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Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression & Anxiety


Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.

Categories:
Anxiety |  Cognitive Behavioral Therapies |  Depression
Faculty:
John Ludgate, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour 52 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Jan 08, 2016
SKU:
POS046505
Media Type:
Online Learning


Description

  • Effective strategies for relapsing clients
  • Advanced & cutting-edge CBT techniques
  • Case examples

Join CBT expert and author, John Ludgate, Ph.D., and learn advanced CBT techniques to treat chronic or recurring depression and anxiety. Clients with a high relapse potential or chronic depression and anxiety are very complex and challenging to treat, and Dr. Ludgate will teach you special augmented CBT strategies which can easily be incorporated into your everyday practice.

This program will address state-of-art interventions and adaptations in CBT for complex cases and will focus on client, therapist and therapy factors which can interfere with therapy’s effectiveness. Specifically, a model will be offered which helps to formulate from a cognitive behavioral perspective the factors involved in chronicity or in the process of relapse. Assessment and conceptualization skills which can aid treatment planning will be examined. Interventions which target chronic and recurrent problems will be described in detail with case examples.

CEUs


General Credits

This course is available for 1.75 total CPDs

The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa. 

As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.


Florida Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 2.0 continuing education credits. 



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John Ludgate, PhD's Profile

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Licensed Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Private Practice


John Ludgate, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He subsequently became assistant director of training at Dr. Beck’s Center. His current practice consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Ashville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a research clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

He authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). His other books include Overcoming Compassion Fatigue (PESI, 2014 co-authored with Martha Teater) and The CBT Couples Toolbox (PESI, 2018). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. John Ludgate is the owner and President of CBT Training & Consultancy, Inc. He has an employment relationship with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Ludgate receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. John Ludgate is a member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Other Professions

Objectives

  1. Summarize factors that are predictive of chronicity and recurrence in depression and anxiety disorders, along with the clinical implications.
  2. Incorporate CBT intervention skills when treating clients with chronic or recurring depression to improve treatment outcomes.
  3. Choose specific CBT interventions to improve clinical outcomes for clients with chronic and recurrent anxiety.

Outline

Defining chronicity and recurrence in Depression & Anxiety disorders
  • Factors predictive of chronicity and recurrence with clinical practice implications
  • Important skills every clinician needs for working with this population
  • CBT conceptualization: current and historical formulation
Effective Strategies & Interventions for Chronic Anxiety
  • Enhanced standard CBT procedures (de-catastrophizing, worry control, relaxation)
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Meta cognitive approaches
  • Increasing tolerance for uncertainty
  • Relapse Prevention Strategies & Interventions for Recurrent Anxiety
    • Self-directed CBT aimed at early detection and intervention
    • Mindfulness
    • Vulnerability reduction
Effective Strategies & Interventions for Chronic Depression
  • Enhanced behavioral activation
  • Schema modification
  • Cognitive behavioral analytic psychotherapy strategies
  • Facilitating self compassion
  • Relapse Prevention Strategies & Interventions for Recurrent Depression
    • Self-directed CBT aimed at early detection and intervention
    • Mindfulness
    • Life style modification
Self-directed CBT for the therapist
  • Strategies to manage our reactions when dealing with chronic or relapsing clients
    1. Dealing with therapist dysfunctional beliefs
    2. Mindfulness, acceptance and compassionate approaches for the therapist

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