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Core Topics in CBT

Cognitive Restructuring: Challenging Unhelpful Thinking

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

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

The session

From the model to your practice

  1. The model
    • Identifying common thinking styles (catastrophising, mind-reading, all-or-nothing thinking).
    • The structure of a thought record: situation, thought, evidence for and against, balanced alternative.
    • Common pitfalls: turning restructuring into forced positivity rather than balanced thinking.
  2. Your questions, live. This is the part a recording cannot give you.
  3. In practice, in Flutura
    • An interactive thought-record worksheet from the library, completed on a client's device.
    • How a therapist reviews a completed worksheet and the client's answers.
    • The AI-assisted note that turns a session discussing the thought record into an editable clinical note.

Learning outcomes

What you will leave with

  • A genuinely interactive alternative to the paper thought record most therapists already use.
  • How digital thought records reduce the 'forgotten homework' problem common in practice.
  • A template you can trial with clients immediately, in the app or adapted for your own use.

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

    Behavioural Activation for Low Mood

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

    Register for Behavioural Activation for Low Mood

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 4 November

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Wednesday 4 November, 6pm to 6.30pm.

Free, live online.