Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Concepts and Applications to Clinical Practice

9:00a-12:00p ET

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, REAT 

NASW-NYS Members: $30

NASW Other Chapter Member: $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic approach that focuses on teaching coping skills to target psychological problems.  The CBT approach is an evidence-based therapeutic approach and can be applied across many diagnostic categories and treatment populations. This practical course will provide an overview of the principles and practice of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), an empirically validated treatment model and framework for treating a variety of mental health concerns. In addition to describing the theoretical context for this model, this course will offer a practical skills approach for  direct utilization in clinical settings. . A diversity of current approaches within the CBT paradigm will be reviewed, including: CBT, REBT, ACT, Schema, and Trail Based Cognitive models. This course will describe the  cross-cutting techniques across all sub-groups, and also understand the differences between these approaches. The course will include in-class exercises, role-plays, and case application review.

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the theoretical framework of CBT
• Explain how to apply a CBT perspective to a case.
• Describe ways to apply a variety of cognitive, behavioral, mindfulness, sensory and mind-body skills within the CBT framework.

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, REAT is an award-winning intermodal artist, thinker, educator, and neuroscience-informed psychotherapist. Thinking and working integratively are innate to Dr. Mathew's intellectual inquiry and creative art-making method. Dr. Mathew's therapeutic expressive arts philosophy is grounded in several core principles which comprises her approach to healing, teaching, and training. Dr. Mathew's therapeutic worldview is a narratology-narrative therapy lens. This intersects with a commitment to understanding the complex identities we hold including class, culture, location, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and accessibility. Dr. Mathew begins her understanding of a person in the context of time, place, and culture.