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Packages Tailored to Your Needs

Beck Institute’s leadership has collaborated with ACPA to develop custom training packages offering professional development opportunities tailored to its members. No matter where you are in your career and what your goals are for training, we have an expert-led state-of-the-art continuing education opportunity to meet your needs.

Browse our offerings below and view our full training catalog for even more training topics and formats.

And check back to learn more about an exclusive webinar for ACPA members presented by Beck Institute President Dr. Judith Beck!

Take Advantage of Our Early Bird Discount

For the month of January, ACPA members can take advantage of 35% off all Beck Institute on-demand courses, webinars and live virtual workshops. Beginning February 1, ACPA members will receive 10% off all BI trainings.

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Students and Early Career Professionals

These trainings are designed to help early career clinicians master the theory and foundations of modern CBT including conceptualizing clients according to the cognitive model, establishing the therapeutic relationship, and utilizing key interventions.

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Basics of CBT: Essentials I

Designed for health and mental health professionals of all skill levels, this course teaches participants the history of CBT, the theory behind CBT, and a step-by-step description of how to apply the most important techniques to clients.

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CBT in Practice: Essentials II

This interactive multimedia course digs into the “how” of practicing CBT: how to establish the therapeutic alliance, generate internal motivation, structure therapy sessions, and develop effective action plans for each client.

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CBT for Depression

This interactive, on-demand, multimedia course teaches evidence-based cognitive and behavioral strategies to effectively treat clients diagnosed with depression. Participants will learn to conceptualize clients, structure treatment, elicit and evaluate clients’ automatic thoughts, build and maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, and collaboratively develop Action Plans.

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CBT for Anxiety

Gain essential CBT skills to help clients diagnosed with a range of anxiety disorders in this comprehensive multimedia course. Learn evidence-based strategies that can help clients decrease anxious symptoms, increase functional behavior, and engage more fully with their lives.

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CBT for Personality Disorders

Through case examples and demonstration role plays, this course teaches participants how to use evidence-based CBT strategies to help clients diagnosed with personality disorders. Learn to help clients solve interpersonal problems, decrease their use of unhelpful coping behaviors, and evaluate and modify their longstanding negative core beliefs so they can change their thinking at both an intellectual and emotional level.

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The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT

This on-demand webinar, led by Dr. Judith Beck, teaches participants how to conceptualize client beliefs and behaviors that interfere with the therapeutic relationship, and how to select interventions that strengthen the client’s relationships both in and outside of therapy.

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Socratic Questioning in CBT

Learn about Socratic questioning, a foundational component of CBT, from Beck Institute faculty member Dr. Rob Hindman. This comprehensive, self-paced, on-demand technique training will cover all aspects of Socratic questioning through case examples, role played therapy sessions, and discussions with Beck Institute expert clinicians.

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CBT for Suicide Prevention

This interactive on-demand course presents an evidence-based CBT approach to suicide prevention. Participants will learn to conduct a thorough suicide risk assessment, strengthen the therapeutic relationship, conceptualize suicidal ideation and plan treatment, develop a safety plan, and much more.

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Graduate Student and Early Career Professional Workshop

This workshop will teach you to conceptualize clients with depression, plan treatment based on an individualized conceptualization, establish the therapeutic relationship, instill hope, and more. The third day of training will focus on identifying and assessing clients with suicidal ideation and implementing specific strategies for preventing and managing suicidal crises.

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Mid-Career Professionals

These trainings tailored to mid-career professionals will teach you how to apply CBT for specific populations and problems and integrate techniques from other modalities into CBT.

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CBT for Adult ADHD Webinar

This webinar offers an implementation-focused approach to delivering CBT for adults with ADHD. This webinar will outline and illustrate the CBT approach for adult ADHD with a focus on addressing procrastination, managing social and interpersonal roles, and time management. Many of the tips provided in this webinar are applicable to clients without ADHD who struggle with related problems such as procrastination.

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CBT for Bipolar Disorder Webinar

This webinar summarizes the principles and components of CBT for bipolar disorder. Learn an approach that emphasizes individual case conceptualization, respects the clients’ goal of improving quality of life, and considers the stage of their illness. The webinar also addresses family interventions, sleep hygiene methods, mindfulness practices to lower anxiety, imagery work, and DBT skills approaches.

