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Medically unexplained symptoms and health anxiety
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
One day workshop
Patients with health anxiety are often frequent attenders in primary care and many other health services but can be difficult to manage and treat effectively. The difficulty posed by managing these complex cases often represents a major source of stress for health professionals. There is growing evidence that health anxiety and medically unexplained symptoms can be effectively treated with CBT.
KEY FEATURES
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
By attending this one-day workshop, participants will:
- Learn about the CBT approach to health anxiety and medically unexplained symptoms and how health professionals may be involved in its development
- Discover new ways to cope with the stress and anxiety (‘heartsink’) that can arise within health professionals when faced by challenging patients
- Improve relationships with health anxious or frequently attending patients
- Learn how to engage patients in the CBT approach
- Encourage patients to adopt positive coping strategies to accept and manage their unpleasant physical symptoms
- Encourage patients to reduce their focus on health issues and take values-based actions that improve wellbeing and quality of life
This introductory 10 Minute CBT workshop is suitable for a wide range of health professionals and other practitioners who work with people experiencing medically unexplained symptoms, functional disorders, experience somatic symptoms and anxiety about their health. This includes GPs, nurses and nurse practitioners, hospital specialists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists.
The training is suitable for people with little or no background or training in CBT, as well as those with more experience of CBT who wish to learn how to adapt CBT training to the 10 Minute setting.
09:00 Registration
09:30 Introduction to MUS, health anxiety and ‘heartsink’
10:00 Case example: non-organic chest pain
10:30 CBT approach to health anxiety
11:00 Break
11:30 DVD example
12:00 Irritable bowel syndrome
12:30 CBT communication skills for health anxiety
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Practical case examples: Using a CBT approach in health anxious patients
15:15 Break
15:45 Managing distressing symptoms such as chronic fatigue and pain
16:15 Further CBT strategies for making change
17:00 Course ends
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