Course Overview:
On Demand Deliberate Practice Skill 11: Capturing and Refining Negative Thoughts, serves as a foundational skill for cognitive therapy. It is the 11th skill in a series of sequential skills for effective therapy 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.  Each skill in the hub offers an opportunity to practice in a simulated therapy environment with multiple scenarios using natural speech, AI based feedback, and ability to try again or move to the next scenario. Each skill in the hub is structured as a separate on-demand CE Course, we recommend following the skills in consecutive order. 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.

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.

Capturing and refining negative thoughts is a foundational skill in cognitive therapy. You'll be able to use the negative thoughts you capture using this skill as the starting spot to countless CBT techniques. 

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

Course Overview
First you’ll be introduced to the principles of deliberate practice in therapy training, then you'll learn about the purpose and techniques for capturing and refining negative thoughts in CBT. 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.

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

Learning Objectives:
1) Define what are “negative thoughts”

2) Describe the purpose of capturing negative thoughts in CBT

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.