OVERVIEW

Depression: The complete CBT package (updated for 2025) (2025.11.05; via Zoom) is organized by Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Canada and will be held on Nov 05, 2025.

Description:
Aaron Beck published his groundbreaking book on CBT for depression in 1967, back when many physicians were but a lonely sperm and a lonely egg. As you might expect, the management package has evolved rather profoundly since then. If it's been years since you were last trained in CBT for depression, you're almost certainly not getting the results you and your patients would want to see.

Please join your colleagues to acquire the tools of “CBT for Depression, Version 2025”, an approach that is very different—and very much more effective—than Beck's original package. As always, we assume your appointments are brief, averaging only ten minutes. With that in mind, we teach the tools that are highest in impact and practicality. Topics in the module include:

identifying and managing empathy addictions
antidepressant alexithymia
depressogenic belief identification
therapeutic persuasion and the "physics" of CBT
goalification, scaling, and I/O charts
strategic behavioral antidepressant prescriptions
cultivating learned hopefulness / rational reasons for optimism
combating rumination spirals
breaking through reductionistic stagnation
enhancing motivation with the CUE question
letting go of the past—and unrelentingly focusing on the future
willpower enhancement

The “CBT for Depression, Version 2025” module provides physicians with a clean, contemporary, and comprehensive kit for more effectively managing one of the most common human afflictions.

See also the companion module Dysthymia: CBT's pathway out of chronic depression and suicidality

KEY DATES

05 Nov, 2025

Event Start Date

05 Nov, 2025

Event End Date

ACCREDITATION & CREDITS

Accreditation is three-credits-per-hour by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. The workshop is 3.0 hours in length, for 9.0 Mainpro+ credits. The Royal College accepts Mainpro+ credits as equivalent (1:1) to MOC credits for Section 1 (i.e., Group Learning). As such, this 3.0 hour, three-credits-per-hour module counts for 9.0 credits in MAINPORT.

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) members are eligible to receive up to 9.0 Prescribed credit hours for attendance at CBT Canada's 3.0 hour (/9.0 Mainpro+ credit) workshops due to a reciprocal agreement with the College of Family Physicians (AAFP, 2016).

CBT Canada's three-credits-per-hour Group Learning Program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 369 Mainpro+ credits.

9 Mainpro+

SPEAKERS

Greg Dubord

MDPsychiatry, Behavioral Health

TARGET AUDIENCE

PhysicianNursingStudentsAllied health practitionersFamily PractitionersAllied Health ProfessionalsResident Physician

SPECIALITIES

WellnessPsychologyGeneral PracticePrimary CareFamily MedicineMental Health and LawBehavioral Health

CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY

Should you need to cancel your registration for any reason, you have two options:

Option 1 You may transfer 100% of your tuition money (with no processing fee of any kind) to another workshop up to 24hrs prior to the start of your original workshop. Credits must be used within two years of the date of the original workshop, and only one transfer is permitted.

Option 2 If you prefer, you can opt for a tuition refund (minus a 25% processing fee) up to 30 days before the start of your workshop.