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Core Topics in CBT

Behavioural Activation for Low Mood

Using activity and behaviour change to lift mood, independent of how a client currently feels.

Registration is through Eventbrite, run by Practical CBT, Professor McGhee's training organisation.

The session

From the model to your practice

  1. The model
    • The vicious cycle of withdrawal, inactivity and worsening mood in depression.
    • Activity scheduling and grading tasks by mastery and pleasure.
    • Setting achievable, values-linked goals rather than vague 'get more active' instructions.
  2. Your questions, live. This is the part a recording cannot give you.
  3. In practice, in Flutura
    • Setting a graded activity as homework between sessions, from the dashboard.
    • Tracking a client's active tasks and completion rate, week on week.
    • Protocols as curated, evidence-based pathways you can assign as a structured programme, rather than one worksheet at a time.

Learning outcomes

What you will leave with

  • How structured, trackable homework improves follow-through compared with a printed activity diary.
  • How progress data, such as completion rate and active tasks, supports session planning and review.
  • How a protocol-based pathway keeps a course of behavioural activation coherent from session to session.

Who teaches it

Professor Patrick McGhee

Chartered Psychologist and BABCP-accredited CBT therapist, 30 years across clinical practice, research and higher education. Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Greater Manchester and the author of The Ultimate CBT Handbook.

He co-founded Flutura.

Our story

Practicalities

How it works

Free to attend. Held live, and the recording comes to you afterwards.

Registration is through Eventbrite, run by Practical CBT, Professor McGhee's training organisation. Your joining details arrive by email.

Delivered by BABCP-accredited practitioners; certificate of attendance and reflective statement template issued after every session, so it can count towards your annual CPD. The certificate is for live attendance.

The schedule

What is coming up

Core Topics in CBT

  1. Open for registration

    Foundations of CBT: The Thought-Feeling-Behaviour Triangle

    Introduces the CBT model itself, for attendees new to the approach or wanting a refresher.

    Register for Foundations of CBT: The Thought-Feeling-Behaviour Triangle

  2. Open for registration

    Cognitive Restructuring: Challenging Unhelpful Thinking

    The classic thought record and the skill of evaluating, rather than suppressing, unhelpful thoughts.

    Register for Cognitive Restructuring: Challenging Unhelpful Thinking

Also coming

  • Understanding OCD: Breaking the Cycle
  • Panic Disorder: Understanding and Overcoming Panic Attacks
  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Taming the Worry Cycle
  • Social Anxiety: Stepping Out of the Spotlight
  • Health Anxiety: When Worry About Illness Takes Over
  • Sleep Problems: CBT for Insomnia
  • Perfectionism and Procrastination: Breaking the Cycle

Register for 2 December

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Wednesday 2 December, 6pm to 6.30pm.

Free, live online.