Atheneum Learning

20 CEU/CME certified by our joint sponsor, McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School — Nationally Accredited for Psychologists, Physicians, Social Workers, Nurses, LMFTs, and LMHCs

Benefits and Features of Online CBT Training Program:

• 17 Online Learning Games to increase your mastery and knowledge of CBT
• 8 Built-in videos of Dr. Neuhaus throughout the training to describe and demonstrate CBT principles and practices
• Instructional Videos, Blog Posts, and Tips to support you to complete the online training
• Access to additional handouts to use with clients
• Free Access to webinars conducted by Dr. Neuhaus on specific topics, including anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and behavioral activation

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The Flexible CBT Online Training Programme will teach you how to:

• Use CBT skills training and psychoeducation to help patients improve their functioning, interpersonal connections, and quality of life
• Actively engage your patients to promote collaboration and get treatment started in the first session
• Become adept at flexible, patient-driven treatment, rather than rigidly adhering to protocols that can be a mismatch for them
• Make clinical decisions to optimize matching of treatment interventions to the specific problems your patients are facing in their lives
• Teach your patients a core set of evidence-based, cognitive and behavioral skills CBT skills, including: identifying problems with CBT triangle of thoughts, feelings, behaviors; thought records/ cognitive restructuring; behavioral activation; chain analysis/ behavioral analysis; distress tolerance
• Incorporate psychoeducation into the treatment to inform patients about their condition and help them understand the treatment
• Use metrics to teach your patients how to evaluate their levels of distress and track the changes they make as a result of skills training and psychoeducation
• Evaluate your patient’s response to treatment using proven principles and guidelines to identify what is working and what isn’t
• Identify common functional problems that are often present in depression, anxiety, stress, and borderline personality disorder, to most effectively treat patients with multiple diagnoses
• Work with treatment resistant patients who have difficulty adhering to the treatment
• This pragmatic and effective approach was developed over two decades by Edmund Neuhaus, PhD, ABPP, while he served as Clinical Director of the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program and Co-Director of Psychology Training at McLean Hospital, the signature psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Neuhaus saw the need to develop a program to train clinicians in adapting the elements of standard CBT protocols to meet the needs of a wide range of patients that clinicians see in their practices, including those with multiple diagnoses, Axis II, and resistance to treatment

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Download Out Treatment Outcome Research on Flexible CBT — Peer reviewed paper on symptom improvement for mood disordered patients: decreased negative thoughts, increased daily activity, overall functional improvement

The Flexible CBT online program is presented in three training modules.

Module 1—Conceptual basis for the treatment framework providing comprehensive foundational knowledge in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Seven principles (Fixed Values) guide clinical decision-making for assessment, case formulation, the therapeutic relationship, psychoeducation,and skills training:

• CBT Triangle: Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
• Functional Improvement is basis for priorities, goals, and measuring change
• CBT Skill Acquisition: Core skills for depression, anxiety, stress, and personality disorders (Borderline PD)
• Collaboration and Connection between therapist and patient
• Evidence-based CBT treatments are the foundation of the approach
• Description of Life Context to determine unique needs of each patient
• Treatment is a Learning Process that progresses in stages

In Modules 2 and 3, Fixed Values are operationalized into Principles and Protocols for applying the Flexible CBT Approach. Principles are the anchor points to guide clinical decision-making in assessment and treatment. Protocols are specific methods to apply. Knowledge of principles and protocols facilitates rigorous clinical judgment leading to effective treatment.

Module 2— Assessment and Beginning the Work of Therapy

• Establishing the Relationship as an integral component of assessment and basis for effective collaboration
• Assessment framework using Cognitive Behavioral Analysis (CBA)
• Case formulation leading to treatment planning

Module 3—Bridging Assessment to Skills Training and Psychoeducation

• Matching skills to problems
• Psychoeducation as precursor to skills training
• Principles and Protocols for skills training
• Skills training for depression, anxiety, stress, and personality disorders (Borderline PD)

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