Friday, August 23, 2024

CBT for Psy­chosis: An Indi­vid­u­al­ized, Recov­ery Ori­ent­ed Approach

Pre­sen­ter Ron Unger, LCSW, will be hold­ing a vir­tu­al train­ing on CBT for Psychosis. 

Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py (CBT) for psy­chosis is an evi­dence-based method to help peo­ple reduce dis­tress and dis­abil­i­ty relat­ed to psy­chot­ic expe­ri­ences and to sup­port a pos­si­ble full recov­ery. Learn how to col­lab­o­rate with peo­ple hav­ing dif­fi­cult and con­fus­ing expe­ri­ences, ​“explore the evi­dence” rather than impose your own beliefs, and help peo­ple devel­op well informed cop­ing options so they are not forced to rely entire­ly on med­ica­tions that may have lim­it­ed effectiveness. 

This sem­i­nar begins by exam­in­ing the nature of psy­chosis and of CBT, pro­vid­ing a foun­da­tion for under­stand­ing how CBT can be help­ful. Then the basic style of CBT for psy­chosis is explored, fol­lowed by an intro­duc­tion to two of the most impor­tant tech­niques. Final­ly, appli­ca­tions of CBT are explored for a vari­ety of psy­chot­ic expe­ri­ences, includ­ing hear­ing dis­tress­ing voic­es, para­noia, delu­sion­al beliefs, dis­or­ga­ni­za­tion, and neg­a­tive symptoms. 

This sem­i­nar is designed to give men­tal health work­ers prac­ti­cal strate­gies they can put to work imme­di­ate­ly as well as to stim­u­late an inter­est in learn­ing more about this approach. Pri­or knowl­edge of CBT is help­ful but not required. 

Objec­tives for this train­ing will include:

• Use evi­dence-based CBT approach­es to reduce dis­tress and dis­abil­i­ty relat­ed to psy­chot­ic experiences
• Iden­ti­fy ways to nor­mal­ize psy­chot­ic expe­ri­ences by see­ing them as under­stand­able in rela­tion­ship to an individual’s life sto­ry, and capa­ble of being altered 
• Cre­ate for­mu­la­tions that pro­mote hope and pro­vide direc­tion for treat­ment and recovery 
• Uti­lize a col­lab­o­ra­tive style to engage in guid­ed dis­cov­ery of solu­tions to dis­tress­ing psy­chosis-relat­ed problems 
• Describe ways of inte­grat­ing this psy­cho­log­i­cal approach with exist­ing treat­ment methods

Event Details

6.5 CEUs for CBHA and IAO­DAP­CA

For the list of approved CEU licen­sures click here! Approved licen­sures include: CARS, CODP I/CODP II, CADC, CRADC, CSADC, CAADC, CCJP II, CFPP II, LCPC/LPC, LMFT/MFT, LCSW/LSW, MAATP II, CPRS I OR II, CPS, CSPS, PCGC II, CRSS I OR II, CVSS II

Date: August 23^rd, 2024

Time: 9AM — 5PM

Loca­tion: Vir­tu­al via Zoom

RSVP BY TUES­DAY AUGUST 20TH, 2024: Men­tal Health Pro­fes­sion­als and KYC staff are wel­come to join. 

• KYC Staff, please click here to reg­is­ter.
  
• Non-KYC Staff please click here to reg­is­ter by email­ing Bren­da. Please include your licensure/​credentials in your email to assist with pro­cess­ing CEUs. 

Cost: $120 (KYC Staff can attend at no cost)

Speak­er: Ron Unger, LCSW.

Pre­sen­ter Biography

Ron Unger, LCSW, is a ther­a­pist and con­sul­tant spe­cial­iz­ing in CBT and relat­ed approach­es for psy­chosis. For the past 2 decades he has been pro­vid­ing con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion sem­i­nars on CBT for psy­chosis, work­ing with the inter­sec­tion of trau­ma and psy­chosis, and address­ing cul­tur­al and spir­i­tu­al issues with­in treat­ment for psy­chosis, at uni­ver­si­ties and men­tal health facil­i­ties across the Unit­ed States and inter­na­tion­al­ly. His sem­i­nars help peo­ple relate to the basic human­i­ty in oth­er­wise puz­zling extreme states of mind, and reveal pos­si­ble path­ways peo­ple can take toward recov­ery and heal­ing. He chairs the Pacif­ic NW Branch of ISPS-US, and main­tains a blog at recov​eryfrompsy​chosis​.org

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