Treating Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders

What are Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders?

These disorders that are reflect a wide range of behaviours and emotions but are linked by difficulties in controlling aggressive behaviors, self-control, and impulses. The main subtypes classified under this heading are:

• Oppositional defiant disorder
• Intermittent explosive disorder
• Conduct disorder
• Pyromania
• Kleptomania

Usually such tendencies are seem as a danger primarily to others’ safety and to social boundaries. Examples would include fighting, destroying property, enduring defiance, stealing, pathological lying, and extreme rule breaking.

While these tendencies are identified in DSM-5 as 'disorders' there is considerable debate as to whether or note these patterns of behaviours should be construed in this way. In any event, clients engaging in such behaviours typically want to stop and can be helped in so doing by tried and tested interventions and structured techniques. This workshop will provide a general overview of this area with a focus on practical approaches which can help clients and their families.

Topics to be Covered (indicative)

1. Introduction
2. DSM Classification of Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders
3. Debates about 'Disorder'
4. The 5 Main Subtypes
5. Oppositional defiant disorder
6. Intermittent explosive disorder
7. Conduct disorder
8. Pyromania
9. Kleptomania
10. Treatment
11. Treatment Issues
12. Practical Treatment Techniques
13. Case Study
14. Summary

Objectives

By the end of the workshop delegates will be able to:

1. Recognise the different types of Conduct Disorder and their associated symptoms
2. Understand the key principles underlying the role of context in Conduct Disorders
3. Identify the causes and co-morbidity features of Conduct Disorders
4. Be able to develop the basic features of a treament plan for clients and their families
5. Specify and apply contemporary models from a cognitive perspective.
6. Be aware of contemporary research issues in this area
7. Be able to assess their own continuing professional development needs in this area

Anonymous Feedback from previous delegates of similar workshops:

• Really helpful, as a trainee extremely important to clearly identify and stay focused on presenting issue
• Very helpful session on case formulation. Helped reinforce the utility of formulation to enable a better therapy process.
• I am a cpunsellor/psychotherapist and have been using CBT as my main treatment orientations over the past 2 years. This workshop was very interesting and useful and added to my knowledge. Thank you Patrick I always enjoy your workshops
• A very clearly explained, interesting and immersing workshop. Thoroughly enjoyed!
• Very useful. Formulation had always been something i struggle with. So glad to start this at the beginning of my cbt journey.
• Informative and snappy and some great ideas thank you
• Very helpful workshop in helping to integrate Case formulation into practice. Easy to understand and very practical.
• I'm an assistant psychologist and I've always found it difficult to grasp the best way to carry out case formulation in collaboration with clients but this workshop was exactly what I needed to learn about how to work collaboratively.
• Very useful and informative. I look forward to attending further webinars on this topic.

• Perfect!!!
• Really helpful, helped me realise I need more training!
• A really useful and detailed journey through an area often taught poorly on major courses, and then not done well.
• Practical examples really helpful
• I really enjoyed the session . As a student it was extremely helpful to my learning and work with clients.
• Very useful and practical, lots of learning
• I have found this workshop helpful. I struggle with integrating theory to practice at times so I look forward to looking over the notes and slides. Thank you.
• Great presentation of applied CBT skills and courses are covering a wide range of topics.
• I am student CBT therapist and found this workshop on formulation helpful in breaking down and simplifying process. I have leaned new techniques and approaches and now feel more confident about formulation.

• Very thorough and useful exploration of case formulation. As a student it has all made much more sense.
• Much better than I anticipated. Talks through all parts in a way that makes it very easy to understand. Very grateful to have found these webinars!
• I am a trainee CBT therapist. I found this session incomparably illuminating in terms of its ability to draw together the various levels of conceptualisation, and how it is paramount to bringing the therapy to life for our clients.

• Very interesting,loved the interactive aspect of the workshop. As a new graduate, i have little experience in cbt and found it very insightful and i have learned a lot

• Really informative and helped me to re-connect with formulations

• A great workshop Prof Patrick McGhee explained everything very well. I will look forward to the next one!

• This was very interesting and enjoyable. Direct and informative . Thank you. Wish there was more time!!

• Very good presentation - does what it says on the tin. Informed, enthused and helped.

CPD

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued for professionals on request confirming 2 Hours CPD

Who is facilitating the event?

Professor Patrick McGhee, FRSA, 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.