Overview

This webinar is being presented by Dr Judith Beck from the Beck Institute in Philadelphia, USA.

In Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), therapists develop strength-based and traditional problem-based conceptualizations and use both to plan treatment.

Several activities are added to the beginning of treatment, including exploring clients' best life periods, and identifying their aspirations and values.

Therapists help clients identify specific goals for each session and steps they want to take in the coming week that are in line with their aspirations and values. Standard CBT strategies are then used to help resolve potential obstacles in taking these steps.

Therapists encourage clients to engage in highly meaningful experiences during the week that lead to a sense of purpose, hope, control, well-being, connection, competence, and/or empowerment. They also help clients draw positive conclusions about their current experiences and feel positive emotions in and out of sessions. To build resilience, therapists help clients recognize how they overcome obstacles.

Level of Learning

Foundational to Intermediate. This activity is targeted to those who have some previous learning on the topic.

Duration of access

Access to the recordings and presenter slides is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

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Activity details 

• On-demand webinar recording 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• identify clients’ lifetime strengths, positive qualities, and resources,

• strengthen adaptive beliefs through drawing conclusions about positive experiences, and

• identify and strengthen values and aspirations.

Presenter(s)

Dr Judith Beck

About the presenter(s)

Judith S. Beck PhD is President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (beckinstitute.org), a non-profit organization that provides state-of-the-art training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R), certification in CBT, and online courses on a variety of CBT and CT-R topics—as well as conducting research and offering CBT resources around the world. Dr. Beck is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

She has written over 100 articles and chapters, workbooks, pamphlets for professionals and nonprofessionals, and 7 books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, 3rd edition (2020) and Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work. She has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally on various applications of CBT and is the primary developer of the Beck Institute’s on demand CBT training courses, which have been taken by more than 28,000 health and mental health professionals in over 130 countries. Dr. Beck provides supervision and maintains a clinical caseload at the Beck Institute’s in-house clinic in suburban Philadelphia, treating clients who experience a range of challenges.