Advanced Experiential CBT Techniques: Enhanced Conceptualization & Body-Based Techniques

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Matis Miller, LCSW, ACT, DBT-LBC Related seminars and products

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Matis Miller, LCSW, ACT, DBT-LBC, is a licensed clinical social worker and certified cognitive behavioral therapist with 18 years of experience specializing in severe emotional and personality disorder, complex PTSD, anxiety in teens and adults, and parent training. He is the founder, director, and supervisor of the Center for Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy of New Jersey. Matis’ impressive educational and training background includes certification in CBT from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, certification from the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and is EMDR trained.

Matis’ experience in CBT, DBT, and schema therapy compelled him to found the Center and select the finest therapists to complete his team. He is a seasoned lecturer on CBT and DBT-related topics, addressing parents, clients, and professionals, and is focused primarily on supervision, education, and consultations. Matis is the author of the popular book, The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Skills (New Harbinger Publications, 2021).
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Matis Miller has an employment relationship with The Center for CBT of NJ. He receives royalties as a published author. Matis Miller receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Matis Miller has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Develop comprehensive conceptualization of client’s presenting problems based on the cognitive model.
2. Apply and integrate the cognitive conceptualization diagram collaboratively into treatment sessions.
3. Utilize evidence-based techniques to uncover and label clients underlying negative core beliefs and conditional assumptions.
4. Implement a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies to modify underlying core beliefs, rules, and assumptions to improve treatment outcomes.
5. Execute strategies to identify, develop, and strengthen positive core beliefs in clients.
6. Employ experiential interventions such as imagery, chair technique, and role-plays to create long-lasting emotional change to improve client outcomes.

Outline

• CBT model & most practiced techniques
• When is deeper CBT work needed?
• Setting-up and structuring sessions
• Debunking CBT myths
• Latest CBT research

• Advanced core beliefs and schemas
• Clinical questionnaires: Identifying core beliefs and schemas
• Cognitive continuum for irrational beliefs
• “Pac man model” for developing adaptive beliefs and habits
• Overcoming compensatory strategies (avoidance, control, etc.)
• The “Downward Arrow Technique” for negative core beliefs
• The “Upward Arrow Technique” for positive core beliefs
• Strengths work for lasting change
• Transcending schemas questionaire
• Schema flash cards for connecting schemas
• Re-framing core beliefs worksheet
• Case Study: A father with deeply rooted self-criticism

• Behavioral experiments
• Role plays and Gestalt-based techniques
• Imagery dialogues with experiences in early development
• Adaptive belief systems
• EMDR-rooted approaches
• Case Study: A woman suffering from severe anxiety. Exposure therapy is not working

• Clinical outcomes of collaborative case conceptualization
• Judy Beck’s Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram
• When and how to share case conceptualization with clients
• Guidelines for developing conceptualization
• Guidelines for collaborative conceptualization
• Case Study: Young adult struggling with rejection sensitivity

• Limitations & scope of practice
• Overcoming reasons people don’t change
• Overcoming fear of new perspectives

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Other Mental Health Professionals