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CBT Canada

McGill University Faculty of Medicine is again sponsoring two medical CBT workshops at the Annual Refresher Course for Family Physicians. This year's workshops are PTSD: From Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth, and a SpicyPsychUpdate. Both workshops assume that appointments are ten minutes or less in duration. As such, the focus is exclusively on those tools that are highly practical and efficient.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, PTSD, trauma, resilience, post-traumatic growth, treatment tools, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), “emotional baggage” (i.e., old traumata), "hindsight bias", "imaginal rescripting", ACE (adverse childhood experience) survivors, complex PTSD (C-PTSD), intergenerational trauma, trauma-informed care, medical marijuana

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

McGill University Faculty of Medicine is again sponsoring two medical CBT workshops at the Annual Refresher Course for Family Physicians. This year's workshops are PTSD: From Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth, and a SpicyPsychUpdate.

Both workshops assume that appointments are ten minutes or less in duration. As such, the focus is exclusively on those tools that are highly practical and efficient.

Although ideally taken together for 18.0 Mainpro+ credits, the workshops can also be taken individually for 9.0 Mainpro+ credits each.

The SpicyPsychUpdate will be the Jalapeno Collection. SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics.

Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the thirty scientific papers that form the basis of each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every five minutes.

Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools, tips, and techniques; compliance; suicidality; suicide risk management; meditation; narcissism; burn-out; self-help; PTSD; couples counseling; depression; vaccine compliance; forgiveness; creativity; device addiction; and more; family medicine; general practice; primary care

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Medical CBT is specifically designed for the ultra-brief appointments typical of primary care. In this workshop you'll learn the essentials of a skill that may fundamentally change how you cope with the all-important psychological side of medical practice. Topics include goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; empathy addiction; the physics of CBT; cognogen identification; ~10 tools of persuasion; and the management of non-compliance.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, tools of persuasion, coping strategies, tips and techniques, well-being, major depression, persistent depression (dysthymia), chronic worry, chronic pain, panic disorder, non-compliance, substance abuse, illness anxiety, borderline personality disorder, suicidality

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT is by far the most evidence-based non-pharmacologic approach to anxiety, and important components can be effortlessly integrated into normal primary care appointments. This highly-practical, three-credits-per-hour CME works through family practice case studies of excessive worry, generalized anxiety disorder and common contemporary fears. The focus is on cognitive & behavioral techniques that take ten minutes or less. Participants are encouraged to discuss real-life cases. Our ~25 discussion topics will include psychodynamic "fixing", the risk-resources ratio, the looming vulnerability model, the intolerance of uncertainty, the inflated sense of responsibility, procrastination, assertiveness training, and "clutter studies". Note: Many of the non-pharmacological tools taught in this CBT Canada workshop are very important to the resilience of physicians, and can be passed along to children and other family members—all while fully respecting their boundaries.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, anxiety, excessive worry, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), common fears, evidence-based approaches, non-pharmacological, psychodynamic "fixing", risk-resources ratio, looming vulnerability, intolerance of uncertainty, inflated sense of responsibility, procrastination, assertiveness training, "clutter studies", resilience, coping strategies, tips and techniques, cognitive approaches, behavioral approaches, primary care, psychology

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the scientific papers for each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every five minutes. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, psychology, psychiatry, tools, tips, and techniques, primary care, fear of cancer recurrence, childhood anxiety, major depression (MDD), “reproductive priming effect”, “mate poaching”, self-harm, GAD, “memory counter-conditioning” for substance abuse, social anxiety, couples counseling, and more

