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:
This two day course provides training on the application of CBT to Social Anxiety.
Issues covered include:
- Diagnostic criteria, symptoms and demographics
- Beck et al (1985), Clark & Wells (1995) models
- Assessing and formulating clients’ Anticipatory Phase – Selective attention to contextual cues, effortful processing and its effects
- Assessing and formulating clients’ Situational Exposure Phase – Automatic Inhibitory behaviours (eg. blushing etc), ineffective safety behaviours (eg. avoidance of eye contact) and heightened self focus as a social object ( fear of disapproval/shame)
- Assessing and formulating Post Event Processing – Biased recall and negative appraisals of past social performance with accompanying feelings of shame and embarrassment
- Demonstration of assessment and formulation
- The use of cognitive restructuring to address Anticipatory Phase problems (Demonstration and practice)
- Developing clients’ Attentional Focus Shift during the client’s Situational Exposure Phase (Demonstration and practice)
- Moderating client assumptions through the use of video feedback and behavioural experiments
- The use of exposure to social mishaps
- Moderating Post Event cognitive processing (Demonstration and practice)
