2-Day-Depression and Mood Disorder Certification Training-New Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Lasting Recovery – Chris Aiken

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$149.99   $50 – 2-Day-Depression and Mood Disorder Certification Training-New Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Lasting Recovery – Chris Aiken

Your clients with depression, bipolar, and other mood disorders are counting on you. But successful treatment can feel like an impossible task.

Diagnosis is tricky, first-line treatments oftena fail, poor treatment compliance and destructive impulsivity feel like the norm, and recurrence seems the rule and not the exception. And you frequently need to work around medication use that comes with serious side effects, but often fails to offer real benefits. The litany of challenges can leave you feeling exhausted, ineffective, and troubled about the potentially devastating outcomes of treatment failure.

This 2-day recorded training is exactly what you need to help your clients achieve a fuller recovery from depression and bipolar disorder, all without resorting to potentially risky and ineffective medication use.

Join depression and mood disorder expert and author Chris Aiken, MD, and get cutting-edge therapeutic techniques, skills, and practical guidance so you can assess for and effectively treat mood disorders better than ever before.

Watch and discover:

Better still, you’ll complete this recording met the full educational requirements should you choose to pursue the Certified Depression & Mood Disorder Treatment Professional (CDMDTP) credentials through the Institute of Depression Treatment Professionals (visit icdtp.com for full details and certification requirements).

Purchase today and this training will leave you feeling confident that your treatment toolbox has the right combination of clinical interventions so your clients can find relief and live the lives they deserve!

PLUS FREE Materials for Your Clinical Toolbox


  1. Conduct a collaborative assessment that avoids the stigma clients often associate with mood diagnoses.
  2. Differentiate among the affective temperaments of dysthymic, cyclothymic, hyperthymic, and irritable types.
  3. Characterize how psychological trauma affects mood disorders differently.
  4. Distinguish between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.
  5. List the more common cooccurring disorders of the depressed client.
  6. Demonstrate how to create a more effective and practical mood chart for clients to complete as homework.
  7. Examine how to improve behavioral activation results by incorporating the client’s values.
  8. Explain how ruminative thinking drives depression.
  9. Summarize the evidence-base for the Rumination Focused CBT model.
  10. Recommend techniques that mange countertransference to mania and depression.
  11. Consider the therapeutic alliance and ethical issues around including family members in therapy sessions.
  12. Devise an emergency plan with clients and family in readiness for mania, hospitalization and suicidality.
  13. Create an attainable treatment plan that derived from Social Rhythm Therapy.
  14. Summarize the neuroscience of inflammation and insomnia with depression and bipolar disorder.
  15. List the known risks and often contraindicated use of antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
  16. Describe behavioral approaches that address medication adherence.

The Mood Spectrum: Diagnosis in the DSM-5™ Era

Assessment: Practical Tips, Evidence-Based Tools, and Subclinical Features

THERAPY FOR MOOD DISORDERS: FROM EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS TO A PERSONALIZED PLAN

Mood Disorder Must-Haves for Every Treatment Plan

Behavioral Activation: More Than Building a Busy Schedule

Rumination-Focused CBT (RF-CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP)

Social Rhythm Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

An Antidepressant Lifestyle

Medication

Crisis Intervention 

Clinical Considerations

$149.99   $50 – 2-Day-Depression and Mood Disorder Certification Training-New Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Lasting Recovery – Chris Aiken

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