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

There are many tools (besides exhausting empathy injections) you can use to keep the doctor-patient relationship far from the Zone of Peril. In the 3.0 hour, 9.0 Mainpro+ credit Bedside Manners 2.0, we review twenty-six (26) such tools. Topics covered include the art, science and legalities of apologies; collaboration signifiers; emotional investment expressions; existential connectors (e.g., meaning, isolation, death); expectation management; the universal need for "fairness"; fiduciary role reminders; goal (re)negotiations; humour (honk, honk); jolting studies on physician punctuality; Gable's "response style" matrix; "transference 2.0"; validation (as in borderline personality disorder) ... and sixteen additional rapport-building tools. Doctors who keep their "alliance-o-meter" readings high—without reflexively resorting to draining empathy dosing—enjoy better clinical outcomes—and fewer fears of complaints—and better personal (and familial) well-being.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; primary care; physician well-being; improved clinical outcomes; behavior change; empathy addiction; doctor-patient relationship; alliance; compliance; adherence; the art, science and legalities of apologies; collaboration signifiers; emotional investment expressions; existential connectors (e.g., meaning, isolation, death); expectation management; the universal need for "fairness"; fiduciary role reminders; goal (re)negotiations; humour (honk, honk); jolting studies on physician punctuality; Gable's "response style" matrix; "transference 2.0"; validation (as in borderline personality disorder) ... and sixteen additional rapport-building tools

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the scientific papers for each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every five minutes. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools, tips, and techniques; primary care; compliance; couples counseling; CBT for perimenopausal symptoms; mood contagion; mental stress-induced ischemia; evidence based therapy; CBT for psychosis; and more

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

This practical workshop begins with a review of the science of personality assessment. We examine the most popular inventories, doing a fair bit of debunking along the way. The core of the workshop is the systematic review of DSM-5’s ten personality disorders: the insensitively-named "MAD" (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal), "BAD" (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic), and "SAD" (avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive) "clusters". As we review each of the ten personality disorders, our emphases are on 1) rapid diagnosis (when possible); 2) modular treatments (when desired), and 3) clinician coping (always). Personalities and their disorders are by definition enduring and predictable. When you improve your skills in reading others, you give yourself a little "superpower". That superpower will make both your clinical practice and your life in general a fair bit easier.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; personality disorders; personality assessment; DSM-5’s ten personality disorders; paranoid; schizoid; schizotypal; antisocial; borderline; histrionic; narcissistic; avoidant; dependent; obsessive-compulsive; diagnosis; modular treatments; primary care; psychology; mental health; well-being; clinician coping; physician well-being

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Loneliness is "the new smoking". When chronic, it erodes both emotional and physical health. Our society's loneliness epidemic leads many patients to (mis)use your office as their primary source of social support. Your burden can be very heavy. Today's cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) provides patients with much more than the typical advice of “join a club”. Upon completing the The Relationship Tune-Up, you’ll have dozens of practical tools to help you improve their relations with friends, colleagues, and loved ones. Major topics include "ten-minute couples counseling"; helping patients (and others) overcome social anxiety; and the fascinating issue of adult sibling relations. Special topics include the scientific determinants of friendship; the trap of co-rumination; research on "emotional contagion"; "friendshifts"; the complex (and embarrassing) emotion of hurt; the portfolio analysis tool; relations with individuals with antisocial personality disorder (AsPD); the horror of ostracism; and the compelling research on the timing of residential moves on children.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; social CBT; mental health; "ten-minute couples counseling"; social anxiety; adult sibling relations; scientific determinants of friendship; co-rumination; "emotional contagion"; "friendshifts"; the complex (and embarrassing) emotion of hurt; portfolio analysis; antisocial personality disorder (AsPD); the horror of ostracism; the timing of residential moves on children; primary care; psychology; tools, tips, and techniques from CBT

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

Harvard Medical School

Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine, which is among the highest-rated Harvard medical School CME courses, provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine and guidance to incorporate these changes into practice for state-of-the-art care. Education is practical and results-focused, structured to help you optimize your approach to the wide array of conditions seen in primary care practice. Our lectures and workshops are designed to provide practical, case-based reviews of physical exam skills, diagnostic techniques, and the latest in disease management. All sessions are taught by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields of medicine, and include time for audience Q&A. This year, we are asking specialist speakers to focus on the key takeaways they recommend for busy PCPs.

Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education;     Email: CEPrograms@hms.harvard.edu

Treating obesity, chronic kidney disease, health equity, chronic pain management: opioids and non-opioids, updated approaches to hypertension and lipid care, treating diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, respiratory infections including COVID-19, menopause management and treatment of osteoporosis, treating headaches, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, stroke, assessing and treating alcohol and opiate addictions, sleep disorders, pre-op cardiac and pulmonary consultation, "can't-miss" diagnoses, immunizations, cancer screening, Lyme disease, COPD, cardiology, liver disease, time management for PCPs

CBT Canada

As Aristotle wrote, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." Although the pursuit of happiness has long been considered an art, today it is also guided by a substantial science. In this three-hour workshop, we'll review the most significant findings from the field of positive psychology. Topics include awe, career decisions, experiences, fun, gratitude, humour, income, mind-expanding drugs, optimism, pets, play, resilience, savouring, self actualization, and shinrin-yoku.

Happiness Science is our most upbeat and broadly-applicable module. Please join us for this extremely positive CME!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; mental health; psychology; happiness; positive psychology; World Happiness reports; awe; career decisions; experiences; fun; gratitude; humour; income; mind-expanding drugs; optimism; pets; play; resilience; savouring; self actualization; shinrin-yoku; primary care; wellness; well-being

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the scientific papers for each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every five minutes. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools tips, and techniques; primary care; suicide risk management; meditation; PTSD; MDD; vaccine compliance; couples counseling; forgiveness; creativity; device addiction; and more

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Physicians trained in CBT derive significant professional satisfaction from treating panic disorder and the phobias. Most patients respond relatively quickly, and relapse rates are reassuringly low. We'll review CBT for panic, and explore how the cognitive model can be applied to such "Recursive disorders" as cognitive decline-related anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine headaches, perimenopausal symptoms, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. In our review of phobias, we'll examine the subtleties of systematic desensitization. Other anxiety disorder sufferers can at least be comforted by family physicians without specialized training. We cover CBT's most practical pointers for the following set of conditions: OCD-related avoidance, PTSD-related avoidance, public speaking anxiety, selective mutism, separation anxiety, social anxiety, and test anxiety.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; panic disorder; phobias; anxiety; mental health; wellbeing; wellness; CBT for panic; panic-related disorders; cognitive model; "Recursive disorders"; "symptom spiral syndromes"; cognitive decline-related anxiety; dementia worry; irritable bowel syndrome; migraine headaches; perimenopausal symptoms; premenstrual dysphoric disorder; systematic desensitization; OCD-related avoidance; PTSD-related avoidance; public speaking anxiety; selective mutism; separation anxiety; social anxiety; test anxiety; primary care; family practice; family medicine; psychology

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

We'll begin with a review of debriefing (i.e., interventions designed to prevent PTSD after a trauma), including insights from head instructor, Greg Dubord, MD, and his work with the Canadian government's National Roundtable in Ottawa. We'll then review a shortcut to the diagnosis of PTSD, proceeding from there to the details of (and controversies pertaining to) the fuller diagnostic criteria. The core of the workshop is treatment interventions for the four major criteria. Special topics include the curious case of EMDR, “emotional baggage” (i.e., old traumata), the eye-opening forgiveness research, so-called "hindsight bias", the Oprah-esque "imaginal rescripting", the Faustian bargain of children who survived ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), and what data we have on medical marijuana. We end with the uplifting literature on post-traumatic growth.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; PTSD; trauma; diagnostic criteria; treatment interventions; EMDR; “emotional baggage” (i.e., old traumata); forgiveness; "hindsight bias"; "imaginal rescripting", ACEs (adverse childhood experiences); medical marijuana; post-traumatic growth; primary care; family practice; general medicine; psychology; mental health; wellbeing; wellness

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

The workshop assumes your appointments are brief, averaging only 5–7 minutes. With that in mind, we teach the CBT tools that are highest in impact and practicality. The goal is to efficiently help patients cope—at least a little better—with the pain of some of life’s inevitable losses.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; grief; bereavement; loss; Prolonged Grief Disorder; Post-traumatic growth; thanatophobia; the sunk-cost effect; forgiveness; MDD vs grief; CBT Tools and strategies; coping tools; family practice; general medicine; primary care; psychology; mental health; wellness; wellbeing

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Please join your colleagues to acquire the tools of “CBT for Depression, Version 2025”, an approach that is very different—and very much more effective—than Beck's original package. As always, we assume your appointments are brief, averaging only ten minutes. With that in mind, we teach the tools that are highest in impact and practicality. Topics in the module include: identifying and managing empathy addictions; antidepressant alexithymia; depressogenic belief identification; therapeutic persuasion and the "physics" of CBT; goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; strategic behavioral antidepressant prescriptions; cultivating learned hopefulness / rational reasons for optimism; combating rumination spirals; breaking through reductionistic stagnation; enhancing motivation with the CUE question; letting go of the past—and unrelentingly focusing on the future; willpower enhancement. The “CBT for Depression, Version 2025” module provides physicians with a clean, contemporary, and comprehensive kit for more effectively managing one of the most common human afflictions. 

