Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Helping Depressed People

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Helping Depressed People

'What is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and what role does it have, in helping depressed older people?' The notion of learned helplessness is explored; if we can learn helplessness, we can learn optimism.  Acknowledging that psychiatric nurses have used CBT techniques in their practice for many years without calling the interventions CBT, this session states there are no exclusive rights for any profession in utilising this valuable approach. All nurses can use CBT as a psychotherapeutic tool.

The main concepts explored in this session are:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Learned helplessness
• Teaching optimism

Patricia Awty is a nurse consultant and educator who has extensive hospital and university experience as a clinician, teacher and lecturer. She is a qualified general and psychiatric nurse who has a master of health science. Pat has a special interest in the psychodynamics of therapeutic relationships and care and is well known as an informed and inspiring nurse teacher. Pat regularly conducts teaching sessions throughout Australia which are invariably highly evaluated.

Speaker name: Pat Awty
Recorded: 23 March 2010
Listening time: 14 Mins
Conference: Depression and the Elderly
Session in Conference: Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
State: Melbourne, Australia

Professional Reviews:

Very worthwhile listening to and extremely helpful for clinical practice interventions.