Advanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Implementing Psychotherapy Core Tasks
Advanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Implementing Psychology Core Tasks is organized by J&K Seminars. This course has been approved for a maximum of 10.25 CE Hours.
Description:
Dr. Don Meichenbaum will identify, describe, and demonstrate Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Core Tasks of Psychotherapy. These Core Tasks expand the power of the CBT orientation and enable therapists to have more success with their most challenging clients. The Core Tasks include ways to establish and monitor the quality of the therapy relationship, ways of conducting psycho-education, nurturing hope by means of collaborative goal-setting, teaching coping skills, employing generalization guidelines, and addressing the impact of victimizing experiences. Dr. Meichenbaum will use video demonstrations and other examples to show how expert therapists integrate CBT Core Tasks with challenging clients. Attendees will also learn how the Core Tasks can enhance their cultural competence and integrate spirituality within their psychotherapy.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe how to:
• Implement Core Tasks to obtain improved treatment outcomes
• Use client feedback to improve treatment effectiveness
• Conduct risk assessments of a client's potential threat toward others and toward oneself
• Conduct evidence-based integrative interventions with challenging clients who have co-morbid psychiatric disorders
• Tailor treatment in a culturally-sensitive fashion
• Integrate spirituality and psychotherapy
• Bolster client and therapist resilience
Topics:
• Core Tasks of Psychotherapy
• Initial Phase of Psychotherapy
• Nurturing Hope
• Implementing Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Applications to Challenging Clients
• Substance Abuse Disorders
• Personality Disorders - Emotional Dysregulation
• Traumatized Clients