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; depression; major depressive disorder; MDD; “CBT for Depression,  Version 2025”; empathy addictions; antidepressant alexithymia; depressogenic belief identification; therapeutic persuasion; the "physics" of CBT; goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; strategic behavioral antidepressant prescriptions; learned hopefulness; optimism; rumination spirals; reductionistic stagnation; motivation; future-focusing; the CUE question; letting go; willpower enhancement; primary care; family practice; general practice; psychology; mental health; wellbeing; wellness

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Dysthymia: CBT's pathway out of chronic depression & suicidality covers three related topics: brief CBT for dysthymia (assumes ten-minute appointments), brief CBT for suicidality (focusing on what to say in the moment), and victimhood culture (an exacerbant on the rise).

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; dysthymia; persistent depressive disorder; PDD; chronic depression; suicidality; suicide risk factors; suicide screening; suicide-prevention interventions; what to say (and how to say it) in the here & now with the suicidal patient to reduce their motivation to act; victimhood culture; mental health; family medicine; primary care; general practice; psychology

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

In this three-hour workshop, we'll review techniques for silencing self-criticism, decreasing rumination, letting go of the past, increasing self-compassion, improving decision-making, optimizing time management, boosting mindfulness, and making a marriage spark joy.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; mental health; physician wellbeing; wellness; resilience; burnout; Premature Clinician Aging Disorder (PCAD); self-criticism; rumination; letting go; self-compassion; decision-making; time management; mindfulness; relationships; couples counseling; self-care; psychology; primary care; family medicine; general practice

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

This sleeves-up workshop emphasizes practical assessment tools, homework compliance enhancers, and change-oriented charting. The focus is on the most strategic interventions that can be integrated into routine (e.g., 10 minute) clinical appointments.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; mental health; CBT Tools; practical assessment tools; homework compliance enhancers; change-oriented charting; strategic interventions; routine (e.g., 10 minute) clinical appointments; primary care; family medicine; general practice; doctor-patient relationship; alliance; compliance; adherence; tools of persuasion; behavior change; maladaptive belief change; patient motivation; empathy addiction; goalification

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the 30 scientific papers that form the basis of each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every 5 minutes. We're currently offering 3 entirely unique SpicyPsychUpdates, each covering 30 entirely unique recent papers. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools, tips, and techniques; fear of cancer recurrence; childhood anxiety; major depression (MDD); “reproductive priming effect”; “mate poaching”; self-harm; GAD; “memory counter-conditioning” for substance abuse; social anxiety; couples counseling; and more; wellness; mental health; primary care; general practice; family medicine;

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Medical CBT is specifically designed for the ultra-brief appointments typical of primary care. In this workshop you'll learn the essentials of a skill that may fundamentally change how you cope with the all-important psychological side of medical practice. You'll learn flexible tools to integrate with your existing approaches to major depression, persistent depression (“dysthymia” until DSM-5), chronic worry, chronic pain, panic disorder, non-compliance, substance abuse, illness anxiety, borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and more.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; tools of persuasion; coping strategies; tips and techniques; well-being; major depression; persistent depression (dysthymia); chronic worry; chronic pain; panic disorder; non-compliance; substance abuse; illness anxiety; borderline personality disorder; suicidality; empathy addiction; doctor patient relationship; alliance; compliance; adherence; behavior change; cognition change; maladaptive beliefs; cognogens; primary care; family medicine; general practice; psychology

