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Rational Living Therapy Level-One Certification Webinar (Three-Day Training)
Dates: March 13, 2025 (Day One)
March 20, 2025 (Day Two)
March 27, 2025 (Day Three)
Time: 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Eastern Time
Cost: $150
Presenter: Dr. Aldo R. Pucci
To Register, please visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3935929914691706717
Continuing Education: 18 Contact Hours are Available for this webinar an additional $40 fee. *** Please see the bottom of this page for details.
Target audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Dentists
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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom Meeting to allow for more and easier interaction.
About This Webinar
Our Level-One Certification Seminar in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Rational Living Therapy) is a three-day training that is very comprehensive. Attendees learn the start-to-finish systematic approach, as well as how to deal with difficult and challenging clients who resist therapy, and an comprehensive introduction to applying it to various problems (depression,anxiety, etc…).
The systematic approach presented in this training is so straightforward and practical that attendees can begin implementing it immediately. It takes the best of the cognitive-behavioral approaches Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Rational Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Schema Therapy, as well as original approaches and techniques and delivers it in a
very systematic manner.
To be certified, a person must possess at least a Masters degree (or be a graduate student) in a mental health profession. For those who do not meet that criterion, a paraprofessional certification can be granted.
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What You Will Learn
Day One
10:30 am – 12:30 am
1. The Theory of Rational Living Therapy
a. How thoughts are acquired and how to utilize thought acquisition theory to develop psychotherapeutic techniques.
b. Cause of normal and abnormal emotional and behavioral response.
c. Myths and misconceptions of cognitive-behavioral therapy
d. Psychotherapeutic characteristics of Rational Living Therapy
a. How thoughts are acquired and how to utilize thought acquisition theory to develop psychotherapeutic techniques.
b. Cause of normal and abnormal emotional and behavioral response.
c. Myths and misconceptions of cognitive-behavioral therapy
d. Psychotherapeutic characteristics of Rational Living Therapy
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Break
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
2. Rational Living Therapy Assessment Techniques
a. Differentiating learned vs. not-learned emotional / behavioral problems
b. Determining core beliefs utilizes the vertical arrow technique
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
3. Conversational Persuasion Techniques
a. How to indirectly suggest that the client will succeed and indirectly encourage a desired outcome.
b. A variety of conversational persuasive techniques will be presented, including: Truisms, embedded commands, illusion of choice, positive label bind, Non-sequitur double bind, time bind, apposition of opposites
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Break
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
4. ABC’s of Emotions and Reflexive Thoughts
a. Attendees will learn the RLT definition of emotions and how to teach clients the cause of their emotional / behavioral problems.
b. How to teach clients how to assess reflex or automatic thoughts
c. How to encourage an internal locus of control
Day Two
10:30 am – 12:30 am
5. Rational Questions
a. The Three Rational Questions and how to teach them to clients so that they can determine for themselves whether or not their thoughts / behaviors are rational for them.
6. Thought Disputing Techniques
a. How to dispute thoughts with clients.
b. Techniques presented: didactic, Socratic, indirect, physical, self-disclosure
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Break
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
7. Common Mental Mistakes
a. The 25 Common Mental Mistakes, including:
All or none thinking, overgeneralization, discounting the positive, mental filter, irrational should statements, confusing
needing with wanting, confusing possibility with probability, relying vs. depending, irrational definitions
b. How to teach the common mental mistakes to clients
8. The Stages of Emotional Re-education
a. How to teach the stages of emotional re-education to clients
b. Excellent examples of how to demonstrate the experience of cognitive-emotive dissonance
c. How to emphasize to clients the importance of practicing their new thoughts.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
9. Rational Action Planner
a. How to teach clients how to complete a Rational Action Planner
10. Rational Hypnotherapy
a. Attendees will learn what hypnotherapy is and why it is utilized in Rational Living Therapy
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Break
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
11. Practicing Techniques
a. How to teach clients various thought and behavior practicing
techniques, including Simple script rehearsal, rational
visualization, self-hypnosis, systematic desensitization
12. Therapy Termination
a. Attendees will learn how to determine when it is appropriate to end therapy.
