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CBT COURSES: METACOGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL
THERAPY FOR GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE THERAPY

CBT courses are offered by The International Institute for Cognitive Therapy, from Certificate to Diploma levels.

The International Institute for Cognitive Therapy is now offering a CBT course in Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

All our CBT courses are taught at weekends.

It is important for CBT therapists to receive training on a regular basis. Many professional bodies such as the BABCP, BACP and IACP require that practising members spend a minimum of 30 hours per year in CPD activities. This CBT course will provide you with 12 hours CPD.

METACOGNITIVE THERAPY FOR GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER

CBT is now considered the only consistent and empirically supported form of psychotherapy for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).  It has demonstrated the greatest overall improvement across studies, especially at 1-year follow up. However, failure rates can be as high as 60%. There are many difficulties that clinicians need to overcome to be able to help patients with this problem: One of them is the high rate of comorbid disorders associated with GAD. Studies of clinical samples have found that over 75% of patients with a current principle diagnosis of GAD have other co-occurring anxiety or mood disorders (Brawman-Mintzer et al., 1993; Brown & Barlow, 1992; Massion et al., 1993).

The way we currently view the conceptualisation of worry and GAD may be attributable to the recent CBT theoretical models that view the constructs of intolerance, uncertainty and metacognition as prominent influences in chronic worry. These theories open new pathways to develop treatment options and widen the possibilities of elucidating the established interpretation of dysfunctional worry and the successful methods to manage it.

This practical professional training workshop will cover, in detail, innovative ways of treating Generalised Anxiety Disorder using Metacognitive Therapy.

Metacognitive Therapy is a CBT evidence-based approach. It is directed toward the modification of problematic and difficult to constrain patterns of extended thinking, such as worry and ruminative processes.  It has been found that positive and negative metacognitive beliefs can sustain worry as a coping-strategy for dealing with negative thoughts. Positive metacognitions are expressed as advantages to worrying in order to detect and cope with future harm. Conversely, negative metacognitions are beliefs concerned with the uncontrollability of worry and its potential for causing harm. The perceived danger inherent in the very act of worrying tends to maintain the persistence and elevation of both worry and anxiety.

In metacognitive therapy, identifying and challenging metacognitive beliefs, learn to be mindfully detached from worrisome thoughts, dealing with any behavioural and cognitive reactions to worrying e.g. reassurance seeking, checking, avoidance, thought control, etc. are just some of the objectives that can disrupt the process of worry and achieve a successful outcome in around 80% of patients in only 6 to 10 sessions.

This two-day workshop will focus on the Metacognitive model of GAD and students will have ample opportunity to practise the necessary skills in role-plays. The course will begin with a detailed explanation of the disorder, how standard CBT compares with Metacognitive therapy, how to formulate cases as well as covering interventions to disrupt unhealthy processes of worry.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this 2-day practical workshop, participants will have learned how to:

1. Describe the important clinical features of Generalised Anxiety Disorder and their differential diagnosis

2. Recognise metacognitive theory and how the GAD model functions

3. Complete an initial assessment using the Metacognitive Therapy model

4. Learn specific techniques to treat factors that maintain worry

5. Develop a cognitive-behavioural case formulation and treatment plan for selected cases.

6. Use psychometric tools to assess Generalised Anxiety Disorder

7. Create and produce metacognitive case conceptualisations for GAD

8. Socialise patients during treatment

9. Understand both structure and content of MCT

10. Apply techniques to deal with worry

11. Apply techniques to modify metacognitive beliefs and strengthen metacognitive skills

12. Measure and monitor the processes and outcomes

13. Design an effective Relapse prevention programme 

LOCATION: BELFAST

VENUE: Belfast International Youth Hostel
              22-32 Donegall Road, Belfast, BT12 5JN
              T: +44 (0) 28 9031 5435
              Email: info@hini.org.uk                

 http://www.hini.org.uk/hostels/Belfast-International
(To see directions/more information about the venue)

DATES: 5/6 MARCH 2011 (Saturday/ Sunday)

PRESENTER: Robin Bailey

FEE: £220. Fees include tea breaks but not lunch.

This course uses a range of effective teaching methods with a mixture of formal presentations, video demonstrations, case presentations, role-play, and group discussions. This training program is eminently practical in developing the necessary therapeutic skills although all exercises will be carried out in a safe, non-threatening classroom environment.

This session would be suitable for clinicians at all levels, and should provide a useful update for Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychiatrists, Nurses and other mental health professionals.

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