Socratic Dialogue: How to use this Skill to change Core Beliefs and Schemas

The bulk of therapist training is devoted to the initiation of therapy and reduction of acute symptoms, while less attention is paid to the later phases of treatment. Although modification of core beliefs or schemas is not inherently different from working with other cognitions, it can be a longer process. Effectively targeting core beliefs and schemas can be conceptualized as a multi-intervention process that involves cognitive, behavioral, experiential, and emotion-focused strategies to bring about change. Participants will be taught interventions to bring about lasting change in core belief...Read mores and schemas. A number of specific strategies will be taught and demonstrated. Less...

Learning Objectives

Discuss how to create a working conceptualization of the key underlying beliefs to target.
Explain how schematic filters and behavior patterns reinforce a core belief.
Describe how to organize interventions across the course of treatment to bring about schematic change.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

09:00 AM EST - 01:00 PM EST

EARN 3.5 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Scott Waltman, PsyD, ABPP

Scott Waltman, PsyD, ABPP, is a clinician, trainer, and practice-based researcher who specializes in providing Case Conceptualization-Driven CBT. This means creating a personalized treatment plan that is an integration of research-supported treatment protocols and the individual characteristics and preferences of the client. Clinically, Dr. Waltman strives to flexibly and compassionately apply cognitive and behavioral interventions to help people overcome the barriers in their lives, to facilitate building meaningful lives that are guided by passion and values. He is certified as a qualified Cognitive Therapist and Trainer/Consultant by the Academy of Cognitive & Behavior Therapies. He is also a full Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive & Behavior Therapies. He also is board certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He also completed an APA-Accredited Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. There he treated patients in the community mental health center’s CBT clinic and was also the lead trainer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health CBT Dissemination Project. More recently, Dr. Waltman, worked at the Aaron T Beck Psychopathology Research Center as a CBT trainer for one of Dr. Aaron Beck’s CBT implementation teams in the Philadelphia public mental health system. Dr. Waltman has extensive history working with individuals with psychiatric and personality disorder in inpatient, outpatient, and residential settings (both adults and adolescents). Dr. Waltman has published practice-based research in several reputable journals and has presented his findings at national and international conferences. He is the lead author of the therapist treatment manual “Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors: Learn How to Think and Intervene like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist.

Agenda

9:00-9:10 Introduction and overview of topic

9:10-9:20 Brief case example

9:20-10:05 Applied presentation of Socratic questioning framework

10:05-10:20 Break

10:20-11:20 Role play/demonstration with debrief

11:20-11:45 Applied case example of in-session Socratic strategies for core belief change

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-12:25 Applied case example of between-session Socratic strategies for core belief change

12:25-12:50 Role play/demonstration with debrief

12:50-1:00 Q&A

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