CBT Bundle 2 – Comprehensive CBT TrainingSchool of Health Sciences

Key Takeaway

The collaboration allows MDC to provide gold-standard CBT training developed and delivered by leaders from the Beck Institute, ensuring that participants gain up-to-date, scientifically validated knowledge and skills. This approach not only enhances professional competence among clinicians but also empowers them to deliver effective, individualised mental health interventions, positively impacting clients, families, and communities.

CBT Bundle 2 (On-Demand)

• Basics of CBT: Essentials 1
• CBT in Practice: Essentials 2
• CBT for Personality Disorders
• CBT for Depression
• CBT for Anxiety

CBT for Personality Disorders

Course Description

This on-demand course fulfills a requirement for Beck Institute CBT Certification.

Clients diagnosed with personality disorders often fail to engage in treatment, miss sessions, feel hopeless and stuck, engage in self-harm, use substances, blame others, and experience continual crises. Through case examples and demonstration roleplays, Dr. Judith S. Beck will show you how to use the therapeutic alliance to engage these clients, help them view other people more realistically, solve interpersonal problems, decrease their use of unhelpful coping behaviors, and improve their relationships. Learn how to use evidence-based CBT strategies to help clients diagnosed with personality disorders evaluate and modify their longstanding, dysfunctional core beliefs so they can change their thinking at both an intellectual and emotional level.

For more information please view the overall objectives here: https://beckinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Praxis-CBTPDOndemandCEpacket-31323.pdf

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to CBT for Personality Disorders

• Introduction to Treatment and Research
• Diagnosing Personality Disorders
• Cognitive Formulation
• Schemas, Modes, Coping Strategies, and Intermediate Beliefs
• The Problem-Based Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (PB-CCD)
• Strength-Based Formulation
• The Strength-Based Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (SB-CCD) 

Module 2: The Basics of CBT for Personality Disorders

• A Summary of CBT Treatment
• Initiating Treatment for Clients with Personality Disorders
• Treatment Planning
• Modifications in CBT Treatment for Clients with Personality Disorders
• Techniques from Other Modalities
• Emotion Regulation and Self-Compassion Techniques
• Specifying Problems
• Maladaptive Assumptions
• Therapy Session with Mary

Module 3: Strengthening Adaptive Beliefs

• Identifying or Developing Adaptive Beliefs
• Indirectly Strengthening Adaptive Beliefs
• Educating Clients About Adaptive Core Beliefs
• Motivating Clients to Strengthen Core Beliefs
• Strengthening Adaptive Beliefs Directly

Module 4: Modifying Maladaptive Beliefs

• Identifying Maladaptive Beliefs
• Educating Clients about Maladaptive Core Beliefs
• Sharing the Conceptualisation with Clients
• Explaining the Strength of Maladaptive Core Beliefs
• Motivating Clients to Modify Maladaptive Core Beliefs
• Introduction to Modifying Maladaptive Core Beliefs
• Socratic Questioning and Reframing
• Reflecting on Other People
• Self-Disclosure, Modifying Spontaneous Images, Behavioral Experiments, and Skill Building
• Cognitive Continuums, Intellectual-Emotional Role Plays, and Analogies and Metaphors
• Restructuring the Meaning of Early Experiences
• Variations for Restructuring the Meaning of Early Experience

Module 5: The Therapeutic Relationship

• Therapy-Interfering Beliefs and Coping Strategies
• Preventing Problems in the Therapeutic Relationship
• Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship
• Identifying and Conceptualising Difficulties in the Therapeutic Relationship
• Planning A Strategy
• Case Examples
• Repairing Therapeutic Relationship Ruptures
• Providing Interpersonal Feedback to Clients

Module 6: Therapists’ Unhelpful Reactions to Clients

• Recognising Unhelpful Reactions to Clients
• Conceptualising Problems
• Increasing Empathy and Modifying Expectations
• Managing Negative Reactions to Clients
• Referring Clients, Self-Care, and Increasing Your Competence

Application Prerequisite

This training is appropriate for those with a beginner to intermediate level of knowledge in a mental health or medical field, which includes but is not limited to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health counselors, and nurses.

Trainer Profile

Dr. Beck divides her time among administration, supervision and teaching, clinical work, curriculum development, research, and writing. She has been a consultant for several National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studies, has developed widely-adopted assessment scales for children and adolescents, and has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally on various applications of CBT.

CBT for Depression

Course Description

This on-demand course fulfills a requirement for Beck Institute CBT Certification.

This interactive, on-demand, multimedia course will teach you evidence-based cognitive and behavioral strategies to effectively treat clients diagnosed with depression. Learn to conceptualise clients, structure treatment, elicit and evaluate clients’ automatic thoughts, build and maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, and collaboratively develop Action Plans. Follow along as Beck Institute Executive Director Allen R. Miller, PhD, demonstrates a broad range of valuable treatment strategies backed by decades of empirical research and experience.

