Depression

Estimated Course Length: 3 hrs. 30 min

Course Includes: 7 modules with over 30 components in each module (components consist of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, animation explainer videos, knowledge games, and more)

Companion Videos: 20 companion videos for your clients specifically designed to reinforce skills learned in cognitive behavioral therapy for depression treatment; over 120 mental health literacy videos for clients on a host of mental health topics

Downloadable PDFs: 6 downloadable PDFs expanding on relevant course topics

Target Audience: Mental Health Providers (licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, behavioral health nurses); Physicians; Nurses

Level of Instruction: Advanced

Prerequisite: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Foundations: A Skills-Based Approach

Instructional Method: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks

Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components

After completing this course, you will be able to describe and employ the following:

1. Describe the connection between cognition, emotion, and behavior according to the CBT model. The description must include a clinical interpretation of how each component impacts and affects the others.

2. Define depression-specific cognitive distortions through the scrutiny of irrational core beliefs, expounding on these three restructuring techniques: ABCDE method, Socratic questioning, and activating choice.

3. Assess the following four behavioral activation techniques: SMART goals, action planning, utilizing rewards, and starting and maintaining a positive cycle. Scrutinize the depression-avoidance cycle, providing specifics on its reversal.

4. Compare these five strategies for coping with anhedonia: resisting blame, restoring relationships, avoiding negative coping mechanisms, and utilizing the mind-body connection.

5. Explain the techniques of behavioral and cognitive modification: teaching behavioral activation and healthy coping skills for depression and explaining client homework assignments.

6. Identify client progress using measurement-based care and client’s readiness for termination of therapy, and/or potential for relapse using a post-therapy plan that utilizes these three techniques: maintenance, anticipating setbacks, and booster sessions.

Course Activities for CE Credits: ≥ 2 hrs. 19 min.

• Pre-Course Assessment (8 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

• Module 1: Seeking Treatment (14+ minutes)

• Module 2: Starting Individualized Treatment (17+ minutes)

• Module 3: Cognitions and Depression (14+ minutes)

• Module 4: Emotions and Depression (14+ minutes)

• Module 5: Behavior and Depression (18+ minutes)

• Module 6: Tools for Behavioral Activation (14+ minutes)

• Module 7: Ending Treatment and Preventing Relapse (20+ minutes)

• Theory Tank (10+ minutes)

• Post-Course Assessment (8 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]