Training
Registration closes @12 noon on 21.06.24
The behavioural component of CBT is a fundamental part of therapy. It is the process which enables the discovery of a new perspective, evaluates the unhelpfulness of safety seeking behaviours and creates cognitive flexibility.
There are many reasons why therapists can get ‘stuck’ in a cognitive domain and do not move on to using behavioural experiments in CBTp. This includes both client and therapist factors. For example, a client’s level of distress, sense of threat, belief conviction, lack of motivation or limited trust in the therapist. Therapists also have unhelpful predictions that clients will not cope with behavioural experiments, that it will increase levels of distress and belief conviction. Therapists also experience service pressures and believe they do not have the time to use an ‘out and about’ behavioural approach in the community.
This workshop will enable participants to enhance and prioritise the use of a behavioural approach within CBTp. We will re-visit the rationale for behavioural experiments and discuss the potential obstacles to using these for people experiencing psychosis. We will look at practical ways to overcome these obstacles, and design behavioural experiments to maximise engagement and learning, always with the aim to help progress towards the therapy goals.
This is a clinical skills workshop, and the emphasis will be on participants undertaking an active role in practicing the skills discussed throughout the day.
This workshop is suitable for clinicians with demonstrated competency in cognitive behavioural therapy and experience of working with people experiencing psychosis.
Presenter
Rich Blackwell, Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
Rich Blackwell is a Senior CBT Therapist & Tutor. Having undertaken his CBT training with the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (OCTC), he now provides specialist supervision and training for the PG Cert in Enhanced CBT (Psychosis &Bipolar). He also works part time within a Psychological Therapies Service in Secondary Mental Health Services. He is currently helping to develop a Psychosis and Bipolar Pathway to ensure increased accessibility and equality of CBT provision for this client group, along with delivering CBT for people experiencing psychosis and bipolar within a community mental health setting.
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.
If you are booking a workshop place for someone else, you must complete your own details in the billing field, but ENTER THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS NAME/ADDRESS in the shipping field. If you wish to order items using a paper order form instead of online, you can view or download an order form in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Once downloaded, print it out, fill it in, and send off with your payment [cheque made payable to OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST] to the address on the form.
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.
Special needs
We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. If you have any particular needs, please contact us
prior to booking.