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Workshop Description
This course covers the key theories on worrying including intolerance of uncertainty, metacognitive beliefs, experiential avoidance and failures in problems solving.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is one of the commonest anxiety disorder and cognitive behavioural therapy is the first line treatment condition for this condition with several clinical trials supporting the interventions. Clients with generalised anxiety often suffer silently and worrying often affects their relationships. Therapists may find the incessant stream of worrying difficult to manage in sessions. Common techniques used for other anxiety disorders may not be as effective for generalised anxiety.
This course covers the key theories on worrying including intolerance of uncertainty, metacognitive beliefs, experiential avoidance and failures in problems solving.
A step by step protocol approach will convert the above theories into a practical framework for delivering intervention for GAD in clinical practice. The course is designed to use effective experiential and structured techniques to work towards skills mastery in treating clients with GAD.
Workshop Leaders:
Dr Sanjay Rao is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and Addl Professor of Psychiatry Dalhousie University. He has delivered over 250 workshops in CBT across UK, Canada and regularly presents at national and international conferences on CBT. He has expertise in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders and was the clinical director of the mood and anxiety programme at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. He was also the Clinical Lead for Improving Access to Structured Psychotherapy Programme in Ottawa.
He trains and supervises multidisciplinary teams including physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists and counsellors and has been on the forefront of CBT training in Canada. He developed and delivered province-wide CBT training in Nova Scotia.
As an executive member of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, he had the opportunity to support the development of CBT in Canada. He also served as an advisor the to the Psychotherapy group in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care to advise future design of structured psychotherapies in Ontario.
Dr Rao has trained in multiple schools of CBT and uses experiential skills to coach trainees improve their practice.
Dr Rao has been recently awarded Fellowship of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (CACBT-ACTCC) for contribution to the dissemination of CBT in Canada.
Kirstine Postma is a clinical psychologist at the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She has extensive clinical experience in CBT practice in UK and Canada.
Event Name
Integrated and Experiential CBT for Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Course/Workshop
For: Professionals
Provided by: IXT Mind - Experiential Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Date and Time
Fri Nov 30, 2018
(This event is over)
9:00 - 4:00pm
Event Description
Course attendees will receive a certificate of attendance from the Dept of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa.Workshop Description
This course covers the key theories on worrying including intolerance of uncertainty, metacognitive beliefs, experiential avoidance and failures in problems solving.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is one of the commonest anxiety disorder and cognitive behavioural therapy is the first line treatment condition for this condition with several clinical trials supporting the interventions. Clients with generalised anxiety often suffer silently and worrying often affects their relationships. Therapists may find the incessant stream of worrying difficult to manage in sessions. Common techniques used for other anxiety disorders may not be as effective for generalised anxiety.
This course covers the key theories on worrying including intolerance of uncertainty, metacognitive beliefs, experiential avoidance and failures in problems solving.
A step by step protocol approach will convert the above theories into a practical framework for delivering intervention for GAD in clinical practice. The course is designed to use effective experiential and structured techniques to work towards skills mastery in treating clients with GAD.
Workshop Leaders:
Dr Sanjay Rao is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and Addl Professor of Psychiatry Dalhousie University. He has delivered over 250 workshops in CBT across UK, Canada and regularly presents at national and international conferences on CBT. He has expertise in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders and was the clinical director of the mood and anxiety programme at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. He was also the Clinical Lead for Improving Access to Structured Psychotherapy Programme in Ottawa.
He trains and supervises multidisciplinary teams including physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists and counsellors and has been on the forefront of CBT training in Canada. He developed and delivered province-wide CBT training in Nova Scotia.
As an executive member of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, he had the opportunity to support the development of CBT in Canada. He also served as an advisor the to the Psychotherapy group in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care to advise future design of structured psychotherapies in Ontario.
Dr Rao has trained in multiple schools of CBT and uses experiential skills to coach trainees improve their practice.
Dr Rao has been recently awarded Fellowship of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (CACBT-ACTCC) for contribution to the dissemination of CBT in Canada.
Kirstine Postma is a clinical psychologist at the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She has extensive clinical experience in CBT practice in UK and Canada.
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