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Are you a health professional with an interest in mindfulness, acceptance, or behaviour change? Are you interested in dipping a toe in the water to see if this approach fits with your practice? Then this workshop is for you.

ACT is a unique transdiagnostic psychological intervention that comes from the contextual behavioural science tradition. ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. It is concerned with helping individuals identify what is important to them and taking committed action in order that their behaviour is more consistent with their values. 

Rather than focussing on reducing symptoms or changing thoughts, ACT promotes skills that help people to  develop a more helpful relationship with their inner experience. It is rapidly developing a wide-ranging evidence base across numerous areas of clinical practice, with over 1000 peer-reviewed randomised controlled trials, and over 350 meta-analyses and systematic reviews. It has been shown to produce either equivalent or more effective outcomes when compared to other models of therapy.

Based on a wealth of research and literature from behavioural science, this workshop is designed for therapists working in physical/mental health care who want to enhance and develop their practice by developing skills in acceptance, mindfulness, and values procedures.

Through participation in this workshop, you will:

  • Understand the key concepts of ACT’s psychological flexibility model and the underlying science of relational frame theory
  • Develop a toolkit of acceptance and defusion techniques to work with difficult thoughts and feelings
  • Use mindfulness skills to help clients connect with present moment erxperiences
  • Engage clients in clarifying their values with a view to enacting purposeful behavioural change

The workshop will be highly interactive, involving a variety of methods including didactic teaching, experiential exercises, group work, and live/video demonstrations of therapeutic interventions. There is a strong emphasis on experiential learning and applying ACT concepts and techniques to oneself, therefore delegates should expect to engage in some personal, as well as professional, development. Participation in experiential exercises is an invitation, rather than an expectation.

Previous feedback for this workshop

“An excellent introduction to ACT and how to start implementing it in practice….great use of metaphors to explain things to us but also to use with clients”

“Fantastic.  The best CPD I’ve done in a long time.  Paced exceptionally wall and resonsive to the needs of the audience.”

​”It really exceeded my expectations – just beautifully paced.”  

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Although death anxiety can be associated with the development of productive coping strategies (e.g. seeking achievement, extending the self through family and relationships), it may also drive crippling fear and maladaptive coping mechanisms. As such, it has been argued that the dread of death is a transdiagnostic construct with the potential to underpin a range of mental health problems including panic disorder, illness anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, OCD, the specific and social phobias, separation anxiety disorder, PTSD and depression.

​If the dread of death is at the heart of various clinical presentations, treatment approaches which explicitly address these existential fears may be necessary. Conventional treatments which fail to target death anxiety may result in a ‘revolving door’ of individuals presenting with a shifting array of mental illnesses across their lifespan. Notably, recent research has reported relationships between fear of death and various markers of clinical severity, including overall distress, number of lifetime diagnoses and number of hospitalisations. This workshop will present a variety of innovative procedures to manage death anxiety that can be used in conjunction with standard CBT to provide a more comprehensive treatment of a range of mental health disorders.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Everyone experiences unpleasant emotions, but not everyone develops GAD, PTSD, Major Depression or a psychological disorder. Emotional Schema Therapy is an integrative, social cognitive model that proposes that problems arise as a result of evaluations, interpretations, and predictions about emotional experience that result in problematic coping strategies. For example, an adaptive interpretation of sadness and anger after a breakup would include normalizing the emotion, viewing the emotion as temporary, relating the emotion to values of intimacy, and validating one’s own experience. However, our research shows that depression, anxiety, worry, rumination, avoidance, and indecisiveness are the result of viewing one’s emotions as lasting indefinitely, out of control, abnormal, shameful, incomprehensible and unacceptable. These beliefs result in unhelpful emotion regulation strategies that perpetuate the negative beliefs about one’s emotions. In this workshop we will cover the fundamental Emotional Schema Therapy Model, techniques and conceptualisations that address the major dysfunctional emotional schemas, experiential and cognitive techniques to cope with emotional experience, and methods to enhance emotional enrichment, differentiation and emotional intelligence. This will include discussion of Emotional Perfectionism, Existential Perfectionism, “Pure Mind”, Intolerance of Ambivalence, Constructive Discomfort, Successful Imperfection, and Personal Empowerment. In addition, we will discuss how an Emotional Schema conceptualization can assist in understanding how emotional socialization, current beliefs about emotion, and current unhelpful strategies often limit the individual in developing a fully enriched life.

​All of the psychological disorders involve difficulties in tolerating or experiencing emotion. The Emotional Schema Model can assist CBT practitioners in assisting clients in enriching their emotional experience, learning from their emotions, relating their emotions to their values, and developing productive strategies for coping with emotions.

