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HMI College of Hypnotherapy

601 – CBT, ACT, and Positive Psychology

Male Professor Teaching

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.

Adjunct Professors

  1. Betsy Bates Freed, PsyD

    Antioch University
    Colorado State University

  2. Randy Kasper, PhD

    California State University San Marcos

  3. Indhushree Rajan, PhD

    Pacifica Graduate Institute

  1. Victoria Stevens, PhD

    Antioch University
    Pacifica Graduate Institute
    University of California Santa Barbara

  2. Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD

    California Institute of Integral Studies
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

Mind-Body Psych Seal

Course Outline

  1. Week 1 (601-1): The Basics of CBT
    Presented By: Betsy Bates Freed, PsyD
  2. Week 2 (601-2): CBT Treatment Examples
    Presented By: Betsy Bates Freed, PsyD
  3. Week 3 (601-3): Case Conceptualization, Assessment, and the Therapeutic Alliance
    Presented By: Victoria Stevens, PhD
  4. Week 4 (601-4): Positive Psychology Core Principles
    Presented By: Betsy Bates Freed, PsyD
  5. Week 5 (601-5): Clinical Intuition, Positivity, and Growth Models
    Presented By: Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD
  6. Week 6 (601-6): Transcendence in Positive Psychology
    Presented By: Randy Kasper, PhD
  7. Week 7 (601-7): ACTs Six Core Processes and Life Map
    Presented By: Randy Kasper, PhD
  8. Week 8 (601-8): Connecting with the Future Self in ACT
    Presented By: Victoria Stevens, PhD

Note: Classes may be presented out of sequence e.g. 601-4 before 601-3.