CBT Training in Chester
Perspectives-CBT is proud to announce the launch of Intensive Clinical Skills Training (ICST) in association with Chester Centre for CBT (CC-CBT). ICST is a progressive CBT training programme designed to enable frontline clinicians to achieve basic competence in conducting assessment, formulation, and structured clinical interventions for a range of disorders.
Intensive Clinical Skills Training (ICST) Programme
PHASE I: Core Skills
1. Assessment & Formulation (2008: December 2nd, 3rd, 4th)
2. Core Intervention Skills (2008: January 20th, 21st, 22nd)
PHASE II: Assessment & Treatment of Clinical Disorders (dates to be confirmed)
1. Panic Disorder & Agoraphobia
2. Social Phobia
3. Depression
4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
5. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
6. Generalised Anxiety Disorder
7. Health Anxiety
8. Insomnia
9. Anger Problems
10. Bulimia & Binge Eating
Each workshop includes a limited amount of didactic teaching on the key aspects of the theory and practice of CBT. However there is an emphasis upon demonstration of skills & practical role-play. Teaching and learning will take place within a friendly atmosphere conducive to learning. However participants must be prepared to engage in role-play exercises and to provide and receive constructive feedback.
Intensive Clinical Skills Training (ICST) is intended for health professionals from a range of disciplines who want to acquire the basic skills required to adopt the cognitive behavioural approach. Participants most likely to benefit include nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists, trainee psychologists, counsellors and graduate mental health workers. Practitioners from other fields will be considered on an individual basis. All participants must have: (a) a current clinical placement where they will be able to practice the skills learned in workshops, & (b) access to appropriate clinical supervision.
The workshops in Intensive Clinical Skills Training (ICST) build on each other. Hence in PHASE I of the programme participants must attend workshop 1 prior to attending workshop 2. Participants that have attended both workshops of PHASE I may attend any of the workshops in PHASE II.
Cost:
PHASE I: £440 for block booking of PHASE I (workshops 1 & 2); £240 for each individual 3 day workshop.
PHASE I: Core Skills
1. Assessment & Formulation
Assessment & Formulation is a 3 day intensive skills training workshop aimed at enabling participants to practice the skills required to conduct cognitive behavioural assessments and formulations of clinical problems.
Key skills include:
• Collection of basic information regarding the presenting problem
• Conducting a detailed incident analysis
• Conducting mental state examination
• Risk Assessment
• History taking & assessment of problem development
• Identification of specific problem targets & treatment goals
• Identification of key factors maintaining the problem
• Sharing the formulation with the client
• Selection of intervention to interrupt maintenance cycle
Additional skills include:
• Structuring of clinical sessions
• Socialisation of patients to the cognitive behavioural model
2. Core Intervention Skills
Core Intervention Skills is a 3 day workshop aimed at enabling participants to practice the Core Skills which form the ‘building blocks’ of cognitive behavioural interventions.
Key Skills include:
1. Exposure:
o ‘Selling’ the rationale for exposure to clients
o Planning exposure
o Conducting an exposure session
o Overcoming subtle forms of avoidance
o Managing distress & high levels of arousal
o Promoting new learning
o Preparing patients for self-directed exposure
2. Guided Discovery:
o Socratic questioning
o Educating clients regarding the cognitive model
o Eliciting negative automatic thoughts & key cognitions
o Scientifically examining thoughts & beliefs
o Use of thought records
o Planning and Conducting Behavioural Experiments
3. Activity Monitoring & Scheduling:
o Educating clients regarding the link between activity & mood
o Helping clients to complete mood & activity chart
o Conducting a review of mood & activity chart
o Scheduling new/alternative behaviours
o Identifying & managing obstacles
o Promoting engagement
4. Problem Solving:
o Identifying positive & negative styles of problem orientation
o Helping clients to clearly define & formulate their problems; generate alternative solutions; & implement positive solutions