Topic: These presentations guide the therapist through the stages of CBT for panic and agoraphobia. Role plays and lecture are used to show how to draw out a collaborative formulation, socialise the patient to the cognitive model, design effective behavioural experiments, and use imagery techniques to work with upsetting memories and images.
Presenter: Ann Hackman – particularly known for her pioneering research, writing and teaching on the role of imagery and memory in the anxiety disorders, and Freda McManus – currently the Director of the University of Oxford’s Postgraduate (Masters level) Diploma in Cognitive Therapy, and a Clinical Research Fellow in the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry.
Level: Intermediate-Advanced: The presentations are suitable for high-intensity trainees and workers within the IAPT programme or experienced CBT practitioners.
- Understanding panic disorder (duration 22:09)
- Treatment of panic disorder: discovering the true causes and consequences of panic symptoms (duration 34:56)
- Understanding agoraphobia (duration 9:31)
- Comparing image against reality in agoraphobia (duration 24:57)
- Re-scripting upsetting memories in agoraphobia (duration 47:11)
