NECBT's Behavioral Training for Parents and Professionals

NECBT's Behavioral Training brings families together.

NECBT's Behavioral Training for Parents and Professionals class will be starting on Thursday July 10^th! As mentioned in last week’s entry, NECBT’s Behavioral Training is part of the three-tiered system of our Children and Adolescent Programming here at NECBT. All parents of children age 17 and younger are required to attend this 10-week seminar to learn how to help reinforce the I-CBT treatment that children are learning in individual sessions. However, Behavioral Training is a great learning opportunity for parents of patients of all ages. 

Behavioral Training is specifically designed for parents, teachers, and administrators looking to learn strategies to help improve children’s behavior in home, school, and social environments.

Children and Adolescent Programs at NECBT

I-CBT is an effective form of treatment for children and families.

Treating children can be challenging. In fact, a child’s brain is not fully developed until his or her mid-twenties. At New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy our philosophy for treating children and adolescents is to highly involve the parents and/or guardians. We have had a lot of success with this approach to children’s therapy. Parents are taught the same I-CBT used in individual session as well as how to use evidence based reinforcement techniques to encourage preferable behaviors.  Parents are then better equipped to handle their child’s behaviors outside the office setting. 

For more about I-CBT, a hybrid of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotional Intelligence developed by American Psychotherapist Thomas A. Cordier, please see last week’s post here.

NECBT's Interpersonal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

NECBT's I-CBT can help patients to  improve relationships.

In last week's post we discussed the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as how it differs from what we might usually think of when hear the word  "therapy." This week, we are taking a look at the type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that we utilize at New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Interpersonal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or I-CBT.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Over the next few weeks here at the NECBT Blog, we will be exploring and explaining the treatment that we provide in our practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy itself is quickly becoming one of the most recommended types of therapy available, and yet still many people are unsure of what exactly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is.

Our first installment of this series explores the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

As always, for more information, visit our website at  www.necbt.com.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, more commonly referred to as CBT, differs from the “talk” therapy that most of us have become familiar with through mainstream television shows, such as The Sopranos and Frasier. Mainstream representations of therapy have left many with the idea that all therapy usually involves a patient lying on a couch and talking while a psychiatrist listens, paraphrases, and offers advice. This is not always the case.