Learn how to apply Rational Living Therapy / Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to personality disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, as well as advanced cognitive modification techniques, advanced underlying assumption modification techniques, and group therapy.
Rational Living Therapy
Level-Two Certification
Home Study Program
** Continuing Education: 18 Contact Hours are Available for
This Home Study Program for an Additional Fee. ***
Please see the bottom of this page for details.
Presenter: Aldo R. Pucci, MA, DCBT
President, National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists
Prerequisite: Rational Living Therapy Level-One Certification Program
Recorded Live from an RLT Level-Two Seminar!
The audio presentation portion is provided on a USB thumb drive.
A Complete 107-Page Manual and an Exam Included!
The Rational Living Therapy Level-Two Certification Home Study Program covers:
Personality Disorders
Basic Premises of RLT Treatment of Personality Disorders
- How to Engage the Client Depending on His / Her Personality Charicterisitics
- How to Encourage Collaboration
- The Common Underlying Assumptions Associated with the various Personality Disorders
- Techniques for Pattern Analysis
- Techniques for Pattern Change
- Techniques that encourage Pattern Maintenance
Personality Disorders Discussed in-depth include: Dependent, Avoidant, Borderline, Paranoid, Passive-Aggressive, Antisocial, Histrionic, Obsessive-Compulsive, Narcissistic, Schizoid, and Schizotypal.
Advanced "Underlying Assumptions (Core Beliefs or Schemas)" Therapy
- Various Methods to uncover underlying assumptions, including the "downward" or vertical arrow technique
- Underlying Belief Structual Qualities
- Continuum of Underlying Belief Change
- Successive Approximation of Thought Acquisitiontm Technique (SATA)
Advanced Cognitive Modification Skills
- Soft Countering Techniques
- Hard Countering Techniques
- Objective countering techniques
Application to Mood / Anxiety Disorders
- How to Apply Rational Living Therapy to problems of Depression and Anxiety, including "Major Depression," "Dysthymia," "Panic Disorder," "Agoraphobia," "Specific Phobias," and "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder."
Group Therapy
- Learn how to apply Rational Living Therapy in Group Settings
Continuing Education Information
For
an additional $40 fee paid to R. Cassidy Seminars, you can obtain 18
Continuing Education contact hours upon successful completion of the
online post-test. The information to access the test is provided with
the course materials.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants
must have paid course fee, submitted signed verification statement,
completed evaluation, and completed post-test with passing grade of 75%
in order to receive a certificate. Failure to complete and submit these
materials will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No
exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.
Psychologists
R.
Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association
(APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy
Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (18) CE hours.
Psychoanalysts
NY:
R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education
Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved
provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005.
(18) clock hours.
Social Workers
CA: The Board of Behavioral
Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA for its licensees. See
those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NY: R. Cassidy
Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's
State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of
continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is
approved for 18 contact hours self-study.
OH: Provider approved by
the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist
Board for (18) clock hours, #RCST110701
Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
CA:
The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to
APA for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and
Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically
listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA
approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals,
such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio
Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. (18) hours.
NY-LMHCs:
R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education
Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved
provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.
#MHC-0015. (18) contact hours.
NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is
recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of
Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing
education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. (18)
contact hours.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social
Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (18) clock hours,
#RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of
Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. (18) CE Hours. Provider
#151
Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is
recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of
Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing
education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0005. (18) contact
hours
Chemical Dependency Counselors
CA Provider approved by
CCAPP; CCAPP Provider #4N-00-434-0220 for (18) CEHs. CCAPP is an
IC&RC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states.
TX:
Provider approved by the TCBAP Standards Committee, Provider No.
1749-06, (18) hours general and/or (18) hours (specific specialization),
Expires 3/31/2019. Complaints about provider or workshop content may
be directed to the TCBAP Standards Committee, 1005 Congress Avenue, Ste.
460, Austin, Texas 78701, Fax Number (512) 476-7297..
Dentists
CA:
R. Cassidy Seminars is a provider approved by the Dental Board of
California as a registered provider of continuing education. RP# 4874.
(18) CE Hours. Some state dental boards are reciprocal. Check with your
licensing board to be sure.
Nurses
CA: Provider approved by the
CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12224, for (18) contact
hours. Many state nursing boards are reciprocal with other states. Check
with your licensing board to be sure.
Educators
TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with the Texas Education Agency CPE# 501456. This course is (18) CE Hours.
This course is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Disability
Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30
days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without
adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change
regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most
recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course
meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your
board directly to obtain a ruling.
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