​All of the psychological disorders involve difficulties in tolerating or experiencing emotion. The Emotional Schema Model can assist CBT practitioners in assisting clients in enriching their emotional experience, learning from their emotions, relating their emotions to their values, and developing productive strategies for coping with emotions.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Cognitive behaviour therapists have always recognised that many of our dispositions for certain kind of goals and motives (to avoid harm, to connect with others, develop attachment relations with the young and partners) along with our emotions and ways of thinking, are rooted in evolved mechanisms (Beck 1983; Beck et al., 1985, Marks 1987). This CBT workshop will outline how the evolution of attachment and other prosocial motives and behaviours created brain processes that are central to the regulation of emotion, and prosocial versus antisocial behaviour. The workshop will give a brief overview of CFT and how attachment concepts including proximity maintenance, secure base and safe haven underpin the development of a compassionate mind.   We will also explore the way these three elements support clients’ capacity for differentiating different emotions tolerating and integrating different emotions. We will discuss some of the central practices of CFT, which are designed to stimulate these internal physiological systems and create a compassionate mind. Developing a compassionate mind and that self-identity then becomes a central therapeutic aim that is used to address difficulties such as self-criticism, shame, and trauma.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Behavioural activation (BA), in some form, has been used by cognitive-behaviour therapists for decades.  Although activity diaries and pleasant events scheduling have a long history, BA as a full treatment that targets avoidance behaviour and ruminative thinking patterns has a more recent history.  Research has demonstrated efficacy of BA used with depressed clients, in PTSD treatment, and with clients living with co-occurring mental health problems and physical illnesses.

This workshop will look at BA as a treatment approach that has transdiagnostic value.  Helping clients to re-engage in their lives, approach rather than avoid distressing feelings and events, and actively solve problems rather than brood about them are strategies addressing common maintaining factors in a variety of psychological disorders.  This workshop is geared to clinicians who have experience with CBT, and is intended to focus on both theoretical and practical implications.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Those who have experienced interpersonal trauma often experience self- blame, self- loathing, lack of trust, interpersonal difficulties, struggles to regulate threat-based emotions, flashbacks, avoidance and disconnection are prevalent issues to be addressed in therapy.  These difficulties are often described as Complex PTSD and at the heart of the distress are fragmented shame fuelled flashbacks/ trauma memories which are maintained by self-attacking thoughts/ self-blame and further perpetuate distress. Evidence based practice such a trauma focused CBT can sometime feel less effective with shame based trauma presentations, where clients report a ‘heart-head’ lag; they don’t feel on an emotional level what they know on an intellectual level(Lee, 2005). Furthermore emerging research demonstrates that experiences of shame and self-criticism respond less well to more traditional CBT approaches (Gilbert, 2009) but benefit more from compassion focused approaches (Kirby,Tellegen & Steindl, 2017, Beaumont, E).  These findings, as well as clinical developments in treating shame based trauma and Complex PSTD have emphasised the need to develop compassionate minds as an antidote to shame based states and moreover to bring into shame based memories, a felt sense of compassion (Lee, 2013).

The focus of this workshop will be to explore how to bring compassion to shame- based flashbacks memories as well as learn how to develop compassionate antidotes to shame based trauma narratives, in order to promote recovery and resolution from distressing symptoms of PTSD and Complex PTSD. The approach builds on evidence based practice such as trauma focused CBT (Ehlers & Clarke 2000) and Imagery Recripting (Arntz, 2012)

Compassion focused therapy was developed by Professor Paul Gilbert. The explicit goal is to develop, access and stimulate positive affect associated with self-soothing in the mind and body of the patient in order to promote an inner sense of psychological safeness (Gilbert, 2005, 2009).

This workshop will look at BA as a treatment approach that has transdiagnostic value. Helping clients to re-engage in their lives, approach rather than avoid distressing feelings and events, and actively solve problems rather than brood about them are strategies addressing common maintaining factors in a variety of psychological disorders. This workshop is geared to clinicians who have experience with CBT, and is intended to focus on both theoretical and practical implications.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Negative images of the self are at the core of all current cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (Clark &Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1999,; Hofmann, 2007; Moscovitch, 2009). Within current protocols, treatments for these negative images include video feedback and behavioural experiments, both of which aim at helping people to develop a realistic view of how they appear to others. However, negative views of self are not limited to other people’s judgments and they can be entrenched and hard to change.  In general, negative self-images derive from experiences such as neglect, abuse, bullying, and abandonment (Hinrichsen, Morrison,Waller, & Schmidt, 2007; Patel, Brewin, Wheatley, Wells, & Myers, 2007; Wells & Hackmann, 1993). The images then help to maintain a vicious cycle of self-criticism, behavioral change (e.g.,avoidance, withdrawal), and disturbing physiological and emotional responses. In social anxiety disorder, negative self-images often drive a range of specific safety behaviours, such as intense self-monitoring and internal rehearsal of thoughts/behaviours, together with self-focused attention, all of which can significantly interfere with social performance.

