CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms
Dive deep into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), revolutionize your pain management practice and significantly enhance your patient outcomes. This immersive online course is designed to equip healthcare professionals with cutting-edge skills and knowledge to provide true psychologically-informed care that gets to the real root of issues your most challenging patients face. Whether you're looking to refine your therapeutic approaches or integrate new strategies into your practice, this course will empower you to elevate your expertise and effectiveness!
Virtual: Self-Paced
Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
👉 ~12 hours of required viewing + ~6 hours of optional viewing and demonstrations
$697 (tax included)
Course Description
This virtual learning experience will focus on improving your ability to identify & work with pain related beliefs and distress in your rehabilitation or psychotherapy practice. An individual’s beliefs, thoughts, and emotions will influence their physiology, their experience of their symptoms and how they engage in their unique recovery.Your effectiveness as a practitioner is determined largely by your capacity to intentionally identify and address these factors. However, these are skills that are not taught in most traditional physical rehabilitation programs.
Additionally, mental health professionals aren’t always taught how to support their clients with navigating beliefs and behaviours related to physical sensations like pain.Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to learn and practice techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that will improve your therapeutic relationship with your clients, improve your capacity to help them navigate the distress related to their symptoms, and enhance your impact.
This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals interested in enhancing their psychologically-informed practice.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
1) Describe psychological processes that influence recovery in physical rehabilitation settings.
2) Guide patients in identifying key components of their experience with distressing symptoms, including physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours.
3) Apply CBT-informed strategies in clinical practice to:
-support nervous system regulation
-identify unhelpful thinking patterns
-introduce cognitive countering strategies to evaluate and shift distressing thoughts
-develop behavioural experiments and graded exposure hierarchies to address avoidance
4) Describe foundational principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and apply strategies that support psychological flexibility in rehabilitation contexts.
5) Use a CBT-informed framework to conceptualize the interaction between thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours in patients experiencing distressing symptoms.
6) Collaborate with clients to adapt strategies when progress stalls or treatment plans need adjustment.
Meet the Facilitator
Meet Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
This Knowledge Project will be Facilitated by AMP’s Director, Lara Desrosiers. Lara is an Occupational Therapist who has worked in community mental health settings since graduating from McMaster University in 2009. She has a passion for mental health and several years of experience addressing mental illness, trauma, and addiction using occupational therapy frameworks & psychotherapeutic technique.
Lara now operates a private practice, Pelvic Resilience in Ontario where she supports individuals struggling with persistent pain and pelvic health challenges to get back to living life. Lara enjoys supporting multidisciplinary audiences with building impactful psychologically-informed and trauma-informed practices.
Assessment & Certification
Participants will be expected to complete all of the self-paced modules and practice reflections.
Upon completion, AMP Healthcare Education will collect participant evaluations of the overall learning experience.
Participants will receive a course certificate upon competition of course requirements.
Target Audience
This course is designed for Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists as well as other rehabilitation and mental health providers looking to gain evidence and skills for applying psychotherapeutic skill (CBT and ACT informed approaches) to supporting individuals struggling with pain and other distressing physical symptoms.
No expertise or previous learning in the content area is required.
Course Features
~12 hours of required viewing broken up into bite sized, digestible lessons.
Reflections, prompts & missions throughout to help you integrate and apply what you are learning.
A myriad of practice resources to download and keep for your use personally and clinically.
~3 hours of bonus optional viewing to dive deeper into the topics that most interest you.
A demonstration library to watch these skills in action.
Access to the instructor's monthly office hours for 1 year from purchase to get the live support you need with putting these skills into practice!
Office hours take place on the first Friday of every month from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST (some exceptions for holidays).
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