Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for depression in youth

Boost your skills and toolkit to effectively treat depression in youth, helping your adolescent clients break the cycle and build resilience.

This webinar is designed for professionals aiming to deepen their understanding and application of CBT with adolescents who experience depression. Participants will explore the application of the TFB (Thought-Feeling-Behaviour) cycle to the ‘downward cycle’ of depression, with a focus on strategies and skills to stop and reverse the cycle.

The training covers evidence-based behavioural strategies to help adolescents become more active and social during low mood (behavioural activation). It also introduces cognitive strategies to empower them toward balanced and fair thinking about life events.

Learning objectives:

• Identify common triggers for onset of depression in adolescence.
• Understand and practice key cognitive, emotional and behavioural strategies to draw on when clients describe depression, to support them to break their TFB cycles.
• Examine strategies to help parents/caregivers to support their youth who experience depression, and to avoid unhelpful reinforcement patterns.
• Examine strategies to build resilience and prevent relapse of depression for adolescents.

Register now to gain proven CBT tools for treating depression in youth with confidence.

Please note: This webinar is module 2 of our Certificate in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for children level 2: Clinical applications to specific cases program. However, participants can also register for it as a stand-alone training to enhance their therapeutic skills.

The Canadian Psychological Association recognizes this training for 6 hours of continuing education. These hours are also applicable towards the required 40 hours of formal training in CBT as part of the CACBT certification process.

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