Depression: CBT's pathway out (2024.06.19; via Zoom)
Depression: CBT's pathway out is organized by Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Canada and will be held on Jun 19, 2024.
Overview:
Aaron Beck (1921–2021) published his first book on depression in 1967, the year the Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup—and when many of today’s physicians were just hopeful helices of DNA.
Just like you, CBT has evolved immeasurably over the past 56 years. We present “CBT for Depression, Version 2023”, an approach that is very different—and much more effective—than Beck's 1967 package. In the shell of a nut, CBT for MDD has become more behavioral and less cognitive—and the research to support the pendulum swinging is large and incontrovertible.
Topics include reasons for optimism; empathy addiction; goalification, scaling, and I/O charts; behavioral antidepressants; pathogenic belief identification; cognitive illusions; the physics of CBT; therapeutic persuasion; thought records; the CUE question (to harness emotional intelligence); learned helplessness (and its opposite, learned hopefulness); reductionistic stagnation; future-focusing (intertemporal self-state negotiations); and the lay construct of willpower.
The Depression module provides physicians with a comprehensive kit for more effectively managing one of the most common human afflictions.
See also Dysthymia: Hope for Chronic Depression & Suicidality.
Head instructor Greg Dubord, MD is the CME Director of CBT Canada, and the prime developer of medical CBT. He has presented over 500 workshops, including over 50 for the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and is a University of Toronto CME Teacher of the Year.
