INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE THERAPY
CBT courses are offered by The International Institute for Cognitive Therapy, from Certificate to Diploma levels. You can read more about our Certificate in CBT and Diploma in CBT by downloading our CBT training programme here.
The International Institute for Cognitive Therapy is now offering a CBT course in Health Anxiety.
All our CBT courses are taught at weekends.
It is important for CBT therapists to receive training on a regular basis. Many professional bodies such as the BABCP , BACP and IACP require that practising members spend a minimum of 30 hours per year in CPD activities. This CBT course will provide you with 6 hours CPD.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL
THERAPY FOR HEALTH ANXIETY
Many people are unduly worried about their health. Health anxiety is a broad term which refers to difficulties ranging from milder worries about somatic symptoms to full-blown hypochondriasis, which involves the fear of having a serious medical disease or the belief that one has such an illness which persists despite medical reassurance. Excessive health anxiety can be complex and difficult to treat. However, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has now been shown to be an effective treatment for hypochondriasis in several randomised controlled trials.
The purpose of this workshop is to review the current state of knowledge about the aetiology, assessment, case formulation, and treatment of hypochondriasis. Many roadblocks and difficulties will be highlighted and discussed during the course of this training. Particular emphasis will be placed on showing participants how they can adapt common cognitive restructuring methods to this type of problem. It is a challenge to use CBT interventions with patients suffering from persistent health anxiety because reattribution techniques have the potential to provide reassurance to them and perpetuate their disorder. Four treatment components will be covered during the training: cognitive modification strategies, response prevention, exposure to feared health problems, and exposure to themes related to death.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the 1-day workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Describe the important clinical features of excessive health anxiety, with an emphasis on hypochondriasis and its differential diagnoses
- To complete an initial assessment
- Develop a cognitive-behavioural case formulation and treatment plan for selected cases
- Identify external stimuli and maintaining factors, including catastrophic bodily interpretations
- Use psychometric tools to assess health anxiety and death fears
- Identify and modify maladaptive health-related beliefs
- Design behavioural experiments
- Help the patient discontinue reassurance and safety-seeking behaviours including attending unnecessary medical investigations or avoidance of anxiety-provoking stimuli
- Design an effective relapse prevention programme
LOCATION: BELFAST
VENUE: Belfast International Youth Hostel
22-32 Donegall Road, Belfast, BT12 5JN
T: +44 (0) 28 9031 5435
Email: info@hini.org.uk http://www.hini.org.uk/hostels/belfast.cfm
(To see directions/more information about the venue)
DATES: 7 MARCH 2010 (Sunday)
PRESENTER: Sylvia Buet
FEE: £110 Fees include tea breaks but not lunch.
This course uses a range of effective teaching methods with a mixture of formal presentations, video demonstrations, case presentations, role-play, and group discussions. This training program is eminently practical in developing the necessary therapeutic skills although all exercises will be carried out in a safe, non-threatening classroom environment.
This session would be suitable for clinicians at all levels, and should provide a useful update for Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychiatrists, Nurses and other mental health professionals.
Please download the brochure below to know more about our CBT courses before enrolling in the training programme e.g. contents, objectives, fees, venue, entry requirements, dates, etc.
BROCHURE: WORKSHOPS IN COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (2009-2010)
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