Course Description
*This complete Online Course includes a PDF of the book, Heal Your Self: A CBT Approach to Reducing Therapist Distress & Increasing Therapist Effectiveness, and the Final Exam. If you have access to the book and want to purchase the Final Exam only, click here.
Taking care of yourself as a therapist both personally and professionally is vital to your ability to help others. In this program, Dr. Ludgate discusses the signs of possible stress/burnout in mental health practitioners and provides a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy model of distress in therapists. He then presents a variety of common situations where stress can often be elevated in the therapist and gives a number of CBT strategies for coping with and reducing this distress so you can become more therapeutically effective.
4 CE credits/hours, 40 questions
Target Audience
Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers
Learning Level
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Describe the signs of possible stress/burnout in mental health practitioners.
Explain a CBT model of distress in therapists.
Present a conceptualization of distress in mental health providers.
Offer CBT strategies to reduce therapist distress.

John W. Ludgate, PhD
Course curriculum
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Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)
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2
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PDF Book (downloadable/printable)
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3
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"Heal Your Self: A CBT Approach to Reducing Therapist Distress & Increasing Therapist Effectiveness" - Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)
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Final Exam
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Evaluation Questionnaire
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