BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON  1 day / 6 hour workshop This workshop teaches Padesky & Mooney’s 4-step model for identifying, building and strengthening resilience. Their approach integrates knowledge from resilience research and constructive cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methods. Participants learn to search for strengths within six main areas of competence characteristic of resilient individuals and help clients […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA   3 hour workshop Socratic dialogue has been a part of Beck's cognitive therapy since its beginnings in the 1970s. Padesky outlined four steps in the Socratic Dialogue process twenty years ago that now serve as a foundation for learning this approach. This workshop illustrates these four steps with clinical demonstrations and practice […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA  3 hour workshop One of the "new" developments in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the emphasis on strengths at each stage of therapy. In a strengths-based approach, experiential methods often trump analytic approaches because they facilitate expressions of the heart as well as the head. Some of the changes in CBT over […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA   Conversation Hour with Christine Padesky, PhD