Course Overview:

Deliberate Practice AI Hub Skill 10: Making the Patient Accountable: Issuing The Gentle Ultimatum. In this exercise, you'll put together a number of skills to help you make the patient accountable for the work necessary to overcome their challenges. This complex skill is used after you've addressed Outcome Resistance.

Skills 9 and 10 are dedicated to learning and practicing the challenging skill of issuing a gentle ultimatum to our patients while also instilling hope. In Skill 9, you've practiced Dangling The Carrot. 

In Skill 10 here, you'll have the opportunity to put all of the steps of the Gentle Ultimatum together: Dangling The Carrot, Issuing The Ultimatum, and Sitting With Open Hands.

First you’ll be introduced to the principles of deliberate practice in therapy training, then you'll learn about Process Resistance, the Gentle Ultimatum, and Sitting with Open Hands. The heart of the course is the opportunity to practice and receive feedback in a simulated environment with multiple real world scenarios. At the end of the course, you will be given a post-test to ensure that you have learned the skills. Passing this test is required to receive CE credit.

This series of sequential skills for effective therapy is based on the TEAM-CBT model created by Dr. David Burns and on the book Deliberate Practice of TEAM-CBT authored by Maor Katz, MD and Mike Christensen.  We recommend following the skills in consecutive order.

Some basics in knowledge of TEAM CBT is required to participate in the exercises. If you are not yet level 1 certified, please take the Crash Course in Core Skills for Effective Therapy before beginning any of these exercises. You can find the Crash Course in your dashboard.

This is a 1.5 hour, AI practice and feedback based home study course. Eligible license types may earn 1.5 CEs.

By: Maor Katz, MD, Feeling Good Institute
Offers 1.5 CE Hours
Therapist level: beginner to intermediate

Learning Objectives:
1) Hold my patients accountable by explaining the work that is required in order to make improvements in therapy

2) Describe the concept of sitting with open hands

Home Study Continuing Education Accreditation
The Feeling Good Institute (FGI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Feeling Good Institute, #1442, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/30/2024-05/30/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 clinical continuing education credits. Feeling Good Institute Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0175. Feeling Good Institute, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0678.