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Lecture Description

Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) was developed by Aaron Beck and Paul Grant (now Director of the CT-R program at Beck Institute) and colleagues (A. Beck et al, 2020) to treat individuals diagnosed with serious mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The principles of CT-R can also be adapted to make CBT more effective for individuals with acute or chronic or complex conditions (J. Beck, 2021). This presentation will describe both sets of clients, from those who have been hospitalized for decades to those whose conditions, such as depression and anxiety, are much less severe. CT-R requires both a strength-based and a traditional problem-based cognitive conceptualization. Therapists de-emphasize clients’ psychopathology. They encourage clients to engage in highly meaningful experiences, in line with their aspirations and values, and help them draw conclusions that foster a sense of purpose, hope, control, well-being, connection, and empowerment and that increase the strength of their positive beliefs. To build resilience, therapists help clients recognize how they overcome obstacles.

Objectives: Participants will learn to
1. Identify clients’ current and lifetime strengths, positive qualities, and resources
2. Strengthen adaptive beliefs through drawing conclusions about positive experience.
3. Identify and strengthen values and aspirations

Speaker Biography

Judith S. Beck, PhD, is President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (beckinstitute.org), a nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art virtual training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R). The Beck Institute also offers certification in CBT, and online courses on a variety of topics, in addition to conducting research and providing CBT resources around the world. Dr. Beck is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written over 100 articles and chapters, workbooks, pamphlets for professionals and nonprofessionals, and 7 books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, 3r dEdition (2021) and Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work. She has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally on various applications of CBT and is the primary developer of the Beck Institute’s on demand CBT training courses, which have been taken by more than 28,000 health and mental health professionals in over 130 countries. Dr. Beck also provides supervision and treats clients.