Live Trainings
Live open enrollment trainings and webinars will be offered throughout the year by NACBTp trainers.
INSPIRE Training
2024 CBT for psychosis Informed Skills
This training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) informed skills includes a 3-day workshop (spread over 6 weeks) plus 12 consultation sessions offered every other week for 6 months.
Combined, these learning formats provide an opportunity not only to learn the CBTp model, but to develop clinical skills through practice.
When:
Starting October 31, 2024
Weekly workshop sessions October 31st to December 12th, 2024
9:00am - 1:00pm (PST) / 12:00pm - 4:00pm (EST)
Where: Virtual Online Training
Cost:
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Early Bird $ 1,650.00 (deadline 9/20)
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Regular $ 1,800.00 (deadline 10/20)
CBT for FEP Training
We are excited to announce the return of a popular open enrollment workshop for 2025, with Dr Riggs facilitating the live webinars again for the first time in several years! This is a simplified version of our Full CBTp workshop, deliberately targeted for clinicians working in Early Intervention or First Episode Psychosis Services. CBT for psychosis (CBTp) is an evidence-based treatment, commonly available in Europe, and recommended by best practice guidelines in both the US and the UK in the early intervention for psychosis.
When: Online, On-Demand Material Goes Live: January 13th, 2025. Three Live Webinars on February 10th, 2025,
February 24th, 2025, &
March 3rd, 2025
Cost:
Full Price - $1149
Early Bird - $1049 (until January 13, 2025 using coupon code earlybirdFEP2025)
Registration Closes on January 27th, 2025
Foundations of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis
This 4-hour virtual workshop will provide an introductory overview to the foundations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp). It will provide an introduction to CBT, explore how this approach is applied to working with individuals with both long-standing and early psychosis, and introduce key CBTp skills. The format of the workshop will include didactics, breakout groups for clinical discussion, clinical case presentation and experiential exercises.
When: September 27th, 2024
9:00am - 1:00pm PST / 12:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Cost:
Early Bird Discount Price: $50 (Ends on August 16th, 2024)
Regular Price: $75
*Please note we do not offer CE credits for this workshop. Participants will receive a certificate of completion 2 weeks after the workshop
CBT for Psychosis
Enhance your understanding of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Psychosis, providing you with valuable insights and practical techniques to assist your clients effectively. Our approach is comprehensive and evidence-based, ensuring that you acquire the skills necessary to make a positive impact in your professional practice.
Combining online on-demand content with three live webinars, this workshop is designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience for all mental health professionals and trainees. This year, it is going to be facilitated by Dr. Riggs!
When:
Online Material Goes Live:
August 12th, 2024
Live Webinar (1/3):
Sept 9th, 2024
Live Webinar (2/3):
Sept 16th, 2024
Live Webinar (3/3):
Sept 23rd, 2024
Cost:
Full Price: $1149
Early bird discount until August 12th 2024: $1049
(Use code earlybirdspecial_2024)
Registration Closes on August 26th, 2024
Conceptualization-Driven Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis
This 5-Day experiential workshop focuses on developing clinical skills for working with clients experiencing distressing psychosis. This recovery-focused approach focuses on cognitive case conceptualization and treatment planning for a variety of experiences of psychosis including delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and communication disturbances. This workshop emphasizes practical development of clinical skills through live clinical demonstrations, video demonstrations, case examples, role-plays, and discussions of common challenges treating psychosis.
When: Delivered virtually on Zoom from 9:00 – 4:00 EST on consecutive Fridays over 5 weeks beginning September 20th, 2024. Workshop recordings will be made available to all attendees.
Early Bird Cost (Before August 16th):
Graduate Students: $400
Postdoc/MD Residents: $500
Healthcare Professionals: $600
Master Clinician Series 2024
The Master Clinician Series offers a variety of monthly virtual 4-hour workshops focusing on clinical interventions for psychosis. The Master Clinician Series is designed for clinicians with experience of working with individuals with complex mental health needs (including psychosis and bipolar disorder) who are interested in learning skills to advance their clinical practice.
When: Third Friday of each month
9:00am-1:00pm PST/ 12:00-4:00pm EST
Cost:
Bundle Pricing Available Until January 31, 2024
Bundle Package - Full Price
$1545
Bundle Package - Affiliate*
$1310
*Affiliate = participants who have completed (or who are currently undergoing) training and consultation with Stanford faculty
Feeling Safe Workshop led by Professor Daniel Freeman and Dr. Louise Isham
INSPIRE training is excited to announce an in-person clinician training in the Feeling Safe Program led by Professor Daniel Freeman and Dr Louise Isham, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. The Feeling Safe Program is a cognitive-behavioral treatment for individuals with psychosis. Developed with over a decade's research, it is the most effective psychological treatment for persecutory delusions currently available. Join us to participate in this unique opportunity to learn the Feeling Safe protocol from the developers of the model offered for the first time in the USA.
Registration is now open.
When: Monday, September 16th 2024 to Thursday, September 19th 2024 at the Oceano Hotel and Spa, Half Moon Bay, California
Cost:
Full rate: $1550Stanford Affiliate*: $1450
Early bird Full: $1450
Early bird Stanford Affiliate*: $1250
**Affiliate = participants who have completed (or who are currently undergoing) training and consultation with Stanford faculty
Learning CBT for Psychosis: A Series of Live Online Seminars
This series of seminars instructed by Ron Unger LCSW provides an overview of CBTp, while also exploring essential techniques, approaches for specific problem areas like voices, paranoia, and distressing beliefs, the intersection of trauma and psychosis, and approaches to cultural and spiritual issues within treatment.
Each seminar will be 4 hours long, and will provide time for questions, discussion, and practice. Continuing education credits will be available for most US professionals.