For more information please view the overall objectives here: https://beckinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Praxis-CBTDepressionOnDemandCEpacket-090825.docx

Course Curriculum

Module 1: The Basics of CBT for Depression

• Theory, Therapy, and Research on Depression
• Video of a Therapy Session
• Strength-Based and Problem-Based Cognitive Formulation
• Schemas
• The Cognitive Triad and the Cognitive Model 

Module 2: Planning Treatment Using Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagrams

• Introduction to the Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (CCD)
• The Strength-Based Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (SB-CCD)
• The Problem-Based Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (PB-CCD)
• Using the CCD to Plan Treatment

 Module 3: Building Blocks of Treatment

• Structure of Therapy Sessions
• Re-Establishing Rapport and Doing a Mood and Medication Check
• Bridges, Agendas, and Review of Action Plans
• Middle and End of Sessions
• The Therapeutic Relationship
• Setting Action Plans

Module 4: Beginning Treatment

• The Evaluation Session and Contacting Other Providers
• The First Session: Objectives, Structure, Beginning
• The First Session: Psychoeducation
• The First Session: Typical Day, Core Values, and Aspirations
• The First Session: Setting Goals
• First Session: The End of the Session

Module 5: Automatic Thoughts

• Basics of Automatic Thoughts
• Types of Automatic Thoughts
• Eliciting Automatic Thoughts
• Socratic Questioning to Evaluate Automatic Thoughts
• Additional Techniques to Address Automatic Thoughts 

Module 6: Core Beliefs, Coping Strategies, and Intermediate Beliefs

• Identifying and Providing Psychoeducation about Core Beliefs
• Modifying Maladaptive Core Beliefs
• Coping Strategies and Intermediate Beliefs 

Module 7: Techniques from CBT and Other Therapies

• Problem Solving, Credit Lists, and Decision Making
• Creating Therapy Notes
• Scheduling Activities
• Clinical Roundtable about Scheduling Activities
• Role Plays
• Graded Task Assignments, Skills Training, and Bibliotherapy
• Mindfulness Techniques
• Techniques from other Modalities

Module 8: Termination and Relapse Prevention

• Preparing to Terminate
• Tapering Sessions
• Activities Near Termination
• Difficulties with Termination and Booster Sessions

Application Prerequisite

This training is appropriate for those with a beginner to intermediate level of knowledge in a mental health or medical field, which includes but is not limited to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health counselors, and nurses.

Trainer Profile

Allen R. Miller, Ph.D., M.B.A., is a licensed psychologist and the Executive Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). With decades of experience, he combines clinical expertise with leadership in behavioral health care. His roles include therapy provision, programme development, research, and international CBT training and supervision.

• Leadership: Directs strategic planning, operations, and quality control at Beck Institute, ensuring accessible and affordable CBT training globally
• Clinical Experience: Extensive practice across diverse settings, including hospitals, primary care, schools, and forensic environments, treating all age groups
• Training & Supervision: Founded an APA-approved clinical psychology internship, trained psychiatry fellows, and integrates CBT into medical settings using implementation science
• Global Outreach: Actively disseminates CBT research and practices through writing and international presentations.

CBT for Anxiety

Course Description

This on-demand course fulfills a requirement for Beck Institute CBT Certification.

Learn the theory and practice of CBT for common anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder from Beck Institute senior faculty member and clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Hindman. This comprehensive, on-demand, multimedia course will show you how to apply evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions for clients diagnosed with anxiety disorders through lecture, role plays and case discussions. You’ll learn how to create a case conceptualisation, identify and evaluate anxious thoughts, incorporate mindfulness into treatment, and implement behavioral experiments and exposure exercises.

For more information please view the overall objectives here: https://learn.beckinstitute.org/s/product/cbt-for-anxiety/01t4M000004NKkLQAW#:~:text=review%20the%E2%80%AF-,overall%20objectives,-%E2%80%AFfor%20this

Course Curriculum

Module 1: The Basics (Part 1)

• Research on CBT For Anxiety Disorders
• Sarah's First Therapy Session
• The Cognitive Model
• The Risk/Resource Model
• Focus of Attention
• Anxiety about Anxiety
• Avoidance & Safety Behaviors

Module 2: The Basics (Part 2)

• The Evaluation Session
• Identifying Values and Aspirations and Setting Goals
• An Overview of Cognitive Case Conceptualisation
• The Cognitive Model
• Cognitive Models for Sarah
• Relevant Life History
• Core Beliefs
• Coping Strategies and Intermediate Beliefs
• Cognitive Case Conceptualisation
• Strength-Based Cognitive Conceptualisation Diagram (SB-CCD)
• Therapeutic Relationship
• Session Structure
• Treatment Structure

Module 3: Cognitive Interventions (Part 1)

• Presenting the Cognitive Model to Clients
• Identifying Automatic Thoughts
• Evaluating Automatic Thoughts, Gathering Evidence, and Coping Cards

Module 4: Cognitive Interventions (Part 2)

• De-Catastrophising, Problem Solving, and Alternative Explanations
• Worksheets to Evaluate and Respond to Automatic Thoughts
• In Using Cognitive Restructuring
• Cost-benefit Analyses

