Course Description

This DVD series will help busy health professionals learn effective cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) strategies to use in a typical primary care consultation. Each brief clip highlights key skills for working with common mental health problems.

Key features include:
• Supporting behaviour change in a mother with depression
• Understanding and overcoming panic attacks
• Managing stress in the workplace
• Managing multiple worries in a patient with generalised anxiety disorder
• Assessment and initial management of insomnia

GP and CBT Specialist

Dr Lee David

I am a GP and cognitive-behavioural therapy specialist based in the UK.  I am the founder and director of 10 Minute CBT.  We provide face to face and online education for GPs and other health professionals in the use of evidence-based, realistic and effective brief CBT concepts and skills in routine consultations. I am author of the textbook, Using CBT in General Practice: The 10 Minute CBT Handbook (Scion Publishing, 2013) and I am in the process of writing a new book on understanding and managing anxiety disorders in primary care.Qualifications:MB BSBSc (Social Psychology as applied to health)MRCGP (distinction)MA (cognitive-behavioural therapy)PG Cert (medical education)10 Minute CBT is used in a wide variety of settings including primary care mental health, medication and chronic disease management and for cancer and palliative care.  Dr David has a particular interest in promoting patient self-management for both physical and emotional problems, as well as in supporting health professionals to develop emotional resilience and wellbeing at work in one-to-one sessions via Skype.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Depression

    • Depression - Part 1

    • Depression - Part 2
  • 3

    Panic Attacks

    • Panic - Part 1

    • Panic - Part 2
  • 4

    Generalised Anxiety Disorder

    • Generalised Anxiety Disorder
  • 5

    Insomnia

    • Insomnia
  • 6

    Work stress

    • Work stress