OCTOBER 2011

Dear [[DEAR]]

Welcome to the October CBT newsletter. In this edition's resource section we have material on using CBT with children & adolescents, the elderly, physical health, and various mental health applications; along with some interesting issues in the world of CBT, notices about CBT conferences worldwide and an update on the year's training events here in New Zealand. And to lighten up a little, don't miss the the '50 Ways to Leave Your Neuroses' video.

IN THIS EDITION

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• Resources for the practitioner

• Conference notices

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ROTORUA TRAINING EVENTS (November)

There are are still places available on all of the one-day workshops. The Primary Certificate in REBT course is almost full (there is still plenty of time to do the preparatory work if you would like to take advantage of one of the few remaning places). 

Primary Certificate in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: this ever-popular programme now incorporates a computer-based multimedia training tool which is making a significant difference to the level of expertise trainees are gaining. An innovative way to get a practice-based introduction to one of the major systems of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

One-day workshops are stand-alone events and you can attend them individually or combine them with each other and with the Certificated courses.

 

Workshop: Mindfulness - Mon 14 Nov                                                                         Places available

Practicum: Primary Certificate in REBT - Tue-Fri 15-18 Nov                                    Places available

Workshop: CBT with Clients Reacting to Traumatic Events - Sat 19 Nov             Places available

Workshop: CBT with Children & their Families - Sun 20 Nov                                  Places available

Workshop: Treating Chronic & Resistant Depression - Mon 21 Nov                      Places available   

 

Training quick links:

• Registration form

• Main training page

• Printable brochure

• Request multiple copies of brochure

 

CBT RESOURCES ON THE NET

Here's our latest selection of resources we have researched on the internet. To view any item, click on the highlighted part of its listing:

 

Assessment

• Assessing the Severity of Anxiety: is the Beck Anxiety Inventory a good tool? Study examines use of the BAI in primary care.

• Depression screening: No benefit - and possible harm - from routine depression screening?

Children & Adolescents

• Children with OCD: Cognitive behavior therapy seen as crucial treatment mode.

• Anxious children: Brain scan 'predicts if kids with anxiety disorder will respond to talk therapy' 

• New book: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for children and adolescents  

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Cognitive Behaviour treatment for children and young people with OCD. 

• Trauma: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for trauma in schools. 

• Depressed adolescents: CBT less effective when insomnia present. 

Elderly

• Depression: Visiting nurse service uses a special behavioural health program to identify and treat elderly home care patients at risk for depression.
• Depression in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: Cost-effectiveness analysis of cognitive behavioural treatment.
• Sleep problems: Study shows that brief behavioural treatment for insomnia is an effective intervention for older adults.

Physical health

• Referral to Talk Therapy cuts costs & improves outcomes for physical health problems exerienced by people with mental health problems.
• Pain management: Self-help CBT may help with medically unexplained, functional or psychogenic symptoms, such as pain, weakness,and fatigue.
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Mindfulness training appears to substantially reduce IBS symptoms by teaching patients to avoid focusing on gastric sensations and reducing anxiety, according to a randomised controlled trial.
• Depressed cardiac patients: Study shows that combined CBT group therapy helps .
• Is Insomnia a Disease? Or is it a normal part of life that's been medicalized by available treatment?

Psychosis

• Schizophrenia: novel cognitive therapy program may improve outcomes in low-functioning patients with schizophrenia.
• Schizophrenia: Article advocates Cognitive Therapy for negative symptoms.
• Psychosis: Can CBT change the brain?
• Schizophrenia: Structured Relaxation Shows Promise as Akathisia Treatment.
• Early intervention in psychosis recommended. 

Anxiety

• Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia: Study examines why effectiveness of CBT sometimes reduced.
• Social Anxiety: Cognitive Therapy better than Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
• Postpartum obsessive compulsiveness: Expectant mothers at risk for developing postpartum obsessive compulsive symptoms show lower levels after undergoing a cognitive-behavioral prevention program as part of childbirth education classes.

Depression

• Depression in people with a somatic disease: Study shows Cognitive Behaviour Therapy effective.
• Adding rumination-focused cognitive behaviour therapy to standard treatment can decrease persistent depression, new research suggests. 
• 'Positive Thinking' depression remedy raises controversy.
• Primary Care: Study suggests that GP management of Post-Natal Depression augmented by a CBT-counselling package better than GP management alone.

Miscellaneous applications of CBT

• Addiction: Innovative Indian Centre treated 19,000 people for various types of addiction using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Study suggests that CBT group therapy effective in treating adult ADHD.
• Eating disorders: Interview with Professor Chris Fairburn.
• Eating disorders: Train your brain to crave healthy food.

Therapy in general

•  '50 Ways to Leave Your Neuroses': Amusing musical tribute on YouTube to the late Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (the original CBT model, on which Ellis first published in 1955).
• Beck Institute changes its name: The Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy has been renamed the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. The Institute's website states that Cognitive Therapy (the CBT model developed by Aaron Beck in the early 1960's) will in future be known as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
• Cinema therapy: Using movies to enhance standard Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
• Improving access to Cognitive Behavioural treatment: Australian initiative.
• Practicing what we preach: Dying psychologist uses REBT on himself.
• The Problem with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Review of the recent book by Hall & Iqbal critiquing CBT.

New Technology: CBT & the Internet

• Computerised CBT: Study to examine use of social networking websites to aid therapy.
• Internet-based CBT (ICBT) shown to be effective for OCD.
• Internet-based Cognitive-behavioural Treatment for Depression: new study of user's experiences,
• Panic disorder: Internet-based CBT shown to be effective.

Websites of Note

•  GET Self Help: Website with a huge collection of resources you can print out for your clients.

CONFERENCE UPDATE

• 34th AACBT National Conference: Sydney, 26-30 Oct 2011.

• AnzaCBT Conference: Wellington, 18 Nov 2011.

• British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies: 40th Annual Conference and Workshops, Leeds University, 26-29 June 2012.

• European Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies: 42nd Annual Congress, Geneva, 29 Aug - 1 September 2012.

• International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy: Triannual Congress, Hong Kong, 24-27 June 2014.

Do you have any CBT-related news items, or know of any conferences, articles or websites that would be of interest to your colleagues around the country and around the world? Let us know and we will add them to the next newsletter.

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