​There is growing evidence that imagery rescripting helps people to re-evaluate and change negative views of self across a range of disorders including social anxiety disorder  (Morina, Lancee, & Arntz, 2017; Stopa, 2011; Wild, Hackmann, & Clark, 2007, 2008). There is also experimental evidence that positive images of the self derived from autobiographical memories can produce short term reductions in social anxiety, improve actual and perceived social performance and enhance self-esteem (Stopa, Brown, & Hirsch, 2012; Ng, Abbott, & Hunt, 2014). In this workshop, we will look at imagery rescripting, consider the evidence for its efficacy, and learn how to apply it in the treatment of an individual with social anxiety disorder. We will consider current hypotheses about the potential mechanisms of change that might underlie imagery rescripting’s effectiveness. We will also cover how to access positive images through autobiographical memories and incorporate this into current treatments

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to cognitive processing therapy (CPT) protocols for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  The workshop begins with a functional description of why some people do not recover from trauma and why comorbid symptoms develop along with their PTSD.  Cognitive and biological theories will be introduced to describe why cognitive therapy reduces PTSD symptoms.  Participants will learn first about the standard 12-session therapy, session by session along with a variable-length version of the protocol. CPT is a very systematic approach to treating PTSD in which participants learn to think about their traumatic events differently and learn the skill of more balanced thinking generally. This workshop includes videotaped examples of the therapy.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Treatment failure is common. All clinicians, even the most skilled, encounter it. Dr. Persons will offer strategies that can help therapists prevent treatment failure, identify it early, work collaboratively with the patient to overcome failure, and accept treatment failure and handle it in a professional manner when efforts to overcome it fail.
To help therapists identify treatment failure early, Dr. Persons will present case examples that illustrate the importance of collecting data to monitor the patient’s progress and review it with the patient at every session. She will teach skills for conducting a collaborative discussion with the patient about lack of progress, and for systematically developing hypotheses about the lack of progress. These hypotheses—and the collaborative process of developing them–can lead to interventions that turn a failing therapy into a successful one. Dr. Persons presents many case examples of her own failures, some of which she overcame, video role play demonstrations, and will lead participants in practice exercises. She asks participants to bring at least one example of a patient who is not making progress in therapy to work on during the workshop. She will walk you through a structured exercise to help you develop hypotheses about the causes of the treatment failure that can help you devise strategies to overcome it.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Contamination is one of the most common fears in OCD. About 1/3rd of people with OCD will have co-morbid depression. A common process in contamination is that of ‘contagion’ or transfer. It can include mental contamination where the source is usually inside the body or all-over dirtiness or polluting thoughts about sex, violence, or blasphemy. Contamination is associated with avoidance behaviour, compulsive washing, checking and mental rituals. The motivation to prevent contamination may be to prevent harm, losing control or to avoid feelings of disgust.

Newer developments In CBT include the role of inhibitory learning in exposure and how this overlap with behavioural experiments and understanding of the problem by testing Theory A / Theory B. Exposure in contamination includes transfer of the “contaminants” and spoiling of compulsions such as washing.  Special consideration in therapy is required for intrusive sexual and violent images. Newer treatment interventions include imagery rescripting for aversive memories and concurrent treatment for depression (for example improving sleep, diet, exercise, social activity and reducing shame).  

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Cognitive behavioural couple therapy (CBCT) is the most well researched approach to assisting couples who are experiencing relationship distress. A large number of treatment trials concur in demonstrating its efficacy in improving relationship satisfaction, along with a number of central relationship factors such as communication.

Professor Don Baucom is one of the developers of CBCT and has been actively in the field for over four decades. He and Dr. Melanie Fischer have been working together for more than a decade, continuing to develop the research base, clinical application, and dissemination of CBCT. They have given workshops to practicing clinicians in multiple countries on how to implement CBCT in a variety of settings. As practicing clinicians themselves, they are aware of the nuances of clinical practice, along with what we know works and does not work in assisting couples from a research perspective.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Recently there has been a rise of interest in bringing Compassion focused practices to the workplace in order to improve team functioning and wellbeing.  The concept of compassionate leadership brings leadership into every grade and domain in the workplace so that regardless of grade or seniority compassionate leadership is everyone’s business. Over the last three years, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has developed and rolled out a compassionate leadership programme and has trained over 1500 of its staff, integrated it into its excellent managers programme and made it part of new starters induction.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) was developed with and for people who have significant problems with shame and self-criticism often linked to difficult early life backgrounds. This workshop will guide participants to distinguish between shame-based self-criticism (self-attacking) from compassion focused self-correction. The workshop will cover an evolutionary understanding of the origins of self-criticism, the different forms and functions of self-criticism and their links to shame.

