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Insight CBT Workshops
2 day workshops addressing audiences of approximately 40 to 100 people
Mental health professionals with high caseloads such as psychiatrists or community psychiatric nurses, social workers or occupational therapists will not have time to deliver a full course of cognitive therapy to their psychotic patients.
The Insight study proved however that CBT techniques can be safely used in every patient consultation setting. These techniques will be described, demonstrated and practiced in the 2 day workshop setting. The techniques recommended will have beneficial effects on the consultation improving collaboration, reducing distress and improving social function. The CBT techniques trained in this workshop are:
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Techniques to build a therapeutic alliance.
- Normalising psychotic symptoms to reduce stigma.
- Working with appraisals of psychotic symptoms to consider alternatives to delusional explanations.
- Constructing mini-formulations to demonstrate how appraisal, emotions, sleep deprivation and safety behaviours (usually avoidance) act to maintain and exacerbate psychotic symptoms.
- Developing and improving coping skills using the list of 60 coping strategies. Patients are taught to move from distraction to focussing and metacognitive coping styles.
- Techniques are taught as to how to improve adherence using the health belief model and attitude change.
The basics of reality testing of hallucinations and delusions are taught.
- There are a variety of techniques which will allow patients to test their voices and paranoid beliefs directly during brief sessions.
Appropriate homework exercises for all of the above are outlines.
This is a vibrant and highly clinically pertinent 2 day workshop which will allow the participants to begin to use these new approaches with their psychotic patients. The website will provide all pertinent backup materials and give advice on how to access local special interest and supervision groups.
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