When:
March 29, 2024
April 26, 2024
May 10, 2024
June 21, 2024
July 19, 2024
August 16, 2024
You will have the option of attending these seminars online, or in person in Eugene Oregon.
Cost:
$59.99 per seminar if you take advantage of all of the early bird and bundle discounts.
More details about the early bird and bundle discounts can be found by using the link below.
On-Demand Trainings
Pre-recorded courses and webinars are available on-demand.
Click on the links below to learn more about each offering.
Working with Substance Abuse within CBTp
This 3 hour course is intended to provide clinicians who are trained in CBTp additional training on how to work with Substance Use within the context of CBT. The course will provide a comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationship between substance abuse and schizophrenia, focusing on co-occurrence and effective treatment strategies. Through units covering diverse topics such as integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), cognitive models of substance abuse, tailored psychoeducation, and coping with cravings, you will learn to collaboratively address these complex issues.
Cost: $79.99
Until August 31, 2024, you can purchase each course for a 50% discount using the code BEST50
CBTp: Working with PTSD, Trauma, and Dissociation
This 3-hour course is intended to provide clinicians who are trained in CBTp additional training on how to work with PTSD, trauma and dissociation within the context of CBTp treatment.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1) Conceptualize psychosis from a trauma-informed perspective
2) Identify when it is appropriate to integrate trauma into CBTp
3) Understand trauma within the context of comorbid PTSD & psychosis
4) Learn skills to address trauma within CBTp
Cost: $79.99
Until August 31, 2024, you can purchase each course for a 50% discount using the code BEST50
Fundamentals Behind CBT for Psychosis
This first course will address the Fundamentals Behind CBT for psychosis. It will provide a foundational training for those licensed clinicians looking to get competency, and it will also provide a useful stand alone training for frontline staff looking to learn techniques to help them work more effectively with psychosis and reduce burnout. Recently re-launched with 5 CE credits available.
Cost: $369
CBT for psychosis
This 6 hour course, with APA & some other CE credit, presents the fundamentals of CBTp as an individualized, recovery oriented approach. Learn the basics of collaboration, normalizing, developing a map or formulation, and then addressing each of the major problem areas associated with psychosis.
Cost: $89
Working with Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychosis
Discover how CBT and some other approaches can be helpful and can support recovery for people who have experienced trauma that then led to dissociation and psychosis. This is a 6 hour course.
Cost: $95
CBTp e-primer course
This free self-paced 3-hour course, sponsored by SAMHSA, is open to all learners. It is designed as an introduction to foundational concepts related to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and its application to psychotic symptoms and experiences. This course offers 3 continuing education credits for completion. Modules include:
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Psychosis Education
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CBT Fundamentals
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Applying CBT to Psychosis
Cost: Free
CBTp: Understanding the Basics
This free 1-hour webinar hosted by SMI Advisor provides clinicians and clinicians-in-training with a brief orientation to the application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to psychotic symptoms and disorders, its evidence base and the core principles and techniques of the intervention. This training offers 1 continuing education credit.
Supporting a Loved One with Psychosis
This free 1-hour webinar will explain how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) can effectively support loved ones experiencing psychosis. An overview will be provided, along with key skills family members can draw on to support their lived one.
Telehealth and Individual CBTp
This free 1-hour webinar aims to help practitioners consider critical intervention targets and high-yield motivational, cognitive, and behavioral strategies that are amenable to telephonic encounters, telehealth, or digital accompaniment. Companion clinical tip sheets and self-directed CBT for psychosis learning resources are available.
Telehealth and
Group CBTp
This free 45-minute webinar discusses:
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How is group CBTp different or the same via teletherapy?
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What problems can arise and how to resolve them?
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Does it work as well as in person?
Psychosis REACH Training
Psychosis REACH is intended to teach family members and caregivers CBTp-informed skills and strategies to improve communication and their relationships with loved ones with psychosis.
Trainings have been scheduled through 2023.
CBT for psychosis:
Evidence and Evolution
This free 1-hour webinar provides an overview of the evidence base, the evolution of CBTp models of clinical application and highlights key training and implementation challenges in
North America.
Conferences
Learn more about upcoming conferences
International Society of Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis - US Chapter (ISPS-US) 2024 Hybrid Annual Conference
The event takes place from November 1st-3rd in Pittsburgh, PA and online via Zoom.
CEs available for APA, ASWB, and ACCME.
November 1st: full-day pre-conference workshop with Professor Craig Steel from the University of Oxford, England, titled "Formulating Psychosis in the Context of Trauma"
November 2-3rd : full conference experience to be held at Duquesne University.
Pre-conference workshop registration is separate and can be purchased here.
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 58th Annual Convention
November 14-17, 2024
Philadelphia, PA
Join 3,000 mental health professionals and students specializing in behavioral and cognitive therapies who will be attending the upcoming ABCT Annual Convention. This convention will provide the opportunity to discuss, one-on-one, your products and services with mental health professionals and students. Guided by the theme "Cultivating Joy with CBT", this year's invited addresses feature themes of improving access to care, providing trauma- and culturally-informed care, and the practice of joy in healing.
ISPS-US 2024 Hybrid Conference
New Beginnings: Reimagining Psychosis Services & Systems in the US
NOVEMBER 1ST, 2024: Pre-Conference Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh with Professor Craig Steel
NOVEMBER 2ND-3RD, 2024: Full Conference at Duquesne University, Hybrid Online
This ISPS-US annual conference aims to generate substantive conversation about the current state of psychosis and inspire thoughtful conversations about future change. Panels and presentations will feature leaders across the areas of activism/advocacy, research, policy, and clinical practice.
International Early Psychosis Association 15 Conference
September 8-10, 2025
Berlin, Germany
More information coming soon! Click the link below to view the Save the Date.