​The workshop will look at the underlying fears behind self-criticism, how they differ from guilt and how to address them. Individuals will be invited to take part in a personal functional analysis of self-criticism which provides a framework for working with self-criticism and shame. The workshop will also briefly outline ways of cultivating our inner motives for caring and compassion which are major antidotes to shame based self-criticism.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Pre the Covid-19 pandemic around 5.1 million people die in Europe every year, leaving behind many close loved ones. Research reveals that approximately 7 to 14% of bereaved people will struggle to adapt to their loss, resulting in 357,000 to 714,000 new cases of persistent complex grief disorder.The pandemic has dramatically increased these numbers leading to loss of loved ones in the most unusual circumstances. Disasters with mass casualties generally result in higher levels of PG symptoms among bereaved survivors and Prolonged Grief symptoms are typically elevated when deaths are unexpected, traditional grief rituals are absent and social support is unavailable.

In this CBT workshop, you will learn how to apply trauma-focused techniques for PTSD to traumatic and complex grief and how to adapt these techniques to treat loss-related memories, linked images and appraisals. Participants will learn how to distinguish complex grief from PTSD and Depression, how to work with triggers, memories, images, appraisals and common maintaining strategies (e.g., rumination) associated with traumatic/complex grief.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

While we have known about the role of threat in anxiety for many years, the role of uncertainty has only gradually emerged as an equally important contributor.  Although anxiety and worry are important and frequent, people also respond to uncertainty with frustration, anger, guilt, as well as loss and anticipated loss and sadness.

Bringing together three established models, this CBT workshop will provide a framework to think about the contributions of threat and uncertainty to distress.  First, the classic cognitive model of anxiety helps us understand the roles of actual threat and overestimation of threat. Second, the model of perceived uncertainty developed in the context of long-term illness helps understand how actual uncertainty can become inflated through various perceptual processes and behaviours. Third, current models of intolerance of uncertainty help us understand how disruption due to changes in peoples’ lives leads to increased perceptions of both threat and uncertainty.  While the dominant point of reference has been the pandemic, the model is also relevant to any situation with elements of threat and uncertainty, including serious illness, caregiving in conditions like dementia, vaccines, long covid and climate change. While the sources of threat and uncertainty will differ in content, the processes will remain the same.  So, uncertainty can be experienced both individually and collectively, and the model can help us understand both.

The earlier part of the workshop will cover the interventions from our workshops in the first nine months of the pandemic that can help reduce the distress by decreasing perceptions of threat and especially uncertainty.  Early interventions include managing information and building safety to counter the disruption and information overload associated with the pandemic.  Then some of the classic anxiety interventions can be used to target overestimation of threat, although in real-world situations the distress may be proportionate rather than excessive as in clinical anxiety. Finally, interventions recently developed for intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety disorders can help produce greater resilience.

​The latter part of the workshop will address some newer ideas we have been considering more and more through 2021 and which we think will still be relevant in 2022 and beyond.  Although the pandemic will have moved on and the disruption will probably be less, we will still be dealing with disrupted timelines and a growing realization that although life may be more like it was before, life remains fundamentally uncertain.  Helping people re-establish timelines from past, to present, to future and engaging in goal directed behaviour in the face of ongoing uncertainty will be important therapeutic tasks. Likewise, we are understanding more and more how organizations, systems and teams contribute to both increasing and decreasing uncertainty by the way they behave and communicate.  Finally, for those who willingly or unwillingly have made friends with uncertainty during the pandemic, helping them stay friends with uncertainty as they move forward will be an important therapeutic task in many situations.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

This CBT workshop focuses on the use of in-sensu and in-vivo exposure in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. At the centre of the intervention are the excessive worries patients with GAD suffer from. Worrying seems to be a special way of experiential avoidance. Patients with GAD suffer from a strong intolerance of intense emotions,  eliciting the worry process to down regulate them. Worry exposure is targeting those feared emotions.

In this CBT workshop, background will be given on GAD and its diagnosis, as well as a more in-depth look at the worry process. Furthermore, details will be given on how patients can be motivated to participate in exposure treatment, and how the exposure is conducted. Exposure in-vivo is accompanying in-sensu exposure interventions in GAD. Here some options will be demonstrated to target the worries directly, in addition to overcoming safety behaviours. Possible exercises will be discussed and exposure plans will be designed. Exposure treatment can be a very effective way to treat GAD, if the specific characteristics of GAD are taken into account.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Many of us instinctively compare ourselves to others and when we fail to reach our own, family’s, community’s or society’s ‘ideals’  we can feel inadequate, experience anxiety and low mood. We may attempt to motivate ourselves to ‘be better’ by being self critical and only show the sides of us we think are ‘acceptable’.  

