This week’s DVD offer! CBT for Couples – with Dr Frank M Dattilio Ph.D

This week our colleagues at SDS Seminars are running a BPS Approved training seminar on CBT for Couples. It’s a popular course so we thought that you might be interested in learning more on this subject.

Our DVD offer this week is a 5 disc set. Comprehensive CBT for Couples - Frank M Dattilio, Ph.D., ABPP.
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Comprehensive-Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-CBT-for-Couples

This 6-hour seminar will provide you with all the essential strategies and techniques of Cognitive -Behavioural Therapy in your work with couples.

Dr. Dattilio describes the most effective ways of integrating a CBT approach into your clinical practice. Relevant for a wide range of counselling professionals. Recorded live from the seminar these DVDs will let you feel part of the audience.
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Comprehensive-Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-CBT-for-Couples

Key Learning Points:

• Effective cognitive-behavioural techniques for working with challenging couples.
• Core schemas and the cognitive distortions that affect relationship dysfunction.
• When to use cognitive vs. behavioural techniques.
• Effective methods of clinical assessment and ways to formulate a plan of intervention.
• When cognitive-behavioural techniques are inappropriate.
• How to maintain cultural sensitivity.
• How to deal with roadblocks and resistance to change.
• How to address the potential for relapse.

Brief Outline:

• Historical Development of CBT with Couples
• Cognitive-Behavioural strategies with couples. Cognition, affect, and behaviour.
• Combined perspectives within a systems framework.
• Role of attachment and issues of vulnerability. Role of core beliefs & schemas.
• Assessment Techniques and Case Conceptualization.
• Conjoint and individual interviews. Use of various assessment measures.
• Development of case conceptualization. Dysfunctional automatic thoughts.
• Assessing personality and other disorders.
• Cognitive & Behavioural Techniques and Procedures for Couples.

As well as 6 CPD hours. This DVD is especially discounted for you. £20 off the regular price if you order within the next 24 hours!

Don’t forget to order online by noon on the 15th November to get the discount. Follow the link below.
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Comprehensive-Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-CBT-for-Couples

Kind regards

Exposure & Response Prevention for OCD - 50% off for 24 hours only!

We have another fantastic saving for you this week with a huge 50% off Exposure & Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, with Dr Fiona Kennedy & Paul Grantham.

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Exposure-Response-Prevention-for-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the most disabling mental health problems. However, there is also an excellent research base supporting the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in enabling clients to overcome this. Treatment consists of the identification of triggers to the obsessive thoughts (typically thoughts of a specified or unspecified disaster) and exposure to them. This is combined with “response prevention” i.e. resistance to engaging in the compulsive behaviour that such obsessive thoughts typically trigger. Detailed guidance illustrated with a particular case demonstrates how this technique can be effectively used.

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Exposure-Response-Prevention-for-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder

Consultant Clinical Psychologist Paul Grantham interviews Dr Fiona Kennedy on her perspective of helping clients struggling with OCD by using Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy. Dr Kennedy shares the theoretical background, research evidence and her own views and ideas on application of ERP to work with this group of clients.

This is then followed by an expert demonstration of the use of the principles discussed in the interview by Dr Kennedy in TWO LIVE client sessions. The sessions start, unfold and finish in front of the viewer.

Client: Carl (27) presents with OCD problems. These manifest themselves as a desire for symmetry regarding any books, magazines or paperwork. Any piles of papers on a table have to be straightened, any piles of magazines have to be in piles of multiples of four. Any “extras” have to be in their own pile. Books on shelves need to be in groups of four as well and any “extras” here need to be turned on their sides on the book case. He has an unspecified fear of something “bad” or “catastrophic” happening if he doesn’t check these items in a room or if he doesn’t order them as he wants.

Don’t miss out on this great saving. Order it today and get 50% off the regular price.
This great offer expires at noon tomorrow, 2nd November, so don’t miss it!

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Exposure-Response-Prevention-for-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder

This DVD also comes with a certificate for 2 CPD hours

The Stanford Prison Experiment - New DVD Offer!!

This week’s new DVD is something a little bit different!

