#BU-03-34 CBT with Older People
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
UEA (University of East Anglia)Description
Enhance your knowledge of CBT and ageing, and how to use CBT with older people
This online course provides an efficient introduction to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with older people.
You’ll first cover the basic theory and practice of CBT, before focussing on how working with older people can be different, because of comorbidity, complexity, chronicity, and continuity and contextual factors.
You’ll also become knowledgeable about normal and healthy ageing – as well as late life depression and anxiety disorders – which may influence your expectations for optimal treatment outcomes when using CBT with older people.
What topics will you cover?
- Introduction to CBT, covering the fundamentals of an evidence-based approach to structured psychological therapy for depression and the anxiety disorders.
- Introduction to Ageing. Providing a contemporary account of ageing in the UK and within a modern global approach to ageing. Completing this course students will have a greater appreciation of what is and isn’t normal ageing.
- Introduction to age-appropriate CBT. A modern theory enhanced account of how CBT is different with Older People with a description of some new age-specific cognitive and behavioural interventions.
Who will you learn with?
Professor Ken Laidlaw, Head of Department of Clinical Psychology at UEA has over 20 years of clinical experience with older people. Ken conducted the first UK RCT of individual CBT with Older People.
Dr Adrian Leddy is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the NHS with older adults for 14 years. He has been a Clinical Tutor on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Course at UEA since 2012.
Who developed the course?
The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.
What Will I Learn?
- Discuss CBT theory and how this is relevant for effective treatment outcome.
- Describe normal ageing and how this may be important when using CBT for late life depression and the anxiety disorders.
- Develop a working knowledge of the latest evidence on efficacy of CBT with Older People.
- Describe an age-appropriate approach to CBT and when it may be used.
- Create a treatment plan for CBT with Older People.
Topics for this course
Introduction to the course
Welcome to the course
Meet the team and introduce yourself
Demographic change and normal ageing
This course features an introduction to CBT and covers the fundamentals of evidence-based structured psychotherapy for depression and anxiety. It is suitable for us doctors to study, and also suitable for us to recommend to the families of patients in need.
Yes, the course taught me about normal and healthy aging -- as well as depression and anxiety in later life -- which may affect our expectations for optimal treatment outcomes when CBT is used on the elderly. It's a great course. It's worth learning.
This course introduces the basic theory and practice of CBT, and then focuses on what makes working with older people different because of comorbidities, complexity, duration, continuity, and background factors. I think this is the best part, and I want you to pay attention to it. It's a great course.
This course allowed me to increase my knowledge of CBT and aging, and how to use CBT for the elderly. We should take good care of our parents and the old people around us.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, allied health professionals, nurses and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) professionals, who come into contact with older people in clinical practice.