John Ludgate – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intensive Training

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Master the Core Skills and Competencies of CBT

Foundations in CBT

• Evolution of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
• Neurobiological Findings
• Outcome Studies

Treatment Concepts

• Socialization to Treatment Model
• Levels of Cognition
• Eliciting & Labeling Distortions
• Identify & Evaluate Automatic Thoughts

Offshoot Models

• Third Wave Approaches
• DBT
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Schema Therapy

The Therapeutic Relationship

• Establish Rapport
• Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance
• Predictive of Outcome

Cognitive Conceptualization

• Case Formulation
• Collaborative Empiricism
• Symptom Driven Treatment Planning

Key Components of CBT Practice

• Structure
• Feedback
• Guided Discovery
• Collaborative Empiricism
• Homework

Application to Clinical Practice

• Case Studies/Role Plays

CBT for Mood Disorders, Anger, Anxiety, PTSD & Substance Abuse

CBT for Mood Disorders

• Cognitive Model of Depression
• Behavioral Activation
• Sleep Hygiene
• Activity Monitoring & Scheduling
• Modify Negative Cognitions
• Gratitude & Meaning
• Depressive Relapse
• Bipolar Disorder

CBT for Anger

• Cognitive Model of Anger
• Role of Values & “Moral Resistance”
• Symptom Management

CBT for Anxiety

• Generalized Anxiety
• Cognitive Model of Anxiety
• “Worry Cure”
• Phobias
• Hierarchy Work
• Desensitization
• Panic Disorder
• Cognitive Model of Panic
• Interoceptive Strategies

CBT for OCD

• Intrusive Thoughts
• Metacognitive Strategies
• Behavioral Experiments

CBT for PTSD

• Prolonged Exposure
• Cognitive Reprocessing
• Trauma Narratives

CBT for Substance Abuse

• Impulse Control Models
• Monitor Cravings & Resist Urges
• Relapse Prevention

Application to Clinical Practice

• Case Studies/Role Plays

Difficult Cases, Cluster B & C Personality Disorders

Overview of CBT for Challenging Cases

• Why are they challenging
• Adaptations in CBT
• Modified Expectations for the Therapist

Treatment Model

• Early Maladaptive Schemas
• Breaking Destructive Behavioral Cycles
• Belief Modification Protocol

CBT for Cluster B Personality Disorders

• Antisocial
  • Psychopathy
  • Behavior Management
• Narcissistic
  • Subtypes of Narcissism
  • Schema Mode Work
• Histrionic
  • Schema Modification
  • Constructive Alternatives for “Getting Noticed”
• Borderline
  • DBT Based Strategies
  • Emotion Regulation Skills
  • Distress Tolerance Skills
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

CBT for Cluster C Personality Disorders

• Modifying Avoidant Schemas and Strategies
• Changing Dependent Beliefs and Behaviors
• OCPD: Interventions and Strategies

Advanced Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders

• Modify Deep Seeded Beliefs
• Continuum Work
• Construct New Beliefs
• Internalization Exercises
• Build Resilience
• Cognitive Behavioral Chain Analysis
• Schema Mode Work

CBT for Suicidal Clients

• CBT Model of suicide
• Risk Assessment
• Strategies for Suicidal Ideation and Hopelessness
• Reasons for Living Inventories

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

Faculty

John Ludgate, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 7

Licensed Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Private Practice

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John Ludgate, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. His practice, which involves work in both a private practice and in an outpatient psychiatric center, consists largely of treating clients referred with mood problems and/or anxiety conditions. He is currently working at the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of Western North Carolina in Asheville, North Carolina.

John is a native of southern Ireland and obtained a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. He trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia under Dr. Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy, obtaining a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He subsequently became assistant director of training at Dr. Beck’s Center.

In the early 1990’s, Dr. Ludgate was a research clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis. He authored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Relapse Prevention for Depression and Anxiety (Professional Resources Press, 2009) and was co-editor with Wright, Thase and Beck of Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu (Guilford Press, 1993). His other books include Overcoming Compassion Fatigue (PESI, 2014 co-authored with Martha Teater and The CBT Couples Toolbox (PESI, 2018). He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression. He has presented many seminars and workshops on cognitive behavioral approaches, both nationally and internationally.

Speaker Disclosures:

Speaker Disclosures: Financial: John Ludgate has an employment relationship with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: John Ludgate has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.