Working to improve ‘self-esteem’ can be helpful but, when life throws another curveball, the benefits can be short lived.  In contrast focusing on and cultivating compassion can help us when things are going well and make us more resilient when things are difficult.

This workshop uses the ideas and practices of Compassion Focused Therapy to help build a a version of ourselves that’s more robust, more authentic and more connected. Of course the best time to cultivate a compassionate approach to ourselves, and others, is in childhood so this workshop will aim to be of use to those working with children and adolescents.  However the principles and practices have no ‘cut off’ so they can be of use whatever age you are and for whatever age group you work with.  After all, no matter what our age, we’re all ‘work in progress’. 

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

This is collection of 4 webinars (as listed below) into one set, and making a full 6 hours of CPD. You can access each component using the navigation panel once enrolled. 

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£88

A short form webinar (1.5 hours), that is part 1 of 4 for the CBT for Adolescent Development series (also available as a collection)

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

A short form webinar (1.5 hours), that is part 2 of 4 for the CBT for Adolescent Development series (also available as a collection)

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

A short form webinar (1.5 hours), that is part 3 of 4 for the CBT for Adolescent Development series (also available as a collection)

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

A short form webinar (1.5 hours), that is part 4 of 4 for the CBT for Adolescent Development series (also available as a collection)

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

Almost 50% of young people who are offered conventional psychological treatment for depressed adolescents either do not attend or drop out prematurely.  It is therefore urgent that we develop treatment that young people will use. We adapted Behavioural Activation (BA) (Lejuez, et al., 2011) for young people, in collaboration with young people and their families.  Our aim was to make it brief (6-8 sessions), simple, engaging and effective. Brief BA (Pass & Reynolds, 2014) can be used in schools and clinics and delivered by a range of professionals, who do not require specialist qualifications or extensive training. 

Key elements of Brief BA for adolescents include:

  • A focus on engaging young people in BA
  • Scaffolding therapy based on developmental/cognitive constraints
  • Involvement of parents/carers
  • Focus on identifying young people’s values
  • Problem solving and contracting, with parental involvement
  • Session by session workbooks for young people and their parents

Brief BA involves 6-8 weekly sessions of up to 1 hour, and a 30 minute review session one month later. Brief BA is simple to explain, easy to understand and reasonably straightforward to incorporate into an adolescent’s life.  Our data show that engagement in treatment is excellent, that Brief BA is acceptable to young people, parents and school staff, and leads to reduced depression symptoms and improved functioning in most young people (Pass, Lejuez, & Reynolds, 2017; Pass et al., 2018). 

This workshop will demonstrate how Brief BA is used with adolescents who are experiencing clinically significant depressive symptoms.  It will focus particularly on how to engage young people in treatment, how to identify their values and link values to activities, and how to work with parents and young people as well as relevant others including school staff.  Case examples will be used to highlight specific challenges and techniques.   

Training modalities

This CBT workshop will be very practically based. Brief BA will be taught through instruction, group discussion, Q&A, modelling through case examples and video clips

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Chairwork refers to a collection of experiential methods which use chairs, movement, positioning, and dialogue to bring about change. Since its development over one century ago, chairwork has gained a reputation for being one of the most powerful and versatile methods of intervention in psychotherapy. In CBT, chairwork is an effective way to generate heart-level belief change, shift entrenched cognitions, and develop new behavioural skills. As such, it represents a valuable addition to therapists’ toolkit.  

In this experiential and practice-focused workshop, therapists will be introduced to the core chairwork techniques which are utilised in CBT. Using a combination of group discussion, self-practice exercises, and live demonstrations, participants will have the opportunity to observe and experience chairwork from the inside-out. Ways of overcoming common obstacles in cognitive behavioural chairwork and adapting these techniques online therapy will also be explored.  

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Behavioural experiments are one of the most powerful means to cognitive change. They are now used in all contempory CBT approaches. This workshop will help participants use behavioural experiments most effectively with their clients. It will describe when to and how best to set the cognitive platform for behavioural experiments. There will be video examples of behavioural experiments both inside and outside the therapy office. There will be opportunity for participants to reflect on their own work and to discuss how to overcome obstacles to the effective use of behavioural experiments, including remote delivery of therapy.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Treatment for fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is the leading unmet need of cancer survivors. In the past decade, there have been clear strategic attempts to better understand the mechanisms that lead some survivors to experience clinically significant FCR and to develop efficacious treatments for managing this understandable fear. Conquer Fear was a treatment developed to manage FCR in early stage cancer survivors who had been treated with curative intent and demonstrated high levels of FCR. Conquer fear draws from acceptance commitment therapy, meta-cognitive therapy and behavioural strategies. Conquer Fear was shown in a large randomized controlled trial to be superior to relaxation training in reducing FCR. Increasingly, it is clear that cancer is not the only illness where people fear a recurrence or progression of their illness and our recent work has suggested that fear of progression is surprisingly similar across other illnesses and strongly associated with depression, anxiety and poor quality of life.

