CBT, ACT, and Positive Psychology
Adjunct Professors
- Betsy Bates Freed, PsyD
Antioch University
Colorado State University - Randy Kasper, PhD
California State University San Marcos
- Victoria Stevens, PhD
Antioch University
Pacifica Graduate Institute
University of California Santa Barbara - Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD
California Institute of Integral Studies
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Course Description
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) expands upon the traditional classical and operant conditioning models of understanding about behavior and furthers the exploration into core beliefs and themes in patterned thinking and the impact on behavior. Positive Psychology emerged as an outbranch of operant conditioning, emphasizing the idea that if helplessness can be learned, then positive feelings may be learned as well.
Course Outline
- Week 1: The Basics of CBT
- Week 2: CBT Treatment Examples
- Week 3: Case Conceptualization, Assessment, and the Therapeutic Alliance
- Week 4: Positive Psychology Core Principles
- Week 5: Clinical Intuition, Positivity, and Growth Models
- Week 6: Transcendence in Positive Psychology
- Week 7: ACTs Six Core Processes and Life Map
- Week 8: Connecting with the Future Self in ACT
