Introduction to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - FV038

• Title: Introduction to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Guaranteed by: Department of Preventive Medicine (15-220)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:6/6, C [HT]
• Capacity: 35
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Monika Ulrichová, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : {Introduction to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy}
• Incompatibility : FG50022
• Interchangeability : FG50022
• Is incompatible with: FG50022
• Is interchangeable with: FG50022

Entry requirements

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (16.09.2022)

Prerequisites - Need to pass in order to enrol the subject:

FGP001/FG10001 - Biophysics and Biostatistics

Aim of the course

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (16.09.2022)

After completing the course, the student should be familiar with the history and theory of CBT and should be able to use the techniques in practice - in coping with emotions, stress, anxiety, psychosomatic problems.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Monika Ulrichová, Ph.D. (12.09.2022)

Credit:

Be present at 75 %. Write the submitted credit work.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Monika Ulrichová, Ph.D. (12.09.2022)

Lecturer:

• PhDr. Mariana Štefančíková, Ph.D., Ph.D.

Lectures:

1. Behavioral medicine and behavioral therapy; History and development of behavioral approach (Pavlov, Skinner); Learning theories (classical and operational conditioning, negative and positive conditioning - rewards/punishments, social learning, over-satiation, shaping, chaining); Observation methods, Coping strategies. Systematic desensitisation.
2. Cognitive psychology and cognitive psychotherapy (Aaron Beck); Cognitive processes: cognitive events (automatic thoughts), cognitive operations (contextual thoughts), cognitive schemes (appraisals, self-evaluations, irrational convictions). Automatic negative thoughts (in anxiety and depression); Cognitive reframing. Rational-emotional therapy (Albert Ellis).

Seminars:

1. Cognitive-behavioral assessment (CBT analysis of a problem): triggers, four modalities (emotions, physiology, cognitions, behavior), long-term and short-term consequents, modifying factors, history of the problem, solution strategies that have been tried until this time. Definition of problem and formulation of aim in CBT.
2. Behavioral experiment – attention focus changing emotions. Coping stress by controlled breathing and relaxation. CBT techniques: imaginations, "stop" technique, falling arrows method. Using metaphors to explain the problem. Behavioral approach in treating anxiety. CBT of pain. Psychosomatic medicine and CBT, somatic reactions and malfunctions.  

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Monika Ulrichová, Ph.D. (12.09.2022)

1. Craske, M.G. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Amer Psychological Assn, 2017
2. Beck, J.S. Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Basics and Beyond. Guilford Press, 2011
3. Gillihan, S.J. Retrain Your Brain - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety. Castillo Media Inc., 2016
4. Wilding, C. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Evidence-based, goal-oriented self-help techniques: a practical CBT primer and self help classic. Hodder & Stoughton, 2015
5. Branch, R.k Willson, R. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies. Wiley, 2010