Brief CBT with Children and Young People - Part 2

Brief CBT with Children and Young People - Part 2

This workshop is a follow up to the Brief CBT with Children and Young People - Part 1. 

If you have not already attended Part 1, you can buy a ticket for the next live presentation of Part 1 by clicking here 

Alternatively, you can take Part 1 online by clicking here 

The workshop provides specific guidance on practical techniques as described in the book Brief CBT for Young People by Alison Triste (2023) with a focus on emotions such as anger anxiety and depression.

We will focus on practical techniques to help young people reflect, examine their challenges, apply the Cognitive Behavioural Map and regulate their emotions.

This workshop and the book offer a simple, practical approach which can be used by qualified therapists and counsellors as a foundation for delivery of B-CBT for C&YP

Topics

1. Welcome, Introduction and Overview
2. Practical Aspects of Working with Young People (Patrick McGhee)
3. Working with Young People and Anger (Alison Triste)
4. Working with Young People and Anxiety (Alison Triste)
5. Working with Young People and Depression (Alison Triste)
6. Case Study and Breakout Groups (Patrick McGhee)
7. Q&A Summary and Next Steps (Patrick McGhee)

Workshop Objectives

• Provide an overview of contemporary ideas and practice in CBT for C&YP
• Help delegates explore the practical exercises in Brief CBT for Young People
• Apply key ideas to specific psychological conditions in young people
• Review application to own practice

About the Presenters

Alison Triste

BSc (Hons) Psychology, PgDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, BABCP Accredited, Gm BPS

Alison is a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with 10 years of experience. She provides evidence-based CBT treatments for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, phobias, and other mental health problems. With accreditations from the BPS and BABCP, she offers a collaborative and safe environment to help clients build resilience and manage their emotions. She describes her passion as "enabling children and adults to maximize their potential by working collaboratively to meet their treatment goals by using a combination of symptom reduction protocols in addition to Positive Psychology."

In addition to providing private therapy services, she supervises CBT Therapists working with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings including the NHS; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS); schools; and private practices.

Professor Patrick McGhee

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.