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The course: Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression and Anxiety by John Ludgate

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• Course language: English

• 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.

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.

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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