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This interactive, on-demand, multimedia course will teach you evidence-based cognitive and behavioral strategies to effectively treat clients diagnosed with depression. Learn to conceptualize clients, structure treatment, elicit and evaluate clients’ automatic thoughts, build and maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, and collaboratively develop Action Plans. Follow along as Dr. Allen Miller, Beck Institute CBT Program Director, demonstrates a broad range of valuable treatment strategies backed by decades of empirical research and experience.
Course Curriculum
Module 1: The Basics of CBT for Depression
Theory, Therapy, and Research on Depression
Video of a Therapy Session
Strength-Based and Problem-Based Cognitive Formulation
Schemas
The Cognitive Triad and the Cognitive Model
Module 2: Planning Treatment Using Cognitive Conceptualization Diagrams
Introduction to the Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram (CCD
The Strength-Based Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram (SB-CCD)
The Problem-Based Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram (PB-CCD)
Using the CCD to Plan Treatment
Module 3: Building Blocks of Treatment
Structure of Therapy Sessions
Re-Establishing Rapport and Doing a Mood and Medication Check
Bridges, Agendas, and Review of Action Plans
Middle and End of Sessions
The Therapeutic Relationship
Setting Action Plans
Module 4: Beginning Treatment
The Evaluation Session and Contacting Other Providers
The First Session: Objectives, Structure, Beginning
The First Session: Psychoeducation
The First Session: Typical Day, Core Values, and Aspirations
The First Session: Setting Goals
First Session: The End of the Session
Module 5: Automatic Thoughts
Basics of Automatic Thoughts
Types of Automatic Thoughts
Eliciting Automatic Thoughts
Socratic Questioning to Evaluate Automatic Thoughts
Additional Techniques to Address Automatic Thoughts
Module 6: Core Beliefs, Coping Strategies, and Intermediate Beliefs
Identifying and Providing Psychoeducation about Core Beliefs
Modifying Maladaptive Core Beliefs
Coping Strategies and Intermediate Beliefs
Module 7: Techniques from CBT and Other Therapies
Problem Solving, Credit Lists, and Decision Making
Creating Therapy Notes
Scheduling Activities
Clinical Roundtable about Scheduling Activities
Role Plays
Graded Task Assignments, Skills Training, and Bibliotherapy
Mindfulness Techniques
Techniques from other Modalities
Module 8: Termination and Relapse Prevention
Preparing to Terminate
Tapering Sessions
Activities Near Termination
Difficulties with Termination and Booster Sessions