Registration closes @ 9am on 01.05.26
This workshop is for people familiar with using CBT in clinical practice, who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of using CBT to help clients experiencing problems with social anxiety.
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a chronic and disabling anxiety disorder, with estimates of lifetime prevalence as high as 12%. People with SAD fear they will do or say something that will be embarrassing or humiliating, and that others will notice and negatively judge them, with significant consequences. As a result, they avoid a range of social and performance situations, such as interviews, speaking in meetings, attending parties, dating, or talking to strangers or people in authority.
Given its inhibitory effects, SAD is associated with under-achievement and high rates of depression. It is a strong predictor of school dropout amongst children, and of alcohol and drug problems amongst adults. Whilst social anxiety typically begins in adolescence, people often endure years of distress before seeking treatment, many not doing so until their mid-thirties.
Identifying and treating SAD with CBT can significantly improve the beliefs someone holds about themselves, how they behave, and what they can achieve, helping suffers to overcome their anxiety and engage in the life they wish to be living.
This workshop focuses on understanding social anxiety disorder and how to assess, formulate, and tackle the problem using key interventions based on the Clark & Wells (1995) model, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Participants will gain:
Knowledge:
- How social anxiety disorder develops, presents, and persists.
- Key questions for accurate assessment and differential diagnosis.
- Clark & Wells (1995) cognitive model of SAD and the evidence base for treatment.
- Collaboratively formulating SAD.
- Working with self-focused attention and safety behaviours.
- Using video feedback.
- Using attention training.
- Using behavioural experiments and surveys.
- Considerations for working remotely.
- When and how to update socially traumatic memories.
- Considerations for working with diversity and neurodiversity.
Skills practice:
- Deriving a cognitive formulation of SAD.
- Experimenting with safety-seeking behaviours and self-focus.
- Using video feedback.
- Attention training.
- Designing behavioural experiments for SAD.
References:
Clark, D. M. (2001). A cognitive perspective on social phobia. In W. R. Crozier & L. E. Alden (Eds.), International handbook of social anxiety: Concepts, research and interventions relating to the self and shyness (pp. 405–430).
Warnock-Parkes, E. L., Wild, J., Stott, R., Grey, N., Ehlers, A., & Clark, D. M. (2017). Seeing is believing using video feedback in cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder. Cognitive and Behavioural Practice, 24, 245–255
Warnock-Parkes, E., Wild, J., Thew, G., Kerr, A., Grey, N., Stott, R., Ehlers, A. & Clark, D. M. (2020) Treating social anxiety disorder remotely with cognitive therapy. the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 13, E30.
Certificate of Attendance
A digital certificate that states the hours of live participation in the workshop will be emailed to you after the training event. You must attend the workshop live to receive a certificate.
New: Workshop recording is now available to attendees
By attending this workshop I understand I am giving my consent for the workshop to be video recorded and for this video recording to be available to people attending the workshop live and for it to be sold separately, for the amount of time determined by OCTC and outlined in the purchase agreement. My name, if displayed onscreen, and my image will make up part of this recording. Recordings are the property of OCTC and making copies of these recordings or sharing login details is not permitted. Please do not reveal details which may compromise the anonymity of clients.
The recording will be available to view for a period of three months.
Presenter
Tom Graham, Counselling Psychologist
Tom Graham is a Counselling Psychologist and CBT Therapist. Tom began using CBT to help people with hoarding problems at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders & Trauma (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust), one of the few centres in the UK providing individual and group therapy for people with clutter problems. Tom has extensive experience of working with people to tackle hoarding individually, in the clinic and at their homes, in-person and online, and has also run in-person and online hoarding disorder group treatment programmes. Tom previously facilitated a weekly drop-in group for people with hoarding problems in conjunction with the London Fire Service. He has delivered hoarding workshops and training to psychological and occupational therapists, NHS community teams, and third sector organisations such as OCD-UK and Age UK. Tom currently works for Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre, which also offers individual CBT for hoarding disorder.
Additional Information
Cancellation & changes policy
If you cancel more than 14 days prior to your booked event, we will refund your fee minus a charge of 15% to cover our administration costs. We regret that cancellations 14 days or less before the booked event cannot be refunded or changed/transferred.
If you wish to change/transfer your booking after confirmation we will do our best to accommodate you if you notify us 14 days prior to your booked event, and if there is space to do so. However there will be an administration charge of £15 per change/transfer.
Confidentiality
Workshops often contain clinical material. This is always anonymised as far as possible but delegates are none the less reminded to respect confidentiality.
All that is discussed in your therapy sessions will be treated as confidential, with the following exceptions.
We are required to seek supervision by our professional body (The British Psychological Society or equivalent) as a means of ensuring good practice. We will usually inform your referrer of your progress, but the details that we disclose will be discussed with you. We do have a statutory obligation to break confidentiality under rare circumstances, namely, if we believe that a client is of danger to themselves or to others (under the Mental Health Act, 2001) or if we believe that a child is at actual risk of physical or sexual abuse (The Children Act, Section 47, 1989).
If we felt that it would be helpful to request additional medical, social or legal information, we could only do this with your consent. Similarly, should another medical, social or legal professional request information from us, we would not release this without your consent.
Disclaimer
OCTC makes every effort to ensure that this programme is delivered as advertised. However, should a presenter have to cancel, we will endeavour to find another suitable presenter. We will inform attendees as soon as is reasonably practical and, if requested, will offer a refund. In the rare event that we are unable to substitute a presenter, we may cancel a workshop and refund payments already made by attendees. OCTC will not refund travel and accommodation costs that attendees may incur.
All the workshops in this programme are carried out by highly experienced therapists and trainers. The individual presenter is responsible for the content of the workshop and any views expressed do not necessarily represent those of OCTC.
Although highly informative, none of the open workshops or workshop series confer a formal qualification or assurance of competence in CBT (or a specialist area of CBT) since we are unable to assess attendee competency within the training event. However, credit and award-bearing courses that lead to formal qualifications are offered by OCTC in conjunction with the University of Oxford. More about these courses is available on our website www.octc.uk
Levels of competence
Before booking a place on a workshop, please ensure that it is pitched at the appropriate level of competence for you. The guide to levels is as follows:
Basic
Basic workshops are for people from a variety of backgrounds, who have at least one year’s clinical experience. Cognitive behavioural knowledge is not necessary for attendance at these workshops, though in practice, a number of attendees will have some skills in the area, and are refreshing/updating their knowledge.
Intermediate
Intermediate workshops are directed towards people who already have knowledge of CBT, and experience in using cognitive formulations and treatment methods – for instance, they are able to identify and test automatic thoughts, and design behavioural experiments. Most participants will be using CBT as part of their clinical practice, and may still be acquiring new CBT skills.
Advanced
Advanced courses are directed towards those professionals who use CBT routinely as part of their clinical practice. They have probably undertaken a significant number of training courses and/or workshops, and use a broad range of cognitive behavioural strategies to work with a range of presentations at varying levels of complexity.
Making reservations
Bookings can only be considered confirmed after we have received your online registration or application form and payment (or invoicing details, including an official purchase order document).
The registration closing date for each workshop is shown on the workshop description page. Please note that no applications received after this deadline will be permitted.
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Refreshments
The cost of the workshops includes hot drinks on arrival, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not usually lunch unless stated. However, for workshops that do include lunch, if you have any special dietary requirements please let us know at the time of application.
Accessibility requirements
We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. If you have any particular needs, please contact us
prior to booking.