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CBT for Rumination Webinar

This webinar provides you with an overview of rumination-focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (RF-CBT). You will learn to adapt CBT to address rumination as a treatment target, shift unhelpful ruminative response styles to more helpful ways of thinking, design behavioral experiments, engage clients in value-driven behavior, and prevent relapse.

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CBT for Perinatal Anxiety

This three-hour on-demand webinar will provide you with an understanding of perinatal anxiety and will equip you with evidence-based strategies to improve maternal mental health. This training focuses on the fundamentals of CBT as well as specific adaptations to treat perinatal anxiety and OCD to reduce distress and improve functioning.

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CBT for Hoarding Disorder Webinar

This three-hour on-demand webinar discusses the key features of hoarding disorder as well as its prevalence throughout the lifespan and across countries and cultures. Through didactic instruction and roleplays, participants will learn to create individualized conceptualization-based treatment plans that include cognitive and behavioral interventions used in…

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CBT for Emerging Adults Webinar

This on-demand webinar provides an overview of how to work with emerging adults who are feeling stuck due to anxiety and related concerns. Learn to conduct functional assessments to understand ways in which anxiety has delayed appropriate development, conceptualize concerns through a developmental cognitive behavioral lens…

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CBT for Older Adults Webinar

This on-demand webinar teaches you a framework for conceptualizing older adults in the context of their life history. Learn how techniques such as reminiscence and life review can be integrated into more standard CBT protocols, as well as ways to customize treatment to enrich the quality of care for older adults.

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Integrating Mindfulness into CBT

Learn how to integrate and adapt mindfulness into cognitive behavior therapy in this interactive self-paced on-demand course. Through case examples, role-played therapy sessions, and experiential mindfulness exercises, you’ll learn to integrate mindfulness into CBT for thoughts, thought processes, and emotions, as well as to reduce self-criticism and enhance self-compassion.

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Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Serious Mental Health Conditions

Learn Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) from the team that developed this revolutionary practice along with Dr. Aaron Beck. This interactive online course, appropriate for staff of all disciplines across all levels of education and experience, teaches skills to work with individuals …

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CBT for Trauma

This three-day experiential workshop will teach you both basic and advanced cognitive and behavioral strategies for the treatment of PTSD. You will learn how to develop individualized plans to help clients process traumatic events, engage in exposure techniques, and address co-morbid conditions.

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CBT for Chronic Pain and Medical Conditions

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn to apply CBT to clients with chronic pain and medical conditions, focusing on individualized treatment plans and enhancing motivation. This workshop will emphasize the therapeutic relationship to motivate clients who struggle to find hope, feel alienated by the health system, or are hesitant to make lifestyle changes and provide techniques to address …

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CBT for Addictive Disorders

This workshop presents the foundations and applications of evidence-based CBT treatment for diverse addictive disorders and problematic habits, including drug and alcohol misuse, problem gambling, Internet gaming, and binge eating.

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Integrating Third Wave Therapies into CBT: ACT and DBT

Do you work with clients who may benefit from interventions used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)? This two-day workshop will teach you how to use a cognitive conceptualization to select interventions from ACT and DBT and integrate them into CBT treatment for clients experiencing a range of challenges.

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Senior Clinicians

Learn cutting-edge topics in CBT, apply CBT to complex cases, and sharpen your supervisory skills with this special collection of trainings for advanced clinicians.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What are live workshops?

    Live workshops are 1-, 2-, or 3-day live virtual trainings with interactive learning activities, such as breakout groups and trainee discussions.

  • What are on-demand courses?

    On-demand courses are self-paced trainings held on our custom learning platform that incorporate interactive activities, roleplays, and clinical roundtables into lecture-based lessons.

  • What are on-demand webinars?

    On-demand webinars are in-depth prerecorded trainings featuring lecture-based instruction, ranging in length from 60 minutes to one day.

  • What are technique trainings?

    Technique trainings are short (1.5 – 2.5 hour) self-paced on-demand trainings that provide a deep dive into one crucial aspect of CBT or CT-R treatment.

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