This workshop will describe a model of fear of cancer recurrence, and examine the evidence that fear of progression is a transdiagnostic construct amongst those with chronic physical illness. From that theoretical position, the Conquer Fear program will be described. This workshop will outline ways to help patients to be able to think about their future with uncertainty and live a life that has meaning and value to them. Strategies from metacognitive therapy, that examine whether worry is helpful, harmful or controllable specifically in the context of FCR will be explored. Response prevention for checking behaviours and bodily monitoring will be described and demonstrated. Lessons from the FCR literature for working with other illnesses in which fear of progression is an often neglected concern will be described. The Conquer Fear manual will be made available to participants of the workshop.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Cognitive therapy for PTSD is a highly effective treatment, but aspects of clinical complexity can complicate treatment and limit its effectiveness in everyday practice. Working clinically with complicated PTSD can also be daunting for therapists. We may struggle to know where to start, spending many sessions on assessment or stabilisation.  Or we may lose course mid-way, finding ourselves veering between different problems and interventions, and drifting from evidence-based models and techniques. Yet recent evidence suggests that even the most complicated PTSD presentations can be treated in a relatively short timeframes, as long as our interventions are well-targeted and we hold fast to key principles.

The workshop will give you an overview of the most up-to-date evidence for treating PTSD using CBT, and what it tells us about navigating complexity.

The workshop will cover how to:

  • Conceptualise complexity in PTSD presentations
  • Generate treatment targets and priorities based on mapping the underlying processes
  • Develop and deliver modularised treatment plans
  • Supercharge your therapy with the latest evidence-based techniques.
  • Address issues such as comorbidity, multiple trauma memories, and risky behaviours
  • Navigate complications, avoid drift and stay on course with treatment.

Using detailed clinical vignettes, we will discuss how to plan and deliver treatment efficiently with complicated PTSD presentations. Participants will have the opportunity to watch clips of key skills, practice developing treatment plans and reflect on their own cases.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Body image dissatisfaction and body size overestimation are central to understanding and treating eating disorders, though the treatment needs to address other issues first (particularly correcting eating issues). The same therapy methods can also be used in other disorders (especially body dysmorphic disorder), prevention work, and in working with non-clinical individuals.

The workshop will outline evidence-based approaches to CBT for body image in eating disorders. It will address the wide range of factors that drive and maintain negative body image, leading to using effective methods of addressing the maintenance of this aspect of eating disorders. Given the evidence on what is needed for sustained changes, the workshop will stress the critical importance of making these changes, to ensure that the risk of relapse is reduced.

The focus will be on:

  1. Formulating body image disturbance in the context of eating disorders

  2. Identifying individual maintaining factors

  3. Using key CBT skills to improve body image acceptance, and to maintain gains

  4. Ensuring that clinicians deliver these skills, even when we are anxious about doing so

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Approximately 500,000 people die in the UK every year, leaving behind 5 very close loved ones.  When the death is sudden and traumatic, risk for developing PTSD and prolonged grief disorder is increased.  Distressing images of the person may repeatedly come to mind and trigger intense sadness and yearning.  The images may be snapshots of the moments of death, painful points during an illness, or suffering the person may have experienced or the patient perceives them to have experienced. The images maintain distress because they link to worst meanings related to permanent change, continued suffering or loneliness, which are difficult to update in the context of repeated re-experiencing.  The persistent images block the capacity to recall memories of the deceased before they died and as such, prevent the loss memory from being more fully integrated with autobiographical memories.  When the images are in mind, patients feel as though they are losing their loved one all over again.  Transforming the distressing images is one of the core components of interventions used in trauma-focused cognitive therapy for PTSD to update the trauma memory and linked appraisals.  The aim of imagery transformation is to create a sense of continuity so that the patient can move forward with their grief, update appraisals linked to continued suffering, and update the trauma memory so that it becomes less threatening.  Imagery transformation used in CT-PTSD for traumatic bereavement is associated with high rates of recovery, is often described as life-changing, supports natural grieving, and can be adapted for remote delivery during pandemic working.

