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Feeling Good Now!
Rapid Recovery Techiques
For Depression and Low Self-Esteem
David Burns, MD
Earn 13 CE/CME Hours
 When Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy was first published in 1980, most people had never heard of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Now CBT has
become the most widely practiced and intensively researched form of therapy in the United States. Although the initial techniques developed in the mid-1970s
have been extraordinarily helpful to individuals suffering from depression and low self-esteem, numerous innovations since that time have revolutionized the
treatment. The skillful use of these new approaches often results in rapid recovery. In fact, many patients who used to require months of intensive therapy
can now be helped in just a handful of sessions, and will sometimes respond in a single session. In this exciting new workshop, Dr. Burns will illustrate
treatment innovations that focus on five vitally important areas: assessment, empathy, motivation, technique, and the structure of the treatment itself. He will
illustrate how to treat patients with unipolar and bipolar mood disorders and will bring these new methods to life with live demonstrations with audience volunteers.
Most of us occasionally succumb to the same feelings of insecurity, self
-criticism and self-doubt that plague our patients, particularly when we're working with challenging, oppositional, or suicidal clients. It's easy to feel
anxious, ashamed, inadequate, angry, frustrated, and overwhelmed when treating these individuals. Of course, we all experience conflicts and disappointments from time to time in our relationships with colleagues, family
members, and friends as well. Dr. Burns will emphasize the importance of healing yourself if you want to offer truly effective
treatment for your patients. Come prepared to roll up your sleeves and learn from one of America's most popular workshop leaders.
Workshop Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Monitor therapeutic progress accurately at every therapy session
- Detect suicidal urges and prevent suicide attempts
- Develop a warm and trusting therapeutic alliance with hostile, critical, mistrustful patients
- Diagnose the eight most common forms of therapeutic resistance
- Motivate passive, oppositional patients
- Understand countertransference from a cognitive therapy perspective
- Implement high-speed, rapid recovery techniques
- Distinguish the Self-Defense Paradigm vs. the Acceptance Paradox
- Master effective Relapse Prevention techniques
- Help your patients overcome depression and develop greater self-esteem
- Heal yourself and overcome your own feelings of anxiety, self-doubt, and despair
- Integrate the new CBT with your patients', spiritual beliefs
Who Should Attend
All mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses,
therapists, alcohol & drug counsellors, employee assistance counsellors, school counsellors, youth workers, sexual abuse
counsellors, vocational rehabilitation consultants, social service co-ordinators, street workers, and crisis counsellors who
work directly with clients and are seeking practical, proven methods to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Agenda
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Day 1
8:30 am - 10:15 am
- What is depression? What is
self-esteem?
- Systematic monitoring techniques that boost treatment effectiveness
- Is effective suicide prevention possible?
- Research update: What have we learned about effective treatment in the past 30 years?n
- 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
- Are quick cures possible? Or even desirable?
- Powerful Relapse Prevention Techniques
- 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Optional Luncheon Presentation
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The
Man Who Killed Philosophy
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
- Healing Yourself: Live demonstration
- Self-Defense vs. the Acceptance Paradox
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Therapeutic Empathy: Are we as good as we think?
- How to empathize with the angry, mistrustful patient: Live demonstration
4:30 pm Adjourn
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Day 2
8:30 am - 10:15 am
- The magic of the set-up
- The eight types of therapeutic resistance
- Making patients accountable: Paradoxical Agenda-Setting Techniques
10:15 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
- Getting down to root causes: Psychoanalysis at warp speed
- What are your Self-Defeating Beliefs?
- How to modify a Self-Defeating Belief: Live demonstration
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Optional Luncheon Presentation
Update on the EASY Diagnostic System
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
- How to select the most effective techniques for each patient
- The bipolar patient: Can CBT help?
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Self-esteem: What Is it? How do I get it? How do I get rid of it once I've got it?
- Practical Buddhism: The Pleasure-Predicting Sheet
- CBT and Spirituality: Integrating the Religious and Psychological Perspectives on Suffering
Self-Esteem
4:30 pm Adjourn
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Dates and Locations __________
Sept. 19-20, 2008
Sheraton Phoenix Airport
1600 S. 52nd Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
(480) 967-6600
Sept. 25-26,2008
Handlery Hotel and Resort
950 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA 92108
(619) 298-0511
Oct. 10-11, 2008
Holiday Inn Select, Love Field
3300 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX 75235
(214) 357-8500
Oct. 24-25, 2008
Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown
1100 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
(734) 769-9800
Nov. 6-7, 2008
TBA
Denver, CO
Dec. 4-5, 2008
Holliday Inn Baltimore Towson
1100 Cromwell Bridge Road
Towson, MD
(410) 823-4410
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 AM and the workshop hours are 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM with lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. There will be two fifteen minute breaks.
Continuing Education Credit
Please see Continuing Education Page
Registration Information
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
$269 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$289
Regular registration (on-site reg. is $309, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone. Please call for availability. Additional information will be required.
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