Phil Zimbardo on the Stanford Prison Experiment, Evil and Heroism - 2 Hour DVD
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Phil-Zimbardo-on-the-Stanford-Prison-Experiment-Evil-and-Heroism

Dr. Philip Zimbardo led the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment in order to answer the question, “What happens when you put good people in an evil place?” This question served as a through line over the course of Zimbardo’s long career; in this interview with Victor Yalom, the Stanford emeritus professor of psychology speaks in-depth on the study, its lessons, and its relationship to the Abu Ghraib trials decades later.

As clinicians, we seek to support individual change. But to what extent are we influenced by the institutions that surround us? Can we ignore the role of systems in our work with clients, or does treatment involve addressing one’s environment as well? In this video, Dr Philip Zimbardo illuminates the longstanding nature vs. nurture debate in a deep discussion about evil, heroism, and the psychological conditions that impact which way we turn. Here, the former APA president and leader of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment goes back decades to tell us the story of its participants, the ways in which we internalise the roles given to us, and the compelling ways these factors are still playing out today.

Over the course of his long career, Dr Zimbardo has tackled the question of morality, seeking to understand the power of situations over individuals that lead to corruption and compliance. The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment was the most notorious of his studies, and here Zimbardo describes its methodology, goals, unravelling, and abrupt cancellation after only six days of its planned two-week run. You’ll watch him reflect on the harsh conditions leading a college-aged group of “otherwise good people” to turn against each other, and hear about his ongoing regrets commingled with important lessons about human nature.

Discussing issues such as compliance (what causes us to look the other way), learned helplessness (through the gradual acclimation to fearful situations), and “the illusion of personal invulnerability”—the idea that we would make better choices in similar situations. He goes on to discuss his work as an analyst during the Abu Ghraib trials, bringing his expertise to bear on the psychological processes at work among the guards.

Ultimately, though, Zimbardo’s objective is hopeful: to uncover what inspires heroic acts and promote the development of our collective moral compass. If you’re interested in understanding how psychological and systemic forces create good or evil, you won’t want to miss this compelling interview.

Take a look at the full details by following the link below. We are sure you will find it extremely interesting.
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Phil-Zimbardo-on-the-Stanford-Prison-Experiment-Evil-and-Heroism

As usual we are offering our valued customers a discount on this DVD if you order within the next 24 hours - £10 off plus a CPD certificate for two hours.

We hope you enjoy it.

Kind regards

New DVD Offer! - Hardwiring Happiness, the New Brain Science

Our DVD offer this week features Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence.

This 3 DVD set features Neuropsychologist, international speaker, and bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and his newest book, Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Hardwiring-Happiness-The-New-Brain-Science-of-Contentment-Calm-and-Confidence

Based on his latest book, Hardwiring Happiness, this workshop presents the four simple HEAL steps of taking in the good, which turn passing experiences into lasting neural resources.

It explores how to use these methods to lower anxiety and stress, lift mood, grow confidence, calm, and contentment, and fundamentally, hardwire happiness into the brain.

The mind shapes the brain. Neurons that fire together, wire together.

Positive experiences are the main source of the neural structures underlying positive mood, resilience, feeling loved, the executive functions, and other inner strengths. Unfortunately, most positive experiences are wasted on the brain because it evolved a negativity bias to help our ancestors survive. It’s like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.

You will learn many practical ways to help your clients overcome this negative bias; which is disheartening, flattens learning curves, undermines compliance and progress in treatment, and fosters drop outs or relapsing. And instead draw upon the positive experiences available in both treatment and everyday life to weave strength and happiness into the fabric of their brain and their life.

In addition to teaching general-purpose methods for deliberately internalising positive experiences – taking in the good – the workshop will explore how to identify and use key resource experiences to soothe and even heal clinical issues related to the three fundamental systems of the brain:
Avoiding Harms, Approaching Rewards, & Attaching to others.

These methods include how to skilfully hold both positive and negative material in awareness so that, “as neurons fire together, they wire together”. The positive factors connect with, dampen, and gradually replace the negative ones.

The workshop also covers applications to particular populations and needs, notably trauma, children, plus addiction & recovery. Follow the link below for much more information.

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Hardwiring-Happiness-The-New-Brain-Science-of-Contentment-Calm-and-Confidence

PROMOTIONAL OFFER!
Order this 3 disc DVD set today to save a huge £30 off the regular price.
Offer expires tomorrow at midday!

