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The Basics of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
• Classical and operant conditioning
• Social modelling
• Behavioural techniques and methods
• The impact of cognitions and emotions on one’s own experience
• Cognitive methods and techniques
• The nature of automatic thoughts
• Evaluating automatic thoughts
• Patterns in automatic thoughts
• Identifying distortions in automatic thoughts
• Rules and assumptions
• Core beliefs

CBT Approaches to Behavioural Change
• Ellis’ 'Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy'
• Gender stereotyping, gender and the media
• The basic philosophy and fundamental principles of rational emotive behavioural therapy: - Goals - Applications - Therapeutic style - Types of beliefs - Process of therapy
• Identify your own irrational beliefs
• Distinguish between irrational and rational beliefs
• Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions

Behavioural Interventions
• Self-monitoring
• Exposure therapy
• Relaxation methods
• Progressive relaxation and applied relaxation
• Systematic desensitization
• Exposure therapy
• Assertiveness training
• Behavioural experiments
• Behavioural activation

Cognitive Techniques and Skills
• CBT and the counselling relationship
• Key CBT microskills
• Understanding and applying cognitive techniques
• The 'Daily Record of Dysfunctional Thoughts' (DRDT)
• The 'Downward Arrow Technique'
• The 'Dysfunctional Attitude Scale'
• Socratic questioning and guided discovery

Application of CBT for depression, relationships and addictions
• A cognitive perspective on depression, relationships and addictions.
• Mind reading in relationships, misreading the signals.
• The role of expectations in relationships. Symbolism in relationships. The negative effects of prejudicial thinking.
• Changing our perspective. Effective listening.
• Identifying relations between thoughts, moods and behaviours. Questioning and evaluating negative automatic thoughts. Identifying and correcting cognitive distortions.
• Recording thoughts. Targeting assumptions and beliefs.
• Behavioural experiments.

CBT for Anxiety
• The symptoms of anxiety
• Phobias
• Psychosocial fears
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• The problem of egocentric thinking
• The hostility sequence
• Self-esteem, self-image and CBT
• Self-esteem, anger and hostility