Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CPD Workshop: Treating Strategies for anxiety, trauma, substance misuse and challenging clients.

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John Ludgate, PhD Related seminars and products

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John Ludgate, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He subsequently became assistant director of training at Dr. Beck’s Center. His current practice consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Ashville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a research clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

He authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). His other books include Overcoming Compassion Fatigue (PESI, 2014 co-authored with Martha Teater) and The CBT Couples Toolbox (PESI, 2018). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. John Ludgate is the owner and President of CBT Training & Consultancy, Inc. He has an employment relationship with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Ludgate receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. John Ludgate is a member of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.

Objectives

1. Apply evidence-based CBT techniques to multiple symptom sets.
2. Choose methods for conducting CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from most difficult clients.
3. Point out, challenge and modify dysfunctional self-talk, thoughts and core beliefs.
4. Develop case conceptualization skills for treating any DSM-5® condition.
5. Formulate the key components of CBT practice.
6. Implement rapport-building tips and tools to improve client relationships.
7. Evaluate key Behavioural activation strategies useful for alleviating treatment resistant depression.
8. Develop strategies for treating depressive relapses.
9. Implement cognitive Behavioural methods to overcome intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
10. Integrate key strategies for impulse control used to treat substance use-disorders
11. Provide exposure and cognitive processing interventions used to treat PTSD and trauma.
12. Utilize cognitive reprocessing for clients with PTSD.
13. Measure symptom management strategies for personality disorders.
14. Apply DBT skills training for borderline personality disorder.
15. Articulate the role of early maladaptive schemas in maintaining chronic conditions.
16. Utilize schema-based strategies for breaking lifelong destructive Behavioural cycles.
17. Determine eight motivations for parasuicidal behaviors and how to effectively intervene for each motivation.
18. Establish how family dynamics are affected by an individual with borderline personality disorder and discover how to improve family communication.
19. Compile suicide assessment skills and learn how to document to minimize liability.

Target Audience

• Psychotherapists 
• Counsellors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers 
• Mental Health Workers
• Psychiatrists

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