Jan. 25 | 3 CE Credits | 10:00 am - 1:15 pm ET
CBT for Depression: New Advances and Standard CBT Approaches
Major Depression and other mood disorders are frequently encountered in clinical practice and counselors and therapists often find these clients challenging for a number of reasons. Cognitive Therapy, as an approach to treating depression, which was first described and researched in the late 1970s and early 1980s continues to be the gold standard for effective treatment of depression and have been shown to be effective both in short-term symptom remission and in preventing relapse. Some additional therapeutic approaches including Behavioral Activation, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Rumination-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy have augmented our therapeutic arsenal. Standard CBT and these newer approaches will be described and demonstrated in this training and special issue such as suicidality, anhedonia and relapse will be discussed and strategies to overcome these will be outlined.
John Ludgate, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He currently works at the CBT Center of Western North Carolina, located in Asheville, NC. He specializes in treating mood, anxiety, relationship, and psychosexual disorders. As well as having an active clinical practice, he is involved in training and supervision in CBT.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Trinity College, Dublin; a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from University of Edinburgh in Scotland; and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, obtaining a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He subsequently became Assistant Director of Training at Dr. Beck’s Center. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a Research Clinical Psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as a cognitive-behavioral therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and hypochondriasis. He subsequently worked as a clinical psychologist in state agencies and private practice.
In 1988, he published the book Maximizing Psychotherapeutic Gains and Preventing Relapse in
Emotionally Distressed Clients and was co-editor with Beck and others of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu, published in 1990. He published Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety in 2009 and Heal Yourself: A CBT Approach to Reducing Therapist Distress and Increasing Therapeutic Effectiveness in 2012. In 2014, he co-authored the book Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: A Practical Resilience Workbook with Martha Teater. In 2016, he co-edited the book Teaching and Supervising Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, published by Wiley. With Teresa Grubr, he published the CBT Couples Toolbox in 2018. He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for anxiety and depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and serves on the Credentialing Committee of the Academy.
After this training, participants will be able to:
10:00 - 10:05 am – Introduction
10.05 - 10:30 am – The CBT model of depression: How it developed and the implications of the model for therapy
10:30 - 11:00 am - Overview of cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression
11:00 - 11:30 pm - Integration of newer approaches into a comprehensive CBT approach to depression
11:30 - 11:45 pm – Break
11:45 - 12:15 pm – CBT approaches to specific issues in depression treatment such as suicidality, hopelessness, lack of motivation, anhedonia
12:15 - 12:45 pm – CBT for chronically depressed /Persistent Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder clients
12:45 - 1:05 pm –Reducing relapse risk in depression using CBT
1:05 - 1:15 pm – Q&A
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