You will also receive a certificate for 6 CPD Hours

DBT with Suicidal Clients - New DVD with an Introductory Offer!

Borderline, suicidal, and self-harming clients are some of the most challenging populations therapists face.

Regardless of our level of clinical expertise, it is crucial to master risk assessment, working with ambivalence, and managing reactivity—all whilst staying centred ourselves!

We can all use support with these issues, and the venerable Dialectical Behaviour Therapy creator Marsha Linehan certainly delivers with this powerful two-video set. In this “grand rounds” offering, Ms Linehan demonstrates key interventions of the approach in the context of a live re-enactment of therapy with a suicidal client. You’ll watch the pair connect, tussle, and ultimately negotiate their way through a high-risk situation.

DBT with Suicidal Clients is vital for anyone who deals with suicidal and self-harming or self- destructive clients.  This new 2 DVD box set comes with 3 CPD hours and today we are offering a huge £10 off the set!

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/DBT-with-Suicidal-Clients

Marsha Linehan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Washington. She is Director of the Behavioural Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioural models to suicidal behaviours, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.

Marsha is the developer of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviours and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation.

DON’T MISS OUR INTRODUCTORY OFFER!
Order today to save a £10 off this DVD
Offer expires tomorrow at midday

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/DBT-with-Suicidal-Clients

Best wishes

Experiential Family Therapy – Live Sessions DVD

In family therapy, we often feel as though we’re witnessing a battle—but in this video, Carl Whitaker demonstrates that therapists must be willing to do battle with the family in order to truly help them overcome their dysfunction.

EXPERIENTIAL FAMILY THERAPY - 2 CPD HOURS
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Experiential-Family-Therapy

Uncovering entrenched patterns and generating fruitful cross-dialogue aren’t easy therapeutic tasks, but Whitaker leaves no stone unturned in THIS TWO-SESSION VIDEO showcasing the late master’s provocative style and pioneering approach to family systems therapy. In this rare set of LIVE SESSIONS, you’ll deepen your understanding of Whitaker’s theories and the experiential dynamics that make family therapy successful.

PURCHASE THIS DVD TODAY WITH £15 DISCOUNT AND ENJOY!
http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/Experiential-Family-Therapy

Offer ends at midday 17 June 2015. 

James Hillman Tribute

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James Hillman, a charismatic therapist and best-selling author whose theories about the psyche helped revive interest in the ideas of Carl Jung, animating the so-called men’s movement in the 1990s and stirring the pop-cultural air, died on Thursday 27 October 2011, at his home in Thompson, Conn. He was 85.

James Hillman was one of the most inspirational contemporary thinkers in psychotherapy field. His thought-provoking and soulful ideas will be greatly missed.

Read New York Times tribute: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/health/james-hillman-therapist-in-mens-movement-dies-at-85.html

Watch DVD trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFng0WCJ8X8&feature=related

Buy James Hillman's DVDs: http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/James-Hillman-Set

Our video tribute to this extraordinary man:

Major Depression and Negative Mindset

A recent study has found further evidence that people suffering with Major Depression are stuck in a negative mindset, and re-live their negative experiences again and again in their mind.

In the study 26 people with depression and 27 people who had never had depression were sat in front of a computer and shown three words, one at a time. They were told to remember the words either in the order they were presented or in reverse order. The computer then presented one of the three words and they were supposed to respond as quickly as they could whether that word was first, second, or third in the list.

People with depression had trouble re-ordering the words in their head; if they were asked to remember the words in reverse order, they took longer to give the correct answer. They had a particularly hard time if the three words had negative meanings, like "death" or "sadness."

But therapy techniques such as motivational interviewing, brief solution focused therapy or positive therapy could prove to be very useful at helping clients change their mindset and thinking and allow them to move on with their lives, which they may not be able to do without guidance.

All of these psychological skills are available from the Skills Development Service:
Motivational Interviewing
Brief Solution Focused Therapy
Positive Therapy

Interested in all these courses? Then why not go for our certificate in Resource Based Therapy course.
Certificate in Resource Based Therapy

Psychotherapy DVDs are also offering an 8 Disk CBT Training Package, offering 14 CPD hours: Essential CBT Skills Series - 8 DVDs Set - 14 CPD Hours

More Essential CBT Skills!

