Up & Coming Courses
Core skills in CBT
Date: May/June 2020 TBC .
Venue: London - venue TBC.
Cost £230 per person to include: all course materials and refreshments. Lunch not included.
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The 2-day CB Core Skills course
The two day CB core skills course has been refined over the last 15 years and delivered to over 2000 health professionals with excellent feedback.
Professionals attending this course have included physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, dieticians, nurses, social workers, audiologists, anaesthetists, and osteopaths. They have come from a wide variety of clinical areas.
This is a two day course aimed at healthcare professionals working within all specialties. Case vignettes will be used so that participants can apply the model and skills directly to their own clinical area.
By the end of the course participants will be able to use the CB model to understand potential unhelpful behaviour in patients and then be able to work with the patient to improve the efficacy of their current practice.
N.B There is a strong emphasis throughout the course on professional boundaries and as such it is necessary to point out that participants will not be ‘CBT Therapists’ or qualified to deliver ‘CBT’ after the course. They will however be able to use a CB approach within their current professional practice.
9am |
Course registration / Tea and Coffee |
9.15 |
- CBT background and evidence base
- When to use a CB approach
- CBT longitudinal model
- Professional boundaries
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10.30 |
Break |
10.50 |
- Thinking errors
- Thought challenging exercise
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12.30 |
Lunch |
13.10 |
- Vicious cycles relevant in healthcare
- Depression, health anxiety, panic disorder
- Overactivity / Underactivity cycle
- Fear avoidance cycle
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14.50 |
Break |
15.10 |
- Questioning techniques with practical
- Homework task
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16.30 |
Close |
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Welcome Back |
9am |
- Review of Day 1 - Questions
- Vignette: Stage 1 Identifying thoughts, feelings, behaviours
N.B Vignette chosen by attendees according to clinical area working within – exercise in pairs practising skills
- Vignette: Stage 2 Identifying the vicious cycle
- Methods to break vicious cycles;
1) Role of reassurance
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10.30 |
Break |
10.50 |
- 2) Use of health education (Including practical demonstration of how to explain pain to patients)
- 3) General self management skills; Motivating through goal setting and Baseline setting
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12.30 |
Lunch |
13.10 |
- Pacing (how to and practicalities)
- Relaxation
- 4) Basic graded exposure
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14.50 |
Break |
15.10 |
- 5) Vignette; Stage 3 Explaining the vicious cycle to the patient
- Vignette; Stage 4 Working out how to break the vicious cycle with the patient
- How to continue with skills develiopment post course
- Group feedback / Questions
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16.00 |
Close |

Courses in this section are suitable for health professionals that have already undergone some introductory CB training and are looking to further develop some CB skills.
Intermediate skillsThis is a one day course aimed at healthcare professionals working within all specialties. Attendees should have undergone some previous CBT training so that they understand the model and core skills.
N.B There is a strong emphasis throughout the course on professional boundaries and as such it is necessary to point out that participants will not be ‘CBT Therapists’ or qualified to deliver ‘CBT’ after the course. They will however be able to use a CB approach within their current professional practice.
Day 1
9am |
Course registration / Tea and Coffee |
9.15 |
- Depression - core strategies to teach patients to self-manage low mood, including basic suicide risk assessment
- Post-traumatic stress disorder - how to identify those at risk, and adaptations needed within on-going existing treatment by the health professional
- Questioning skills - practice of challenging unhelpful beliefs or behaviours through questioning techniques
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10.30 |
Break |
10.50 |
- Questioning skills (cont'd)
- Behavioural experiments - theory and practical
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12.30 |
Lunch |
13.10 |
- Changing unhelpful images
- Graded exposure practical
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14.50 |
Break |
15.10 |
- Graded exposure (cont'd)
- Difficult scenarios
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16.00 |
Close |
Please contact me for further details on these courses.
Fixed price/In-house training
I am often contacted to provide
'in-house' training where the host venue takes on the responsibility of running the course in return for a fixed price for my lecturing time and course materials.This option is usually the most cost effective for a site where there are 10 or more people that would like training. Maximum numbers on a course vary between 16-20 attendees depending on the level of experience. Venue requirements for running this course are a large teaching room with natural light, projection facilities, and a flipchart. Costs are typically between £2000 - £2300.If you are interested in this option then please
contact me and I will send you more details.