Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Anger (ONLINE)

The materials covered are applicable to a range of professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counsellors, psychiatric nurses, graduate students, case managers, probation/parole officers and other professionals working with clients in private practice, outpatient mental health centres, hospitals, day reporting centres, halfway and transitional housing programs, prisons and probation/parole systems.

Across different treatment settings, practitioners routinely see clients who harm others. Such cases pose a range of challenges that are quite different from addressing the traditional mental health needs of those suffering from mainly internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression.

Join CBT Australia and award-winning author, Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D., for fast paced, interactive, virtual learning sessions that will provide you with the foundational knowledge and tools to better understand, manage and prevent harmful behaviours. These intensive workshops in the Challenging Cases Series, cover a range of challenging clinical topics such as domestic and intimate partner violence, managing dysregulated anger, and addressing antisocial and criminal conduct.

The most efficient way to develop new skills is through practice - learning by doing. Therefore, all these online workshops in this series are highly interactive, incorporating structured learning activities including case examples, audio/video-recorded work samples, small group exercises and “real”-plays. Class sizes are limited to allow for practice opportunities in a virtual learning environment. The goal is for you to be able to transfer and incorporate newly learnt knowledge and skills into your real-world interactions.

Across different treatment settings practitioners routinely see clients whose anger reactions contribute to significant loss and suffering. While anger is a frequent and universal human emotion, it has received surprisingly little attention as a clinical problem.

When addressing anger, practitioners commonly engage in unproductive conversations (e.g., clients venting about unfair actions of others) and struggle to identify clear treatment targets.

In this session, participants will practice assessing the key features of client anger reactions by applying a 6-stage Anger Episode Model Interview to understand how anger is experienced and expressed in the client’s real-life interactions.

The analysis of anger episodes forms the groundwork for effective case formulation and collaboratively identifying relevant treatment goals. A flexible menu of well-established cognitive and behavioural interventions for remediating anger difficulties will be reviewed.

(1) Demonstrate knowledge of definitional and diagnostic conceptualizations, common co-morbidity patterns, and other anger related facts

(2) Understand client anger reactions according to a 6-stage sequential anger episode model and practice conducting an anger episode interview to efficiently identify relevant treatment targets

(3) Conceptualize anger interventions for adolescents and adults across broad stages of the treatment process: preparation and engagement, managing common anger triggers, restructuring anger prompting thoughts, altering dysfunctional internal experiences, and changing destructive expressive patterns

Pre-Reading/Listening for: CBT for Anger is included in the cost of the course.

Kassinove, H., & Tafrate, R. C., (2019). The Practitioner's Guide to Anger Management: Customizable Interventions, Treatments, and Tools for Clients with Problem Anger. New Harbinger/Impact Publications.

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One day workshop

Course schedule: 9am – 2pm (times are AEST Melbourne VIC)

Registrations: Registrations submitted less than 10 days prior to commencement of a course are not secured until confirmed with the office by phone or email. Your place is NOT confirmed until payment has been received in full and receipted. If you do not receive a registration confirmation within 7 days of submitting your booking, please phone +61 (0)3 9705 2216.

Cancellation Policy: Notice of cancellation must be received in writing to CBT Australia (e: events@cbtaustralia.com.au)

• within 5 days of event - no credit or refund

• within 6-10 days of event - 50% credit, no refunds

• over 10 days before event - full credit or refund

• credits are valid within 12 months of initial registration

• onus on participant to contact CBT Australia to rebook within 12 months

• registration transferable to another person upon application

• withdraw from course after commencement - no certificate, credit, or refund

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