Head on over to http://www.psychotherapydvds.com for more information on this brilliant 8 disk set!

Essential CBT Skills

Our 8 DVD Set on Essential CBT Skills launched today at PsychotherapyDVDs.com: 8 DVD set "Essential CBT Skills"

Watch the trailer:
Essential CBT Skills Trailer

and browse all 8 titles of this comprehensive collection of essential CBT techniques:
All 8 CBT Titles

This unique training set produced in the UK by Accredited CBT Therapists with vast clinical experience is available exclusively at www.psychotherapydvds.com

We hope to see you on our website soon!

Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients

Have a look at this video clip with Dr Christine Padesky doing CBT with a client:

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This is a preview from a new DVD training pack available at Psychotherapydvds.com – part 2 of the series “Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients”:

Psychotherapy with Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Clients vol 2

This training pack “Individual Assessment and Psychotherapy” explores with you the effectiveness of cognitive therapy with this population, implications of internalized homophobia and the importance of hypothesis testing in therapy, assessment of presenting problems and stages of identity development for GLB clients and much more.

The training therapy sessions by Dr Padesky within this DVD are award winning as an outstanding training demonstration for both students and experienced psychotherapists.

This DVD is a part of a 7 DVD Training Set: Psychotherapy with Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Clients set , which is currently offered to you at a promotional price, with £40 off.

If you prefer to buy individual DVDs in the series – they are on offer in our VIP zone: Special Prices for Registered Customers

Just log in and save on individual titles.


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CERTIFICATE IN RESOURCE BASED THERAPIES - FAQ

As you know in the autumn we are running our first 4 days course “CERTIFICATE IN RESOURCE BASED THERAPIES” approved by BPS Learning Centre for CPD. http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/seminars.php?courseid=76

The course generates a lot of interest as it is a fresh and innovative approach to complex cases that builds on training courses that you have already attended with us in the past. We asked Paul Grantham to answer some of the questions about this course that frequently raised in your e-mails. That what he said:

Q1: SDS has just introduced a new training course – A Certificate in Resource Based Therapies. What is this course about and how is it different to everything you’ve been doing before?

PG: We thought it was time to bring together different strands from the training we have been providing over the last couple of years and develop a new course around them. The course is modular and based on three separate evidence based therapeutic approaches – Positive Psychology, Brief Solution Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. The course is run over a four day period which can be worked through as a whole block or in a modular manner. The certificated course has also just been approved by The British Psychological Society Learning Centre and is accompanied by an optional assessed examination.

Q2: Why do you think there is a need for such a course if it is based on variety of therapeutic approaches that already exist? What are the advantages in bringing them together?

PG: The simple answer to this is that there is considerable overlap and shared theoretical underpinnings to the three approaches. Firstly, they are all evidence based, in other words there are good psychological experimental underpinnings to the theories, process and interventions. The need to demonstrate a strong evidence base to any psychotherapeutic approach is not going to go away and it is rightly a key touchstone for any therapy we might be using. However, CBT does not have a monopoly on psychotherapeutic effectiveness and these approaches happily live along side it. Secondly, all three approaches are resource based in assumption, in other words they focus on what the client already has which enables them to thrive, and looks at how to amplify it. Motivational Interviewing draws strongly on Roger's ideas regarding clients' intrinsic motivation and has placed client perceptions of benefits and negative consequences at the centre of its approach. Brief Solution, of course , lives by the mantra of "There's nothing wrong with you that what's right with you, couldn't fix" and Positive Psychology's focus on Strengths via the VIA again focuses on clients’ existing resources. Thirdly, as a result of the above, all three are outcome, thriving and future focused rather than causal, deficit and past focused. And this is still a relatively rare common feature in most psychotherapeutic approaches. Finally, all three utilise brief and practical interventions to facilitate change.

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Q6: On the practical side of things – four day courses might be quite expensive – are there ways to budget for this course without spending much straightaway?

PG: This course is modular. Hence although you can sign up for all four modules at once (and there is a fee reduction if you do this), you can sign up for individual modules as well. This allows delegates to spread the cost according to their budget. This, combined with the typically low fees that SDS charges in comparison with many other training providers makes this one of the most financially accessible psychotherapy courses currently available.

