This is a stand-alone course that can be taken by any practitioner as part of their continuous professional development (CPD).
It is also one of the modules within:
Problem solving skills are a key CBT technique for clients to learn and use. This course takes delegates through a range of evidence based problem solving techniques to incorporate into their practice. Starting with D’Zurilla and Goldfried’s classic approach to problem solving, this course outlines and explores a wide range of additional problem solving techniques that can be effectively used with clients.
This course will be interesting and useful to therapists working in different clinical fields with a variety of clients, using a broad range of therapeutic modalities, not exclusively to those who practise CBT.
Issues covered include:
- Problem Definition and its role in problem solving.
- How D’Zurilla and Goldfried’s classic approach to problem solving still influences the field.
- A range of problem solving techniques that enable your client to alter their relationship with their problem.
- 4 Rules of Osborn’s Brainstorming and how to apply them to work with clients.
- How to work with uniqueness cognitions, motivational issues and uncertainty intolerance.
- Approaches to defining complex problems.
- How to use Kepner-Tregoe Problem Analysis with clients to generate new solutions to problems.
- How a client’s arousal level affects their problem solving ability and what can be done about it.
- Case studies illustrating the practical use of techniques and lots of practice opportunities.
