Treating Mythomania with CBT

Treating Mythomania with CBT

Event Description

Mythomania is a form compulsive lying disorder that can be difficult to treat. It is a complex psychological condition characterised by habitual lying, often to the point of creating intricate, fantastical narratives. However, some people engage in regular untruths as a way of navigating challenging environments, relationships and experiences. This everday evasion and lying can be very damaging for the individual and and those around them.

This workshop will provide an introduction to mythomania and its variants - and explore how CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) can be used to effectively treat it.

Key Topics to be Covered

• What is mythomania?
• Causes of mythomania
• Signs and symptoms of mythomania
• Milder forms of lying and misrepresentation in relationships and everyday life.
• How CBT can help treat mythomania
• How can we help partners of mythomania?

Workshop Objectives

• By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Define mythomania and understand its symptoms
• Identify the presence of mythomania
• Explain to clients how CBT can be used to treat mythomania
• Work in a practical way with clients to support understand and change.

Benefits for Delegates

• This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to understand and treat mythomania.
• You will learn about the causes of mythomania and how CBT can be used to effectively treat it.
• You will develop coping mechanisms for dealing with mythomania.

In this introductory workshop we will look at the practical frameworks and techniques that are used in the treatment of mythomania.

Resources

A full set of slides with extensive clickable links to free online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources.

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hours skills CPD is available to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

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 and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

Joining instructions

Joining instructions for the webinar will be sent to participants on registration and again approximately 24 hours and 20 minutes before the start of the event. Please aim to join about 10 minutes before the start of the event to check connections.