Current Evidence Based Practices (20 Hours)
Objectives
- Define Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and its basic principles
- Identify factors impacting people’s choice of behaviors
- Explore causes and impact of thinking errors
- Identify common thinking errors and their relationship to cognitive distortions
- Review the concept of solution focused interventions
- Envision how CBT can be used with patients with addictions and co-occurring disorders
- Discuss the mind-body connection and its applications in the counseling setting
- Define Mindlessness
- Define Mindfulness
- Differentiate between Mindfulness and Purposeful Action
- Identify how mindfulness can be useful in practice
- Explore several different mindfulness techniques and activities
- Identify the common symptoms for anxiety and depression-based disorders
- Learn how a positive change in one area or symptom can have positive effects on all symptoms or areas.
- Explore
- The function of each of those symptoms
- The potential causes of each of those symptoms
- Interventions for each of those symptoms