3. Workshop content
• Deepen your understanding of how CBT,
ACT, DBT and CFT can work together
• Use NAVIGATES to guide yourself and
your client through therapy
• Learn how to clarify values
4. Workshop content
• Analyse problem behaviour
• Understand when to tackle trauma
• Use the self-help book Get Your Life Back
and downloadable materials from the
website to help your clients’ progress
19. Name and be mindfully
Aware of the problem
behaviour(s)
• Identify each behaviour so that you
can “see” it in your own mind
• Formulate each behaviour with client
20. • Guess the
Wheel Of
Experience
Thoughts Feelings
Body
Sensations
Behaviour
21. Awareness
• Awareness of thoughts, feelings, etc during
the target behaviours
• Awareness of TFBBs about the target
behaviours
• Awareness of how the target behaviours
keep life restricted and distressing
24. Values
• In my relationships I would like to
be…
• In my health I would like to be…
• In my job/spending my day I would
like to be…
• In my leisure/personal growth I
would like to be…
25.
26. Take a moment
• Choose just one area and write down two
or three words which reflect your values
• Relationships
• Health
• Work/how I spend my day
• Leisure/personal growth/contribution
27. Mandy Values
• Be independent (able to earn some
money)
• Be someone who looks after my
health
• Show love and care to my cats
• Be a loving supporting friend to Gill
31. Behaviour Analysis
• Chain analysis (DBT)
• Unpack the CBT Wheel of Experience into
a sequence
• Look for trigger events
• Look for reinforcement (short term gain)
• Look for consequences (long term pain)
33. Self harm
behaviour chain
Call from
Mum She hates
me
Heart
rate,
sweating
Rage
Decide to
cut
Go to
bedroomGet blade
cut arms
Relief
Calm
feeling
Urge to
cut
Hide cuts
Shame
Short term gain
Long term pain
Target
behaviour
35. Call from
Mum
She hates
me
Heart
rate,
sweating
Rage
Decide to
cut
Go to
bedroom
Get blade
cut armsRelief
Calm
feeling
Urge to
cut
Hide cuts
Shame
Short term gain
Long term pain
Target
behaviour
Keeping razor blades in bedroom
Believing Mum hates me
Staying up late drinking
Believing I’m no good
36. Breaking The Links
• Can work on vulnerability cloud or
on behaviour chain
• List with client all the things they
could do differently next time
• Offer coaching if appropriate
• Choose three
• Make a plan (My Breaking The
Links Plan)
42. Accept self and others, validate
and be compassionate
• Teach client acceptance and
self-validation
– Model this in the
relationship
– Teach validating others first
43. Acceptance and Self-
Validation
• Believing I’m no good
• My inner critic as The Bully
• Perfect Nurturer
• Two Chair Work
• Mindfulness
48. Childhood Adversity
• Abuse and neglect obviously have long
lasting consequences
• The self-self and self-other relations which
the client brings to the therapy reflect this
damage
• The coping strategies to deal with distress
are mostly learned early in life
49. Dissociation
• 15-30% of PTSD presentations involve
dissociative symptoms
• Early trauma tends to produce dissociation
• Three levels at which dissociation affects us:
– Perceptual
– Experiential
– Personality
53. Emotions and Exposure -
learn to identify, experience
and regulate emotions
• Not all clients can answer “How do you
feel?”
• How articulate is your client about
emotions?
– Identifying, labelling, expressing
• Education and skills for handling emotions
(see skills section)
• Horrible feelings (emotions) are what we
usually work to avoid
54. Exposure
and Emotions
• Exposure involves willingness to approach
what is usually avoided
• What are the key avoidance patterns in
your client’s behaviour? (see chain
analyses)
• What emotions are ‘hot’ in your client’s
chain analysis?
55. Exposure
• Cultivating willingness (Mindfulness)
• Graded exposure aimed at increased
willingness
• Behavioural experiments
• Inner child work
58. Skills
• What skills are essential for your client to
learn?
– Handling thoughts, feelings, images,
body sensations
– Relationship with self and others
• What is the plan to teach the skills and
ensure skills generalisation?
60. Skills Training
• Direct training
• Modelling, shaping, reinforcing
• Attention to generalisation
61. TIPP skills
• Change the Temperature of your face
• Intense exercise
• Paced breathing
• Progressive relaxation
62. Thought handling
• CFT
– Compassionate mind training
• CBT:
– Thought reviewing
– Socratic Questioning
• Mindfulness
– Thought Soldiers
• ACT: defusion
– Singing in the Shower
– Cartoon Voices
68. Want more?
• www.greenwoodmentors.com/events
• Two Day Event Supercharge Your Practice
with CBT+
– integrating CBT DBT ACT and CFT
– London and Online
– 31st October and 1st November 2019
• Two day event on PTSD and Dissociation
– London and Online
– 19th and 20th September 2019