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

  • Recognise what imagery transformation is, why it is important, how to incorporate it within PTSD and grief treatments and when
  • Identify core cognitive themes linked to loss trauma and ways of working with them
  • Describe ways of integrating updated meanings into traumatic loss memories
  • Describe steps in transforming images of loss and permanent change
  • Overcome obstacles to transforming loss images
  • Identify ways of adapting procedures to working remotely

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Process-based CBT is a radical departure from the latent disease model of the DSM and ICD with its absurd proliferation of the protocols-for-syndrome approach. Instead, Process-based CBT focuses on how to best target and change core biopsychosocial processes in a specific situation for given goals with a given client. This approach recognizes that psychotherapy typically involves non-linear (rather than linear), bidirectional (rather than unidirectional), and dynamic changes of many (rather than only a few) interconnected variables. Effective therapy changes the entire system toward a stable and adaptive state by enhancing context-specific variability, selection and retention of biopsychosocial processes. Process-based CBT is, therefore, grounded in evolutionary science. For therapy to be most effective, we, therefore, need to embrace a systematic, assessment-guided, and theory-based approach to understand the relationships of the various problems of a given client. Functional analysis, the foundation of behavior therapy, provides the basis to understand these relationships. Process-based CBT acknowledges the complexity, inter-relatedness, and multidimensional levels of the problems in a given client. This workshop will illustrate how PBT is used to target key treatment processes by combining functional analysis with a dynamic and person-specific network approach.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Compassion focused therapy is rooted in an evolution informed biopsychosocial  approach to understanding of the origins of our mental functions. It explores the way motives, emotions, competencies and behaviours are the source of mental health difficulties. In particular competitive self-focused motives can underpin a variety of mental health difficulties, including harsh self-criticism shame, loneliness depression and narcissism whereas caring and compassion motives tend to facilitate prosocial behaviour and well-being. Experiencing caring, particularly but not only in early life, is linked to various psychophysiological processes that are important for emotion and self-regulation. Difficulties in the early attachment process can compromise emotion and self-regulation. CFT helps clients to harness the psychophysiological processes of the care motivational system as a framework for the therapeutic processes. This workshop introduces some of the basic processes of compassion and how to use them therapeutically

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Depression is often difficult to treat; it’s a recurrent disorder and many clients have lapses or relapses after making therapeutic gains.  This is particularly true when clinical complexity is high, for example, when clients have adverse childhood experiences, co-morbidities, interpersonal problems and/or heightened risk.   

For all clients, depression can get in the way of its own treatment.  For example, CBT is unlikely to be fully delivered, or received, when clients: 

  • are passive in the therapeutic relationship;  
  • are having therapy to please someone else; 
  • go through the motions rather than engage in activities or experiments; 
  • ruminate about thoughts rather than reflect on them and test them out 

This webinar series will explore four common types of difficulty with two combined aims:  

Increase understanding of the client’s experience within the difficulty;  

Consider different therapeutic strategies and responses.   

The series will explore interpersonal, motivational, behavioural and cognitive factors, and the overarching message is that difficulties need to be understood and tackled pro-actively to stop them becoming therapeutic tensions and barriers to change. Video demonstrations will be used throughout to illustrate different therapeutic strategies. 

 

 

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£88

Part 1: Building an alliance that works

​A good-enough working alliance is essential for CBT to be effective.  This webinar will explore some of the interpersonal consequences of depression, such as keeping people at a distance, giving others responsibility, or excessive re-assurance seeking.  Without an appropriate therapeutic response, these can become barriers to collaboration.  Therapists need to adjust their interpersonal style accordingly, based on client need, optimizing the balance of support and change in different situations.  This can mean acting against the interpersonal ‘pull’ of the client, sometimes risking the alliance rather than protecting it at all costs.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

Part 2: Overcoming problems with motivation

​Depression impairs motivation but it’s not always as simple as having less energy or feeling un-motivated.  Some motivational impulses are stronger in depression, for example, the urge to avoid tasks, to hide from others or to follow internal ‘shoulds, oughts and musts’.  Conflicting motivational states are common. This webinar will explore ways of helping your client reflect on their motivation and learn more about it.  The aim is to strengthen approach impulses, the urges that provoke goal-directed activity. For some clients, activating behaviour is sufficient to build motivation, but for others their self-identity and life-goals need to be engaged more explicitly.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

Part 3: Getting more out of behavioural experiments

Most experiments with depressed clients elicit their predictions and wait to see if the outcomes are as negative as expected. This can be a powerful source of cognitive change, but it is only one approach.  It relies on disconfirmation: that events will be less negative than the client predicts.  An alternative approach relies on confirmation, encouraging the client to influence preferred outcomes.  When this is effective, clients learn that they can influence what they would like to happen.  This webinar will explore the pros and cons of testing predictions versus influencing preferences, with the aim is to increase the range of therapeutic options available to therapists.

