliency. Originally developed to empower individuals given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, CT-R applies broadly to individuals experiencing extensive behavioral, social, and physical health challenges. CT-R is highly collaborative, person-centered, and strengths-based and focuses on developing and strengthening positive beliefs of purpose, hope, efficacy, empowerment and belonging.
This on-demand course is a good fit for staff of all disciplines across all levels of education and experience working with individuals who have been diagnosed with serious mental health conditions.
Course Curriculum
The Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) Approach
Module 1: The Basics of CT-R: Public Health, Beliefs, Modes, Recovery, Resilience, &Evidence
Module 2: Accessing and Energizing the Adaptive Mode
Module 3: Dreaming Big: Developing the Adaptive Mode with Meaningful Aspirations
Module 4: Positive Action
Module 5: Strengthening the Adaptive Mode: Drawing Conclusions with Guided Discovery
Module 6: Recovery Map
Applying CT-R to Challenges
Module 1: Empowerment for Negative Symptoms
Module 2: Beliefs that can be difficult to understand (Delusions)
Module 3: Understanding Challenges: Hallucinations
Module 4: Challenges: Trauma, Aggression, Self-Injury
Optional Setting-Specific Modules
Module 1: CT-R in Individual Therapy
Module 2: CT-R on the Milieu