Enhancing Your CBT Skills by Focusing on the Therapy Process and Avoiding Common Process Errors: WS507

Cognitive behavioral therapy skills can be enhanced by focusing on the therapy process. In this intermediate workshop, participants consider how they structure sessions, collaborate with challenging patients, conceptualize complex patients, teach essential life skills to patients, and assist patients in acquiring these skills. The presenter highlights common therapy process errors associated with unfavorable outcomes and reminds therapists to stay focused in sessions, pay appropriate levels of attention to their own feelings, avoid being emotionally activated by patients’ problems, and remain aware of the complex dynamics of human change processes.

Webinars are converted to video on-demand programs with closed captioning after the live air date

• Describe at least one complex cognitive behavioral process skill they wish to develop further.
• Describe at least one common therapy process error they wish to avoid in the future.
• Explain why it is difficult (for both patients and therapists) to make desired cognitive and behavioral changes.

Bruce S. Liese, PhD, ABPP