Process-Based CBT for Anxiety
An Alternative to Syndrome-Focused Treatments
About This Course
For therapy to be most effective, practitioners need to embrace a systematic, assessment-guided, and theory-based approach to understand the relationships of the various problems of a given client.
However, the focus on DSM-defined psychiatric disorders has sometimes limited the vision of CBT in its measures and application. For example, measures of flourishing, quality of life, pro sociality, relationship quality, growth, and prosperity are often less in focus despite client interest in such issues.
Process-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PB-CBT) is an alternative to the contemporary approach. It’s a radical departure from the latent disease model of the DSM and the proliferation of the protocols-for-syndrome approach.
Instead, PB-CBT focuses on how to target and change the core biopsychosocial processes underlying a client’s specific situation. This approach recognizes that psychotherapy typically involves non-linear (rather than linear), bidirectional (rather than unidirectional), and dynamic changes of many (rather than only a few) interconnected variables.
In this live online course, Dr. Stefan Hofmann will illustrate how PB-CBT is used to target key treatment processes by combining functional analysis with a dynamic and person-specific network approach. To illustrate the unique features of the treatment, Dr. Hofmann will explore its application in two common anxiety-related problems: social anxiety and generalized anxiety.
While there are plenty of workshops that provide an overview of protocols of CBT, this is the first that teaches methods based on the recommendations of an interorganizational task force gathered under the leadership of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies with cooperation of all of the major behavioral and cognitive associations.
As an alternative to DSM-based diagnoses, in this course you’ll learn how to utilize an evolutionary “model of models” to bring process-based case formulation into a coherent system.
Dr. Hofmann will guide you through a dramatically new way of combining the CBT tools you already know into a process-based framework. You’ll also discover opportunities to step out of your own comfort zone, embrace other perspectives, and consider the individual from a broader array of theoretical orientations.
Over six live online sessions, you’ll...
- Participate in dynamic group exercises, in addition to didactic presentation
- Learn practical strategies and exercises for how to use a process-based approach to deploy the core competencies of CBT
- Practice integrating behavioral, cognitive, and acceptance and mindfulness wings of the CBT tradition under process-based CBT as a functional analytic strategy
- Explore the therapeutic change processes using a functional diagnostic system that has treatment utility
- Generate methods for evaluating the progressivity of models and theories in clinical practice
For practitioners, researchers, students, instructors, and other professionals working with CBT, this breakthrough approach — already setting a new standard in coursework and training — provides the guidance you need to fully comprehend and utilize the core competencies of CBT in a way that honors the behavioral, cognitive, and acceptance and mindfulness wings of the tradition.
Join Dr. Hofmann inside the course and learn a comprehensive, process-based toolset for helping your clients overcome their anxiety, and build lives of greater meaning and prosperity.
Schedule
Session 1 | August 3, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
From Protocols-for-Syndrome to Process-based Therapy
Session 2 | August 10, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
The Nature and Treatments of Anxiety
Session 3 | August 17, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
A Treatment Protocol for “Generalized Anxiety Disorder”
Session 4 | August 24, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
The PBT Alternative for Treating Generalized Anxiety and Worry
Session 5 | August 31, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
A Treatment Protocol for “Social Anxiety Disorder”
Session 6 | September 7, 2021, 12 PM—2 PM EDT
The PBT Alternative for Treating Social Anxiety
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the limitations of a latent disease model.
- Develop a functional analysis based on network theory.
- Apply evolutionary science to a mental health issues.
- Identify the dimensions of mental health as adaptation.
- Describe the principles of evolutionary science: Variation, selection, and retention in context.
- Select the most appropriate treatment strategies to a given problem.
- Contrast the syndrome-based protocol treatment of GAD with a PB-CBT approach.
- Contrast the syndrome-based protocol treatment of SAD with a PB-CBT approach
Continuing Education
Please review complete CE and conflict-of-interest disclosure information prior to registering. This live online course is jointly sponsored by Praxis CET and Institute for Better Health (IBH) and is approved for 12 CE Hours by the following listed below. There was no commercial support for this activity. All the planners/presenters have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Praxis CET maintains responsibility for the program with the CE approvals outlined below:
Drug and Alcohol Counselors: Indicated courses have been approved by Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 12 CE hours. NAADAC Provider #165310, Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc, is responsible for all aspects of its programming.
National Counselors: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6759. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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Institute for Better Health maintains responsibility for the program with the CE approvals outlined below:
Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Institute for Better Health and Praxis Continuing Education and Training. The Institute for Better Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Institute for Better Health designates this live online activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists: Institute for Better Health is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education to psychologists. Institute for Better Health maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Nurses: Institute for Better Health, Inc is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Institute for Better Health is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, BRN (Provider CEP#2672).
Educators: Institute for Better Health has been approved by the Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board (WESPSB), a member of NASDTEC, as a Clock Hour Provider for Educators. Learners may claim one Clock Hour for each activity hour attended. Please contact your individual state boards for information regarding reciprocity and any additional requirements.
Prerequisites
Audience
Recommended Reading
Hayes, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (Eds.) (2018). Process-based CBT: The science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. ISBN-13: 978-1626255968.
References
Hayes, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2017). The third wave of CBT and the rise of process-based care. World Psychiatry, 16, 245-246. doi: 10.102/wps.20442
Hofmann, S. G., & Hayes, S. C. (2019). The future of intervention science: Process-based therapy. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 37–50. doi: 10.1177/2167702618772296
Hofmann, S. G., Curtiss, J. E., & Hayes, S. C. (in press). Beyond linear mediation: Toward a dynamic network approach to study treatment processes. Clinical Psychology Review. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101824
Hofmann, S. G. & Otto, M. W. (2018). Cognitive-behavior therapy of social anxiety disorder: Evidence-based and disorder specific treatment techniques (Second Edition). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-138-67143-0.
Hofmann, S. G. (2020). The anxiety skills workbook: Simple CBT and mindfulness strategies for overcoming anxiety, fear, and worry. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Press. ISBN: 1684034523
Refund and Cancellation Policy
We understand, sometimes things come up!
Praxis will offer a full refund to registrants of both live and live-online trainings who cancel their registration up to 14 days before the course or workshop start date, minus an administrative processing fee of $30 for a 2-day workshop or online course, and a $50 fee for a 4-day workshop. If cancelled within 14 days, no refund will be issued, however, a credit for the same amount will be applied toward another learning product, which expires within 1 year. Please email us at events@praxiscet.zendesk.com to cancel a registration.