Module 5: Behavioral Interventions: Behavioral Experiments

• Creating and Reviewing Behavioral Experiments
• In-session Behavioral Experiments

Module 6: Behavioral Interventions: Exposures (Part 1)

• Exposure Exercises and the Cognitive Formulation of Anxiety
• The Rationale for Exposure Exercises
• Exposure Hierarchies
• An Exposure and Safety Behaviors
• The Clients’ Focus of Attention, Rating Anxiety Levels, and Cognitive Restructuring
• Reviewing Experiences and Drawing Conclusions

Module 7: Behavioral Interventions: Exposures (Part 2)

• Making Exposure Effective
• Frequency and Duration of Exposures
• Imaginal Exposures
• Exposures
• Body Sensations Exposures
• Case Example of Body Sensation Exposure
• A Recovery-Oriented Approach to Exposures

Module 8: Physiological Interventions and Mindfulness

• Physiological Interventions
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation
• Diaphragmatic Breathing
• Simple Controlled Breathing
• Mindfulness Interventions
• Therapy Session: Mindfulness of Thoughts
• Mindfulness of Sensations and Emotions
• Mindfulness for Attentional Control

Module 9: Generalised Anxiety Disorder 

• Diagnostic Criteria for GAD
• Cognitive Model of GAD and Factor 1: Intolerance of Uncertainty
• Beliefs About Worry
• Poor Problem Orientation
• Cognitive Conceptualisation: Sarah
• Worry Awareness
• Cognitive Restructuring:  Decatastrophising and Problem-Solving
• Cognitive Restructuring: A Two-Column Thought Record
• Evaluating Beliefs About Worry
• Worry Time
• In-vivo Exposure to Uncertainty
• Imaginal and Emotion Exposure
• Relaxation Training & Summary

Module 10: Panic Disorder

• Diagnostic Criteria for Panic Disorder
• Cognitive Model of Panic Disorder
• Cognitive Model of Panic Disorder Example: Mike
• Hypervigilance, Safety Behaviors, and Avoidance
• Cognitive Conceptualisation: Mike
• Tailoring CBT to Panic Disorder
• Cognitive Restructuring of the Catastrophic Misinterpretation
• Interoceptive Exposures
• Therapy Session: Interoceptive Exposure
• Breathing Retraining
• In-Vivo Exposures
• A Recovery-Oriented Approach to In-Vivo Exposures
• Strategies When Clients Refuse or Avoid Exposures
• Symptom Acceptance
• The Use of Medication

Module 11: Social Anxiety Disorder

• Diagnostic Criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder
• The Cognitive Model of Social Anxiety Disorder
• Self-Focused Attention and Constructing an Impression of Oneself as a Social Object
• Safety Behaviors
• Anxiety-Induced Skill Deficits
• Post-Event Processing
• Social Anxiety Summary and Case Example
• Tailoring CBT to Social Anxiety Disorder
• Emotional Acceptance
• Cognitive Restructuring of Anticipatory Anxiety
• A Recovery-Oriented Approach to Cognitive Restructuring
• Focus of Attention Training: Mindfulness for Attentional Control
• Focus of Attention Roleplay
• Roleplay Exposures with Video or Audio Feedback
• Post-Event Processing Reduction
• In-Vivo Exposures and Social Mishap Exposures

Module 12: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Overview of Cognitive Model of OCD and Unwanted Mental Intrusions
• Appraisals of Obsessions
• Neutralising Compulsions
• Appraisals of Control
• Cognitive Conceptualisation: Paul
• The Longitudinal Formulation of Paul
• Tailoring CBT to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Psychoeducation
• Cognitive Restructuring of Appraisals of Obsessions
• Behavioral Experiments
• In-vivo Exposure and Response Prevention
• Exposure Hierarchies
• Imaginal Exposure and Response Prevention
• Mindfulness of Intrusions
• Relapse Prevention
• Obstacles in Treating OCD
• A Recovery-Oriented Approach for OCD

Application Prerequisite

This training is appropriate for those with a beginner to intermediate level of knowledge in a mental health or medical field, which includes but is not limited to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health counselors, and nurses.

Trainer Profile

Dr. Hindman is a licensed psychologist at an independent practice. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the Catholic University of America, where his research focused on stress, anxiety, and mindfulness. He developed two mindfulness-focused stress reduction programs for his dissertation research. Dr. Hindman completed his clinical internship at the Coatesville VA medical center and post-doctoral fellowship at Beck Institute. He has co-authored book chapters on anxiety and mindfulness as well as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, written the Beck Institute online course on CBT for Anxiety Disorders, and has published several journal articles. Currently, Dr. Hindman provides Cognitive Behavior Therapy for clients with diverse presenting problems. In his role as a Beck Institute faculty member, he teaches CBT to a wide variety of mental health professionals and paraprofessionals. He has also presented to national and international audiences on the topic of CBT for anxiety disorders. Dr. Hindman also conducts individual and group consultation and supervision for therapists looking to learn or improve their skills in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In addition, Dr. Hindman collaborates on research that aims to determine effective ways for organizations and therapists to adopt and be trained in CBT.