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the 30 scientific papers that form the basis of each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every 5 minutes. We're currently offering 3 entirely unique SpicyPsychUpdates, each covering 30 entirely unique recent papers. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools, tips, and techniques; compliance; couples counseling; CBT for perimenopausal symptoms; mood contagion; mental stress-induced ischemia; evidence based therapy; CBT for psychosis; and more; family medicine; general practice; primary care

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Please join your colleagues to acquire the tools of “CBT for Depression, Version 2025”, an approach that is very different—and very much more effective—than Beck's original package. As always, we assume your appointments are brief, averaging only ten minutes. With that in mind, we teach the tools that are highest in impact and practicality. Topics in the module include: identifying and managing empathy addictions; antidepressant alexithymia; depressogenic belief identification; therapeutic persuasion and the "physics" of CBT; goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; strategic behavioral antidepressant prescriptions; cultivating learned hopefulness / rational reasons for optimism; combating rumination spirals; breaking through reductionistic stagnation; enhancing motivation with the CUE question; letting go of the past—and unrelentingly focusing on the future; willpower enhancement.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; mental health; depression; CBT for Depression; Major Depressive Disorder (MDD); empathy addiction; antidepressant alexithymia; depressogenic belief identification; therapeutic persuasion; the physics of CBT; goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; strategic behavioral antidepressant prescriptions; cultivating learned hopefulness / rational reasons for optimism; combating rumination spirals; breaking through reductionistic stagnation; enhancing motivation with the CUE question; letting go of the past—and unrelentingly focusing on the future; willpower enhancement; general practice; primary care; family medicine; psychology; wellbeing; wellness

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

CBT Canada's SpicyPsychUpdates reveal the zestiest bits from the fascinating & ever-evolving fields of psychology & psychiatry. SpicyPsychUpdates are a broader & brisker experience than CBT Canada's core modules, which focus on single topics. Five scoring criteria are used in selecting the 30 scientific papers that form the basis of each SpicyPsychUpdate: 1) recent; 2) high quality; 3) clinically useful; 4) personally useful; and 5) spicy (i.e., interesting). To boost the pep, we cut into a fresh paper about every 5 minutes. We're currently offering 3 entirely unique SpicyPsychUpdates, each covering 30 entirely unique recent papers. Highly-practical tips emerge from the literature at a blistering pace. Some of those tips can be life-changing for your patients & colleagues, family & friends—and the ongoing project called "you". Stay current with SpicyPsychUpdates!

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; psychology; psychiatry; tools, tips, and techniques; compliance; suicidality; suicide risk management; meditation; narcissism; burn-out; self-help; PTSD; couples counseling; depression; vaccine compliance; forgiveness; creativity; device addiction; and more; family medicine; general practice; primary care

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

The Dysthymia module covers three related topics: brief CBT for dysthymia (assumes ten-minute appointments), brief CBT for suicidality (focusing on what to say in the moment), and victimhood culture (an exacerbant on the rise).

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT, cognitive behavior therapy; dysthymia; persistent depressive disorder (PDD); chronic depression; suicidality; suicide risk factors; suicide screening; suicide-prevention interventions; what to say (and how to say it) to reduce patients' motivation to act; victimhood culture; primary care; family medicine; general practice; psychology; mental health; wellbeing

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology

CBT Canada

Losses happen. Historically, it was the wisdom traditions—religion and philosophy—that provided us with comfort. Today psychology helps too: the utterly universal experience of loss has spawned much excellent scientific research.

Topics include differentiating between MDD and grief, the CBT model (and techniques), the sunk-cost effect, forgiveness, DSM-5-TR's new Prolonged Grief Disorder, and thanatophobia.

The workshop assumes your appointments are brief, averaging only 5–7 minutes. With that in mind, we teach the CBT tools that are highest in impact and practicality. The goal is to efficiently help patients cope—at least a little better—with the pain of some of life’s inevitable losses.

CBT Canada;     Phone: [877-466-8228];     Email: info@cbt.ca

CBT; cognitive behavior therapy; grief; bereavement; loss; Prolonged Grief Disorder; Post-traumatic growth; thanatophobia, the sunk-cost effect; forgiveness; MDD vs grief; CBT Tools and strategies; coping tools; psychology; family medicine; primary care; general practice

Continuing Medical Education (CME),    Psychology