John Ludgate – Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression & Anxiety

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

You can learn advanced CBT techniques to treat chronic or recurring depression and anxiety. The treatment of clients with a high relapse potential or chronic depression is 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 adaptation in CBT for complex cases and will focus on client, therapist and therapy factors which can interfere with therapy’s effectiveness. A model will be offered to help formulate factors involved in chronicity or in the process of relapse. Assessment and conceptualization skills will be looked at. The interventions which target chronic and recurrent problems will be described.

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.

Get. The Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression and Anxiety was written by John Ludgate.

Depression and anxiety disorders can have chronicity and recurrence.

• 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

Strategies and 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

Strategies and Interventions for 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

The therapist can use self-directed CBT.

• 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

Get. The Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression and Anxiety was written by John Ludgate.