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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Workshop

CPT Flyer

Partner program announcement – We are pleased to share this opportunity.

Course Description: The Home Base Program offers an in-person, 2-day workshop in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) held at Home Base, 1 Constitution Wharf, Suite 140, Charlestown, MA. CPT is a 12-session cognitive behavioral treatment for PTSD that can be personalized to include fewer or additional sessions. CPT teaches patients to recognize and challenge dysfunctional cognitions about their traumatic experiences and current beliefs about themselves and others. Through CPT, patients learn about symptoms of PTSD and the connection between trauma-based thoughts and feelings. CPT clinicians engage patients to recognize and challenge unrealistic thoughts, referred to as “stuck points,” throughout the course of treatment.

View the CPT Workshop 9.25.25-9.26.25.pdf flyer for a full overview of the program.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to: 

  1. Explain the diagnostic criteria for PTSD according to the DSM-5.
  2. Discuss current and foundational research that evaluates the empirical support for CPT as an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  3. Describe the cognitive theory underlying CPT.
  4. Identify and describe assimilation, accommodation, and over-accommodation in the context of CPT.
  5. Describe 2 principals of Socratic dialogue.
  6. Demonstrate Socratic dialogue implementation to challenge CPT patients' stuck points.
  7. Select, administer, analyze, and incorporate findings of at least 2 assessment/treatment outcome measures.
  8. Prepare CPT patients to utilize skills to address future goals after completion of CPT.
  9. Identify and describe at least 3 potential barriers to implementing CPT with patients.
  10. Describe and implement 2 strategies to encourage CPT homework compliance.

Primary Goal: After completion of this training, mental health providers will be able to effectively implement CPT. 

Eligibility:

  1. Licensed in MA or license eligible with appropriate supervision
  2. Actively seeing patients with PTSD dx
  3. Actively seeing veterans/interested and likely to see veterans in the near future/operate in a setting where veterans seek care
  4. Able to attend the 2-day training in person at Home Base
  5. Able to attend virtual weekly consultation beginning within 2 weeks of the training for 26 weeks
  6. Have at least 2 patients with PTSD on their caseload with whom they can deliver CPT following the training (do not need to be veterans)

CE Credits: The Home Base Program offers attendees 13 Continuing Education (CE) Credits for participating in the 2-day training. Participants who attend are eligible to receive 13 CE Credits. To obtain CE Credits, attendees must sign in at the start of the course and sign out after its conclusion. Inquiries regarding CE may be directed via email to lrockoff1@mgh.harvard.edu. 

Register: Email Lauren Richards-Donegan, PhD, directly at LRichards3@mgh.harvard.edu to receive an application.