Intermediate: Cognitive Behavior Therapy- (Fully Accredited) | Free Udemy Course

Welcome to the course and thankyou for your purchase.  Please remember to ask questions, send me feedback, share your thoughts and feelings!  Thanks again.

For those that need it, here is a brief recap of the basics of CBT, especially in relation to thinking errors that play a part in psychological distress

Here is a brief overview of the main theory of CBT often referred to the Grand Theory of CBT and how it explains psychological distress.

This is a helpful narrated video/diagram showing how Negative Automatic Thoughts, Life Rules and Core Beliefs are related, and how they serve to cause and maintain psychological distress

Here we start to look at examples of unhelpful Life Rules and how they can impact on us.

More about the unhelpful Life Rules and how they impact on us.

The more examples the better, can you identify with any of the unhelpful Life Rules discussed so far?

When we evaluate others negatively, we often then fall into the habit of evaluating ourselves negatively and we feel dreadful as a result.

Life Rules, although beneath the surface of our immediate awareness are always having an impact on the thoughts we have on a day to day basis.  In this video, that relationship is explained.

Begin to think about some of your family mottoes and sayings from the past and how these may have become Life Rules that are no longer serving you in the here and now.  This video explores some examples of family sayings.

Here we begin the important process of evaluating the Life Rules that we have, sorting them into helpful and unhelpful, supportive and unsupportive etc.

A vital part of the exploration of Life Rules is where we begin to look at the effects of the Life Rules that we have, here we look at the pro's and cons of each.

A typical task in CBT generally is where we ask clients to explore and list the costs and benefits of the thoughts they have, the Life Rules they live by and even the Core Beliefs that they have.

Lots of questions to ask yourself, to consider and to ponder in relation to your Life Rules.

Identifying your Life Rules is an essential part of the process in CBT.

Life Rules will have developed over many years and via many experiences, both good and bad, they dont disappear overnight, they can be stubborn, so we have to patiently persevere, whilst being kind to ourselves.

Here we look at the work we need to do in identifying our Life Rules

More work on exploring the impact of your Life Rules.

We have to full explore our Life Rules so that we understand them fully and how they impact on us, before we can give them the boot!

This is the part of the course where the fun starts, we get to explore alternative Life Rules that are going to serve us better, they will be helpful, supportive, kind, reassuring, and above all fit for purpose!

Plenty of examples of more helpful, realistic, supportive, compassionate Life Rules.

What? even more examples of Helpful Life Rules...the more the better.  Can you identify with any of these new Life Rules?  How do you think they would impact on you and the way you feel if you adopted them?

Here is where we get to summarise, implement and practise our newly created Life Rules

Out with the old and in with the new I always like to say, especially where old Life Rules that no longer serve us are concerned!

More work on the summarising of those alternative Life Rules

Here is a task using the Life Rules worksheet, which you can find in the final section of this course.

Think of Life Rules as being similar to a list of company rules at a place of work, here you are tasked to think about their impact and what alternatives you can find.

Thank you so much for taking this course, I am very grateful to you.  I hope you have found it useful and informative.  Please remember to give feedback!  My best to you.