Description
Using the five areas assessment CBT model to help patients improve
Speakers Professor Chris Williams
Overview
Patients with long term and medically unexplained physical symptoms present in a range of settings. Many clinical presentations are poorly explained by existing anxiety-based treatment models.
This workshop will give you specific assessment and management skills based on the five areas assessment CBT model. You will cover a range of interventions to help the patient use experiments and structured problem solving plans to improve how they feel.
Attending this course will enable you to:
Describe the range of illness responses and understand these using a cognitive behavioural framework
Help make sense of the patient’s current presentation – including how to assess complex presentations such as chronic fatigue and pain
Identify factors that are worsening how the person feels and choose realistic targets for change
Use concepts such as pie charts to help patients reattribute the causes of their symptoms
Describe in detail a plan to increase activity levels in order to overcome avoidance and reduced activity
Accommodation
Please note that you will need to make your own accommodation arrangements for this event. There are many hotels to suit a range of budgets a short walk or bus journey from the College. Here are the best ways to find them:
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