Treating Procrastination

Everyone puts off unpleasant or unattractive tasks from time to time. For some people, however, it can become a core feature of their psychological world, impacting on their work, relationships and mental health. This webinar looks at the key psychological and behavioural features of procrastination and offers practical, evidence-based techniques to help clients - and ourselves as therapists - deal with damaging delay and deferral. Drawing on recent research, in the webinar the focus is on addressing the underlying cognitive dynamics that hinder execution of action, rather than a superficial focus on 'tricks' to get things done. Procrastination is in itself a problem but often also a signal of a broader psychological pattern.

Key ideas

1. What is procrastination?
2. Domains of procrastination
3. Procrastination across the lifespan
4. Breaking the procrastination cycle.
5. Behavioural interventions
6. Cognitive restructuring: Tackling Core Beliefs and unhelpful Assumptions and Rules
7. Working with clients to develop an action plan.
8. Resources, Reading and Research

What have previous delegates said about similar workshops?

• "Excellent overview. Great Case Studies"
• "Very Informative"Learned a lot of new techniques - thank you!
• Excellent, I’ve learnt a great deal today .... thank you!
• This was very clear and practical l. The techniques simple to understand. Excellent session
• Interesting Patrick - helps me to get my thoughts in order. Enjoy some of the links and will find overall very useful"
• "Informative and educational""Thought provoking""grounded in research""good resources provided"
• "Very interesting Good knowledge and excellent research"

Who is the trainer for this event?

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.