Key ideas

It is widely recognised that cognitive biases perpetuate psychological distress by maintaining negative perceptions of our relationships and the world around us. These Unhelpful Thinking Styles (UTS) are a key part of the mechanics of depression, anxiety, anger and many other psychological disorders. But how can we help clients identify these and break the vicious circles they maintain? And how can we as therapists and counsellors ensure that we ourselves are not falling victim to TUTS - Therapist Unhelpful Thinking Styles? Examples of unhelpful thinking styles include:

• All or nothing thinking
• Emotional reasoning
• Personalization
• Catastrophising & minimization
• Jumping to conclusions
• Disqualifying the positive

1. How can we help clients restructure their UTS?
2. What clinical tools are available to measure UTS? How can we get the most out of them in practice?
3. What are the ways in which therapists display UTS and is it an issue?

What have previous delegates said about similar workshops?

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Who is leading this webinar?

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.