Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CPD Workshop: Treating Strategies for anxiety, trauma, substance misuse and challenging clients.

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John Ludgate, Ph.D. Related seminars and products

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John Ludgate, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. His practice, which involves work in both a private practice and in an outpatient psychiatric center, consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions. He is currently working at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Asheville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, obtaining a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He subsequently became Assistant Director of Training at Dr. Beck's Center.

Objectives

1. Apply evidence-based CBT techniques to multiple symptom sets.
2. Choose methods for conducting CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from most difficult clients.
3. Point out, challenge and modify dysfunctional self-talk, thoughts and core beliefs.
4. Develop case conceptualization skills for treating any DSM-5® condition.
5. Formulate the key components of CBT practice.
6. Implement rapport-building tips and tools to improve client relationships.
7. Evaluate key Behavioural activation strategies useful for alleviating treatment resistant depression.
8. Develop strategies for treating depressive relapses.
9. Implement cognitive Behavioural methods to overcome intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
10. Integrate key strategies for impulse control used to treat substance use-disorders
11. Provide exposure and cognitive processing interventions used to treat PTSD and trauma.
12. Utilize cognitive reprocessing for clients with PTSD.
13. Measure symptom management strategies for personality disorders.
14. Apply DBT skills training for borderline personality disorder.
15. Articulate the role of early maladaptive schemas in maintaining chronic conditions.
16. Utilize schema-based strategies for breaking lifelong destructive Behavioural cycles.
17. Determine eight motivations for parasuicidal behaviors and how to effectively intervene for each motivation.
18. Establish how family dynamics are affected by an individual with borderline personality disorder and discover how to improve family communication.
19. Compile suicide assessment skills and learn how to document to minimize liability.

Target Audience

• Psychotherapists 
• Counsellors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers 
• Mental Health Workers
• Psychiatrists

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