Social Anxiety and Shyness
A user-friendly Cognitive Behavioural Treatment Protocol
Learn how to integrate CBT into your practice
Date and Time: Saturday, September 14th 2019. - 9.30am to 4.30pm - Registration from 9.00am
Venue: Navan Education Centre, Athlumney, Navan, County Meath.
Cost: €135
CPD Hours: 6
Lunch and Refreshments Included
Venue: Navan Education Centre, Athlumney, Navan, County Meath.
Cost: €135
CPD Hours: 6
Lunch and Refreshments Included
Why do this Course?
While a degree of anxiety is normal (and natural) in certain social situations, some people can become excessively anxious before – and during – such situations. This anxiety, specific to social situations, can cause great suffering and disruption and is believed to affect about one in eight adults in Ireland at any one time. For children and teenagers too, it can greatly disrupt school and education experiences. In an age of social media, many studies are now looking at how an increase in online interactions might be leaving us less practiced in, and therefore more anxious about, real face-to-face interactions!
Many people are, unfortunately, suffering in silence – either because they are not asking for help or because they simply cannot access help. But help is available. Psychotherapy helps. More specifically, certain cognitive behavioural psychotherapy treatment protocols have proven themselves to be very effective for social anxiety and shyness.
NICE1 guidelines recommend that such CBT treatments be delivered by ’trained and supervised people, closely adhering to empirically grounded treatment protocols’. Research is showing, however, that ‘non-cbt’ psychotherapists, who are properly trained (and supervised) in a specific cognitive behavioural protocol - for a specific issue/disorder - can also produce good outcomes. The benefits of this are obvious: effective talk therapies, delivered to a high standard of competency, and accessible to more people, more promptly.
This one-day workshop has been carefully designed to provide psychotherapists with a structured, easy-to-use, treatment protocol that is suitable to use with clients who present with social anxiety. Whether your established way of working with clients is ‘cognitive behavioural’ or ‘integrative’, this training course will equip you to work confidently and effectively with the client who presents with this issue.
(follow-up training and supervision may be provided on request)
Many people are, unfortunately, suffering in silence – either because they are not asking for help or because they simply cannot access help. But help is available. Psychotherapy helps. More specifically, certain cognitive behavioural psychotherapy treatment protocols have proven themselves to be very effective for social anxiety and shyness.
NICE1 guidelines recommend that such CBT treatments be delivered by ’trained and supervised people, closely adhering to empirically grounded treatment protocols’. Research is showing, however, that ‘non-cbt’ psychotherapists, who are properly trained (and supervised) in a specific cognitive behavioural protocol - for a specific issue/disorder - can also produce good outcomes. The benefits of this are obvious: effective talk therapies, delivered to a high standard of competency, and accessible to more people, more promptly.
This one-day workshop has been carefully designed to provide psychotherapists with a structured, easy-to-use, treatment protocol that is suitable to use with clients who present with social anxiety. Whether your established way of working with clients is ‘cognitive behavioural’ or ‘integrative’, this training course will equip you to work confidently and effectively with the client who presents with this issue.
(follow-up training and supervision may be provided on request)
What will I get from this course?
On completion of this one-day workshop, participants will;
- Know the criteria for assessing, diagnosing (DSM V), and measuring social anxiety disorder/social phobia
- Have a clear understanding of the differences and similarities between social anxiety and other anxiety disorders
- Be clear on the theory and the structure of a specific cognitive behavioural treatment protocol for social anxiety (Clark & Wells, ’95).
- Be practiced in having a structured conversation, and developing a cognitive behavioural ‘case formulation’, with a client
- Be confident in presenting this case formulation to the client, as a way to understand THEIR social anxiety
- Know how best to present the treatment plan to the client (either as a stand-alone treatment, or as a specific protocol-driven treatment integrated into their broader therapy programme)
- be practiced in ‘cognitive re-structuring’ techniques, as a means to challenge some of the client’s unhelpful thoughts and beliefs about his/her experiences
- be practiced in applying simple (but powerful) ‘behavioural experiments’ that further help to challenge the client’s beliefs about his/her social experiences
- Leave with a comprehensive resource pack, packed with useful information and resources to support them - and their clients - throughout the treatment process.
- have explored how this treatment can be modified to best suit children/teenage clients.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is influenced by the amazing work being done in the UK on ‘Improving access to psychological therapies’(IAPT). Extensive clinical studies have shown that ‘low intensity’ cognitive behavioural interventions can be delivered, safely and competently, by psychotherapists from different theoretical backgrounds - as well as other healthcare practitioners (GPs, practice nurses, social workers…) if they receive appropriate training.
If you work regularly with clients who struggle with mild-moderate social anxiety, then this course will add tremendously to your skills, and your confidence, in working with this group. Prior introductory training in CBT will, of course, be beneficial. However, no previous such CBT training is necessary for this workshop. If you want a learning experience that fully equips you to deliver a proven treatment intervention, with confidence and expertise – then this is the course for you!
If you work regularly with clients who struggle with mild-moderate social anxiety, then this course will add tremendously to your skills, and your confidence, in working with this group. Prior introductory training in CBT will, of course, be beneficial. However, no previous such CBT training is necessary for this workshop. If you want a learning experience that fully equips you to deliver a proven treatment intervention, with confidence and expertise – then this is the course for you!
About the Presenter
Rosario Nolan is a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. She is based in Navan, Co. Meath, where she has been running a busy private practice for the past fifteen years, specialising in the treatment of Depression and the Anxiety disorders.
Aside from working as a psychotherapist, Rosario presents, facilitates and teaches Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to psychotherapists, psychotherapy students, healthcare practitioners and members of the public. She is committed to making excellent CBT treatments available and accessible to as many people as possible, through;
As someone very experienced in CPD training and supervision - both as participant and leader – Rosario believes that the learning experience, be it in training or supervision, should adhere to the cognitive behavioural therapy model – using Structure, Collaborative Empiricism, Guided Discovery...and Creativity! She is also very interested in making best use of technology to assist learning – in therapy and in training.
Rosario holds a Masters degree in Family Therapy & Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a certificate in clinical Supervision. She is an accredited practitioner with both BACP and BABCP.
Aside from working as a psychotherapist, Rosario presents, facilitates and teaches Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to psychotherapists, psychotherapy students, healthcare practitioners and members of the public. She is committed to making excellent CBT treatments available and accessible to as many people as possible, through;
- Individual CBT
- Training other health and psychotherapy professionals to deliver ‘low intensity’ CBT (using specific protocols)
- Providing CBT clinical supervision to further support best practice.
As someone very experienced in CPD training and supervision - both as participant and leader – Rosario believes that the learning experience, be it in training or supervision, should adhere to the cognitive behavioural therapy model – using Structure, Collaborative Empiricism, Guided Discovery...and Creativity! She is also very interested in making best use of technology to assist learning – in therapy and in training.
Rosario holds a Masters degree in Family Therapy & Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a certificate in clinical Supervision. She is an accredited practitioner with both BACP and BABCP.