Core Competencies in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Becoming an Effective and Competent Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist

This web conference will identify and illustrate some of the essential means by which to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) competently. Regardless of whether participants expect to follow set, manualized protocols or conduct principle-based, individually-conceptualized CBT, this workshop will communicate the core components of effective CBT practice.

Special emphasis will be placed on creating good session structure with a flexible agenda, establishing an atmosphere of collaborative empiricism, utilizing specific CBT techniques both in session and for homework, and improving the therapeutic relationship as a value in its own right, using it as an aid toward conceptualization and intervention. Participants will learn to infuse these elements with cultural awareness and adherence to professional and humanistic ethics. The workshop will also describe and discuss some of the core values at the heart of CBT, including ways to openly communicate and model these values to people in therapy. Further, participants will learn the importance of using and practicing CBT methods on themselves and becoming skilled at self-reflection, so that their actions with clients are mindful, congruent, and beneficent. In addition, the workshop will focus on the ways in which competent therapists achieve higher levels of proficiency by making CBT sessions more memorable and inspirational to those in therapy.

This web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Establish well-organized, well-focused, productive CBT sessions;
2. Use key questions with individuals to assess their beliefs systems and gather other important data in order to develop culturally-informed, CBT case conceptualizations;
3. Implement several primary CBT techniques, including cognitive and behavioral monitoring, guided discovery, rational responding, activity scheduling, and role-playing;
4. Engage in self-reflection so that their clinical methods are more mindful and empathic.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference or would like more information, please contact us here.

Event Reviews from Members

"I felt he was very credible and I appreciated him sharing his expertise. He makes CBT seem so effortless!" - Heather Bade, LMSW

"He clearly enjoys his work with clients, and his satisfaction and competency come through." - Linda K. Lavin, MS, NCC, LMHC

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395. 

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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