TO READ THE WHOLE INTERVIEW GO TO: http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/images/appl_form/RBT%20Interview%20May%202010.pdf

If you are not sure what modules of the course you have already done – please feel free to contact me directly – I will check it in our records and let you know what modules you need to take up in order to complete the full course. You can contact me directly via our enquiry page: http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/contact.html

Start your comment with “RBT Course Enquiry for JB” and I will reply to you ASAP.

A COUPLE OF REMINDERS:

Our seminar “ANGER THERAPY: HATRED, HOSTILITY & BITTERNESS” is running currently around the UK with great success. If you missed your opportunity to attend it now - it will run ONE DAY in London in September. The early bird discount of £24 is still available for that particular date. Book now to make sure that you receive a discount and reserve your place (some venues are almost fully booked now).

Don’t forget – you can enter a monthly draw with a top price of a free place on our one day courses by registering on http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/contact.html . The winner of the May draw was Amanda Evans, with two runners-up who received their prizes.

If you register on www.psychotherapydvds.com you can participate in a monthly draw with a free psychotherapy DVD as your prize. Don’t forget to CONFIRM YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS when register on this site. Otherwise your registration is not complete and you cannot enter the draw.

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Julia Budnik

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Whats going to happen to CBT after IAPT is cut back ?

Well...the writing is on the wall. IAPT looks like its in the frontline for public spending cuts.

The Observer this month says that the The Iapt Expert Reference Group (that oversees the project) has been informed that IAPT is failing to meet its targets in a big way - both in training the number of therapists needed, and in the number of people who have come off of benefits as a result of interventions made. Many staff are being asked to reapply for their jobs and the remaining £100 million allocated will not be ringfenced but will be incorporated into local NHS Trusts' budgets - to be spent as they wish. This will almost inevitably mean that traditional mental health priorities will re-establish themselves and that those perceived as "the worried well" will be left out.

The interesting question is whatb is going to happen to CBT as a result ? There are undoubtedly many who are secretly happy to see what is going to happen. Whenever someone grabs a large share of the pie ( and nearly £200 million is a VERY large share) it creates powerful reactions - jealousies amongst non-CBTers who feel unjustifiably excluded, fear amongst traditional CBTers - of which I must count some in my own profession - who fear poorer qualified (and cheaper) therapists taking their jobs.

However, I have strong suspicions that the CBT project is not dead in the water and will continue and even thrive - except in a slightly different format. Here are my predictions for CBT for the next 10 years.

(1) CBT will continue to thrive because both governments and insurance companies (the main funders and benchmarkers of therapy) want evidence that what they fund works and has a clear time limited structure to it. Whatever some people think about the application of RCTs and experimental paradigms to therapeutic outcomes,they are a continuing and growing part of the Zeitgeist we are a part of, and at present CBT is really the only show in town.

(2) CBT will fit in well to the developing mixed economy in mental health that will grow with increasing speed. There will be more people wanting to see CBT therapists on a private basis and CBT will infiltrate (even further) organisations interested in behaviour change. The Welfare-to-Work and the Criminal Justice sectors being obvious first past the post candidates.

(3) The concept of Accredited CBT Therapist will continue to be an aspirational gold standard for many, but will lose its exclusive cache. Expect to see "Non-Accredited" CBTers fulfilling important roles and a greater variation in the types and length of training on offer.

At SDS, we have long been convinced of the need for shorter intensive CBT course that are recognised (our Introductory 3 day course is Approved by The British Psychological Society) but which do not place the same heavy demands on trainees that BABCP Accreditation requires. If you are interested in such a course, by the way, details can be found at http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/seminars.php?courseid=69

Equally expect distance learning methods to gain pace from training DVD packs (www.psychotherapydvds.com) to webcam conferences.

(4) Finally, we will see other forms of psychotherapy coming to the fore again. These will be those that have learnt the importance of published outcome work as a marketing tool and who already have some footholds within the establishment. Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy and Interpersonal Psyschotherapy seem obvious candidates. Those that fight a rearguard action against registration and regulation (you know who you are) and who totally dismiss the value of empirical research will disappear even further into the shadows

Whatever happens, its likely that even a partially completed IAPT will leave its mark on the landscape. In my opinion, for the better. Which is reassuring really. I'd hate to think that £75 million was spend and its effects disappear without a trace.

Paul Grantham
Consultant Clinical Psychologist