CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms
Presenter(s)
Lara Desrosiers
This 6 month virtual learning experience will focus on improving your ability to identify & work with pain related beliefs and distress in your rehabilitation or psychotherapy practice. An individual’s beliefs, thoughts, and emotions will influence their physiology, their experience of their symptoms and how they engage in their unique recovery. Your effectiveness as a practitioner is determined largely by your capacity to intentionally identify and address these factors.
However, these are skills that are not taught in most traditional physical rehabilitation programs. Additionally, mental health professionals aren’t always taught how to support their clients with navigating beliefs and behaviours related to physical sensations like pain. Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to learn and practice techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that will improve your therapeutic relationship with your clients, improve your capacity to help them navigate the distress related to their symptoms, and enhance your impact. This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals interested in enhancing their psychologically-informed practice.
What's Included? 15 hours of Self Paced Content divided into 4 parts to introduce you to theory, key concepts and skills rooted in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. 4 X 2.0 hour Integration Workshops spaced a month apart focused on Clarifying/Refining Learning, Application, Practice, and Clinical Reasoning. Students are encouraged to bring questions and case studies to the Integration Workshops in order to unpack obstacles and gain clarity. Discussion boards to consolidate new ideas, explore nuance and application, and learn from peers and facilitators. A wealth of reference materials to dive into and explore during and after the course. Access to the self-paced content and the instructor's monthly office hours for 1 year from the start of the course so that you have the support you need to translate learning into practice.