 

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

Part 4: Overcoming rumination with mental freedom

Traditional cognitive therapy targets thought-content: what the client believes and how strongly they believe it.  But depressed clients don’t just believe negative thoughts; they engage in unhelpful thought-cycles about them, sometimes called rumination.  Rumination maintains depression and is a barrier to paying attention, processing information in depth and creating new memories.  It impedes the learning needed for CBT to work. Mental freedom is a meta-cognitive approach: it explores the client’s relationship with their mind. Instead of challenging thoughts and beliefs, it seeks to maximise self-mind co-operation.  In practice, this means conducting experiments across a range of cognitive processes to find out what works best in different situations.  When mental freedom increases, rumination and other unhelpful processes decrease.

 

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£25

Being an effective supervisor requires a range of skills that shift continually, based on the present needs of the supervisee. This means placing more or less emphasis on normative, formative or restorative functions across supervision sessions. Research suggests that routine supervision practices over-rely on verbal case discussion, and this can limit opportunities for more active and experiential methods such as role-play, chair work or self-practice of CBT methods.

​Being a dynamic supervisor involves both anticipating supervisee’s preferences and challenges and responding to supervision questions flexibly. It also involves dealing with impasses or ruptures with curiosity, compassion and self-awareness using a variety of CBT informed approaches to keep supervision on track. Supervisors may lack the knowledge or confidence to be more dynamic in their work with supervisees therefore this workshop will seek to equip both novice and experienced supervisors with a range of skills to improve their skills in this area.

​Over the last 20 years Paul has been dedicated to developing the evolution informed psychotherapy called Compassion Focused Therapy for which there is now growing evidence of efficacy from studies around the world. He is currently completing the training manual for this therapy. He has supervised many clinical psychology trainees and professionals and contributed to many clinical training programs. He has run numerous training workshops around the world.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

This workshop is designed for therapists wanting to fine tune their skills and enhance their confidence in treating and supervising PTSD.  Through many years of research, developing and and disseminating cognitive therapy for PTSD, we have identified common challenges faced by therapists and patients in treatment.  In this workshop we will address these, helping therapists develop their PTSD expertise, tune up their skills and boost their effectiveness.  Therapists will see therapy demonstrations, have time to carry out exercises themselves and reflect on their own cases.

 We aim for therapists to leave feeling more confident in their skills to:

  • Uncover the most problematic meanings and powerfully update trauma memories
  • Use a range of modalities in memory updating with skill, including imagery techniques
  • Identify and overcome common treatment roadblocks to boost outcomes
  • Utilise novel ways to address negative self-beliefs within CT-PTSD
  • Use experiential exercises more powerfully in treatment, including creative use of technology

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

A Specific Phobia of Vomiting (SPOV) or emetophobia commonly develops in childhood with a mean duration of about 10 years before getting treatment. It occurs almost exclusively in women. It is one of the most common specific phobias that present to clinicians. People with a SPOV tend to be more handicapped than people with other specific phobias (for example they may avoid a desired pregnancy or being significantly underweight from restriction of food). There is one RCT of CBT compared to a wait list (Riddle-Walker et al, 2016) and one single case experimental design of time intensive CBT. Newer developments are focussed on use of virtual reality.

CPD Hours: 1.5

Price: :£25

Overlapping, common, persistent physical symptoms, not associated with significant pathology, are associated with profound distress, sleep disturbance and disability. Patients with these symptoms attract a range of different labels including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, cough hypersensitivity, fibromyalgia, and dissociative seizures. Around 50% of patients in secondary care have symptoms such as these. Evidence has accumulated for the efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapy. Some studies focus on one syndrome such as irritable bowel syndrome while others take a transdiagnostic approach.   

The aim of the workshop is to:

  1. describe specific and transdiagnostic models and treatment approaches for persistent physical symptoms, and
  2. describe evidence of efficacy and mechanisms of change.   

This workshop will be useful for qualified cognitive behaviour therapists and clinical psychologists working in primary or secondary care, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.

​In this workshop you will develop an understanding of why physical symptoms persist within a cognitive behavioural framework, the extent to which they can be changed and how they can be changed.  Building on your existing skills you will expand your repertoire of skills and techniques that will translate into effective change for your clients and patients.  A range of self-report scales will be described as well as self help materials for patients.

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be challenging to treat effectively. This workshop will focus on overcoming common barriers in its treatment, which include: i) an underspecified case formulation; ii) process issues; and, iii) plateauing/terminating treatment after only modest gains. In the workshop we will discuss a wider range of factors that appear to play a role in the persistence of OCD, such as attachment, self-trust, the OCD “voice”, and self-perpetuating factors in compulsions. We will then discuss: case formulation across the range of OCD presentations, identifying the common pillars that support the OCD system as well as factors/considerations unique to each presentation; identifying the “culprits” in the persistence of a client’s OCD and what new learning about the obsessions and compulsions would be beneficial, collaborative use of cognitive and behavioural strategies to achieve that learning, and managing process issues common in treating OCD.”

CPD Hours: 6

Price: :£80

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