Evidence Based Techniques for Working Effectively with the Five Most Challenging Client Groups

Attend this seminar and learn how you can develop and further modify CBT, DBT and Schema Therapy techniques you currently use to achieve faster results with five groups of clients including:

• The Chronically Depressed Client
• The Highly Anxious Client that has difficulty responding to treatment
• The Angry-Volatile Client
• The Client with Drug Misuse Issues
• The Client with Personality Disorder

This seminar will teach you a comprehensive multi-modal approach and provide you with multiple cognitive and behavioural strategies that you can integrate into your practice. Learn in-depth schema focused interventions that are useful for addressing more difficult clinical problems.

You will learn about:

• multiple cognitive and behavioural strategies that you can integrate into your practice in order to immediately improve client outcomes
• In-depth schema focused interventions that are useful for addressing more persistent clinical and behavioural problems such as self-sabotaging and/or risk taking behaviours, chronic depression and anxiety, suicidality, substance misuse.
• cognitive conceptualizations for multiple difficult to address symptom sets.
• the role of maladaptive schemas in information processing and communication breakdowns.
• modifying schemas that drive persistently chronic or problematic behaviours.
• strategies for regulating emotions
• challenging behaviours that are used as a communication strategy.

• APS: Activities do not need to be endorsed by APS. Members can accrue 7 CPD hours by participating in this activity
• AASW: Members can accrue 7 CPD hours by participating in this activity
• ACA: Members can accrue 5 CPD points by participating in this activity

A certificate of attendance will be emailed to participants following the workshop.