Day Three
10:30 am – 12:30 am
13. Resistance
a. How to identify and help clients overcome over twenty causes of resistance in therapy, including:
Fear of discomfort, fear of disclosure / shame, symptom stress,
suppression, reactance / rebelliousness, severe disturbance,
secondary gain, hopelessness, guilt / shame, cognitive-emotive
dissonance
b. How to help clients identify their own reasons for resistance
c. How to engage poorly motivated clients with excellent Rational Living
Therapy goal producing strategies
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Break
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
14. Persuasive Techniques
a. How to help clients to at least consider new thoughts utilizing
various persuasive techniques, including:
Creating a mind-set, changing physiology, providing a two-sided argument, changing parameters of behavior
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
15. Application of Rational Living Therapy
a. Attendees will develop an introductory understanding of the mental
mistakes associated with various disorders / problems, and how
to overcome those mental mistakes.
b. Disorders covered include:
Depression, anxiety, anger, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, guilt, low self-esteem, compulsive behavior, drug / alcohol abuse.
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Break
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
16. Advanced Rational Living Therapy Techniques
a. Attendees will learn advanced behavioral techniques utilized in RLT,
including:
Contingent reinforcement, reinforcement of incompatible behavior, classical conditioning, rational reminders, positive /negative imagery, tour-through-the-future technique
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Training Objectives:
- Explain the characteristics of Rational Living Therapy
- Summarize the development of Rational Living Therapy
- Explain the ABCs of Emotions
- Explain Reflexive Thoughts
- Describe the Three Rational Questions
- Create new rational replacement thoughts
- Demonstrate the Importance of Practice
- Explain the process of completing a Rational Action Planner
- Explain the 26 cognitive distortions / mental mistakes
- Determine successful termination and long-term results
- Evaluate and solve the client’s reasons for displaying therapeutic resistance
- Apply persuasive techniques
- Apply the systematic approach to problem areas
- Demonstrate behavioral techniques for behavioral change
Cancellation can be made at any time until the commencement of the webinar. Please direct any questions, concerns, requests for refunds, or cancellations to nacbt@nacbt.org.
Information concerning how you can obtain your CE certificate will be emailed to you at the conclusion of the webinar.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
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About the Presenter
Dr. ALDO R. PUCCI, is President of the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists. Dr. Pucci was trained in Rational Behavior Therapy by its originator, internationally acclaimed psychiatrist Maxie C. Maultsby, Jr., MD. Dr. Pucci then went on to develop his own form of CBT known as “Rational Living Therapy.” He has trained thousands of mental health clinicians and has presented his workshops and certification seminars on Rational Living Therapy and Rational Hypnotherapy throughout the United States. Dr. Pucci’s seminars receive rave reviews. He holds the titles of Diplomate in Psychotherapy (The International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy), Diplomate in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (NACBT), Certified Medical Hypnotherapist (Institute of Medical Hypnosis), and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (National Board for Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Anesthesiology). Dr. Pucci is the author of many articles and two books, The Client’s Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Feel the Way You Want to Feel…No Matter What!
Continuing Education Information
Rational Living Therapy Level-One Certification Webinar, #6162, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Credits.Education as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [dates]. Social workers completing this course receive 18 general continuing education credits.
A fee of $40 will be assessed by Credits.Education: https://credits.education/Order.aspx?selectedId=16&offerGuid=76923e01-ceab-427a-b19a-ff3ff554c598 .
Registration Deadline: March 12, 2025
Special Needs – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates available after satisfactory course completion at https://credits.education.
This course is presented in a webinar meeting format. The attendees have the ability to ask questions and answer questions throughout the program.
To Register, please visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3935929914691706717
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