full day workshop

THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPIES
Keith Dobson, University of Calgary, Canada and  Don Beal, Eastern Kentucky University, USA

AC Hotel Room: Gracia

Over the last forty-five years there has been remarkable growth in the cognitive-behavioral therapies worldwide.  By 1988, there were at least twelve therapies which could be legitimately placed under the rubric of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This number has continued to expand, with the addition of empirically supported cognitive-behavioral interventions for the treatment of numerous disorders to include treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder and CBT for schizophrenic delusions, among others.      A frequently held assumption is that all of these procedures are the same: that they have the same underlying assumptions, similar treatment strategies, and similar approaches.  Indeed, nothing could be more misleading.  While these approaches share a number of fundamental assumptions, they are widely divergent on a variety of dimensions.  The purpose of this workshop is to present a general overview of these varying approaches, and then to present in detail a representative of each of the major cognitive-behavioral camps.  Videotape presentations of representative sessions of each of the major CBT approaches will be presented.   Topics to be covered include: An Overview of the Cognitive-Behavioral approaches; Rational Emotive Therapy; Cognitive Therapy; Problem Solving Approaches; Constructivist Approaches; The present and future of the CBT's; and Recent developments in CBT.

Keith Dobson, Ph.D. is a Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, Calgary Canada.  Dr. Dobson’s research interests are in the area of the Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions, and particularly in the area of cognition and various psychopathological states; notably depression.    Don Beal, Ph.D. is a Professor and the Coordinator of Clinical Training at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond Kentucky.  Dr. Beal’s research interests are in the area of training and assessing the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy training.

Key References:
Dobson, K.S. (2001). Handbook of cognitive-behavioral Therapy,(2nd  Edition.  New York: Guilford Press.  
Dobson, K.S., & Craig, K.D. (1998).  Empirically Supported Therapies: Best Practice In Professional Psychology (Banff Conference on Behavioral Sciences Series).  California: Sage Publications.