Training for Organizations

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.

CBT in Practice: Essentials II

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

Essentials of CBT I and II: Foundations and Practice

The first part of this training introduces the history of CBT, the theory behind CBT, cognitive formulation, and individualized treatment planning. The second part of this training delves into the “how” of practicing CBT with a client: how to establish a therapeutic alliance, generate internal motivation, structure therapy sessions, implement evidence-based cognitive and behavioral techniques.

Brief CBT

This workshop teaches the fundamentals of CBT and their application in time-sensitive settings for patients with a variety of health and mental health concerns. Participants will learn how to establish a strong therapeutic relationship with patients in a brief setting and adapt key CBT components to shorter encounters.

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 select interventions that strengthen the client’s relationships both in and outside of therapy.

Group Consultation

Group consultation provides a supportive environment for clinicians to continue to build their CBT skills and receive feedback from their peers under the guidance of an experienced Beck Institute faculty member.

Substance Use

Beck Institute provides training for organizations that work with individuals struggling with addictive disorders, including opioid use.

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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 andrnalcohol misuse, problem gambling, internet gaming, and binge eating.

CBT for Chronic Pain

This workshop focuses on the application of CBT for clients living with chronic pain. Participants will learn to create individualized treatment plans and use a variety of CBT techniques to mitigate suffering, improve levels of functioning, and increase clients’ overall quality of life.

CBT for Substance Use Disorders in Youth

This workshop presents a developmentally appropriate cognitive behavioral approach to helping youth with substance use disorders build resilience while enhancing their motivation to change. Participants will learn to help youth clients identify and evaluate substance use-related beliefs, manage cravings more effectively, improve their mood, and utilize a range of adaptive skills.

Group Consultation

CBT for Opioid Use

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Suicide Prevention

Beck Institute offers comprehensive training for clinicians and other professionals who work with both adult and youth clients with suicidal ideation and related conditions, including depression and self-injury.

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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.

CBT for Suicide Prevention in Youth

This workshop will teach participants to conceptualize and create individual treatment plans for young clients with suicide-related ideation and behaviors. Participants will learn specific interventions, including assisting clients with the suicide narrative, building skills such as modifying unhelpful thoughts, problem solving, instilling hope, planning forrnsafety, and preventing relapse.

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.

CBT for Depression in Youth

This workshop will teach how to establish strong therapeutic relationships and create individualized treatment plans for youth clients with depression. Participants will learn and have an opportunity to practice a broad range of valuable treatment strategies backed by decades of empirical research and experience.

CT-R Approach to Trauma, Aggression, and Self-Injury

This on-demand webinar focuses on beliefs that increase vulnerability to acts of aggression and self-injury as well as strategies to tap into individuals’ beliefs related to control, connection, contribution, and hope.

Group Supervision

Our Group Supervision program matches a group of 4-6 clinicians with a supervisor who provides mentorship, feedback, and opportunities for reflection critical to improving CBT implementation.

Youth and K-12

Beck Institute offers critical training to organizations that work with youth and caregivers in a variety of settings, including schools.

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CBT for Youth

This workshop focuses on the empirically supported applications of CBT with youth, emphasizing the developmentally appropriate and practical skills necessary to orient caregivers, children, and youth to the cognitive model. This workshop will teach skills to prevent the development of maladaptive cognitions and target emotion regulation, behavioral management, and cognitive flexibility to enhance the wellbeing of this and future generations.

CBT for Suicide Prevention in Youth

CBT in School Settings

This workshop focuses on the empirically supported applications of CBT with youth, emphasizing the developmentally appropriate and practical skills necessary to orient caregivers, children, and youth to the cognitive model. This training is adapted specifically for school-based practitioners and educators, recognizing the needs and challenges unique to school settings.

CBT for Teachers

Using evidence-based approaches to increase awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as decrease disruptive behaviors, this introductory training teaches essential strategies for integrating the cognitive behavioral model into curricula, classroom routines, and daily interactions with students.

CBT for Autism

This on-demand webinar focuses on adapting CBT to the unique needs of clients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This webinar covers key CBT interventions, characteristics of ASD, and specific modifications of CBT to meet the needs of clients with ASD.

CBT Strategies for Good Parenting

This on-demand webinar presents and discusses Parent Management Training (PMT), an evidence-based therapy designed to help parents and caregivers learn effective ways to respond to their children, with the aim of increasing positive behaviors and improving family relationships.

Trauma-Informed CBT for Youth

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Train the Trainer

Our Train-the-Trainer model offers comprehensive programming aimed at long-term sustainability.

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Basics of CBT: Essentials I

CBT for Depression

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 life.

CBT for Personality Disorders

Through case examples and demonstration roleplays, this course teaches participants how to use evidence-based CBT strategies to help clients diagnosed with personality disorders 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.

Training CBT Supervisors

This workshop will immerse skilled clinicians in the supervision model used at Beck Institute to evaluate supervisees’ work and provide effective feedback to promote learning and growth. Participants will learn how to use Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale – Revised (CTRS-R) and practice scoring sessions throughout the training.

Group Supervision

Our Group Supervision program matches a group of 4-6 clinicians with a supervisor who provides mentorship, feedback, and opportunities for reflection critical to improving CBT implementation.

Consultation of Supervision

Throughout 10 sessions of consultation, Beck Institute faculty will welcome questions, requests to brainstorm and problem-solve, as well as opportunities to role-play complex supervisory interactions. Supervisors will have an opportunity to extend their learning on best practices for teaching CBT principles, structuring supervision sessions, rating supervisees on the CTRS-R, providing effective feedback, utilizing cognitive conceptualization in every supervision session, and integrating cultural considerations into the supervision process.

Certification Package

Beck Institute’s rigorous CBT Certification program is designed to help participants gain a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of CBT treatment and theory. Clinicians who are certified through Beck Institute have demonstrated that they are among the best in the field.