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Course profile: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2-3 days)
This course aims to provide a greater awareness of Cognitive development, leading to increased understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course participants should:Course content day one:
The birth of a human being: what makes us who we are?
Ideas, Theories and Prejudices. Nature versus Nurture. Free will Versus
Predetermination.
Cognitive psychology and cognitive development.
Jean Piaget an overview
Accommodation, Assimilation and Equilibration
Stages of Cognitive Developmen
Challenges to Piagets Model.
Day two:
A recap on what we mean by Cognitive development and what the stages are
Cognitive factors, observational learning and social learning theory
Cognitive Decline and changes in cognitive functioning
What is cognitive therapy
An overview of the first 20 years (1960s & 1970s)
An overview of the second twenty years (1980s & 1990s)
Development and principles of cognitive-behavioral treatments
Therapeutic relationship, Cognitive behavioral assessment
Day three:
Review day 2
When and when not to use cognitive behavioral therapy
Dealing with: Anxiety states: Panic and generalized anxiety
Phobic disorders
Obsess ional disorders
Depression
Course overview
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