CBT Plus, with Depression.
'CBT Plus, with Depression' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is the only CBT for Depression training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of the Extended Training in CBT course, or The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses.
Executive Summary:
Depression is often referred to as "the common cold" of mental health - it is very common and we haven't always been very good at treating it. CBT's original application was with depression, NICE guidelines recommend CBT for depression and CBT is clearly one of the front-running interventions for depression. This module is designed to cover the relevant CBT techniques in a way that encourages you to use them subsequently and empowers you to help most people who are depressed.
What this course will do for you:
- You will know what depression is: its symptoms, causes and how it affects people.
- You will be familiar with the major CBT techniques for depression and how to apply them with your own patients.
- You will know how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy meshes with other helpful interventions for depression, and how to utilize that to the person's benefit.
The course covers:
- What is depression? Symptoms, causes and incidence. How to analyze symptoms and interventions by the 5 CBT factors.
- NICE guidelines on the treatment of depression, especially as they relate to psychological therapies.
- The measurement of depression. The best evidence of success comes directly from the patient. Questionnaire measures.
- Diary Keeping. A crucial CBT method, so we look at why this is, and examples of the best forms of diary keeping.
- Doing something different. If you are depressed, there's no point in carrying on doing the same things as you are right now, but changing established patterns of behavior is not as easy as it might seem.
- Enjoyable activities. One reason people don't do enjoyable things is that they don't know what they might enjoy.
- People who become trapped in lives that are unrewarding for them. How to help them to escape and restructure.
- Cognitive restructuring. The strongest purely cognitive intervention, we look at what it is and how to do it, including APT forms to help.
- Thoughts Diaries. We can do the same for people's thoughts and perceptions as we do for their behavior. This is how.
- Problem solving: where depression is the result of realistic problems then the best strategy is to resolve the problem rather change one's view. This is how.
- Social factors. Social factors are often important in depression, so we must know what problems often arise in this area and be able to address them effectively.
- Biological factors such as exercise, sleep, diet. NICE Guidelines and how to apply the recommended strategies.
- Drug therapies for depression. "The combination of antidepressants and individual CBT is more cost-effective than either treatment on its own." NICE.
- Risk Assessment - Suicide: 90% of successfully suicidal individuals seek professional help in the preceding year.
- Working with suicidal people. Being suicidal is different from being very depressed; how should we respond differently?
- Course Methods include lecture, discussion, video material, case analysis and practice exercises.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For individuals or small groups:
An engaging and relevant online course that can be started and accessed at any time and completed at your own pace, taking breaks to assimilate and practice the skills as they are introduced. Price: $300 USD per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam. Guaranteed completion; full refund if you don’t complete for any reason. For teams and organizations:
Engaging and relevant online course, your colleagues attend from home or workplace at times that suit. Price: $300 USD per person. (Completion guarantee, for attendees who don’t complete for whatever reason, you can transfer the training to other staff members.)
Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $6,090* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $390 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $130 USD per day.
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: $9,195 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $615 per person.
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license. his is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held face-to-face or online). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button: |
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live*
Presentation: 92%
Relevance: 96%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last two runnings of the course in this format.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the CBT Plus for Depression course has received.
"A course not to be missed by anyone delivering care to someone with depression."
"The course was excellent, informative and well presented - packed full of useful material that can be incorporated into practice."
