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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada accepts Mainpro+ credits as equivalent (1:1) to MOC credits for Section 1 (i.e., Group Learning). As such, this three-hour, three-credits-per-hour module counts for 9.0 credits in MAINPORT.

Medical CBT is the adaptation of orthodox cognitive behavior therapy for primary care, developed by Greg Dubord, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Medical CBT emphasizes ten-minute techniques useful in normal family medicine visits.

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

Recommended companion courses

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1. Bedroom CBT  Enhancing Things That Start with the Letter S
2. Bedside Manner 2.0  26 Ways to Increase Your Alliance-o-Meter 
3. Breaking Bad Habits  Finally Finding Freedom with CBT
4. CBT Tools  The Science of Persuasion
5. Depression  The Complete CBT Package
6. Dysthymia  CBT's Pathway out of Depression & Suicidality
7. Functional Disorders  Reducing Frustration and Enhancing Outcomes
8. GAD  Quieting the Anxious Mind
9. GriefWork  Growing from Life's Inevitable Losses
10. Happiness Science  Evidence-Based Guidance for the Universal Quest
11. Personality Disorders  Manage Them Before They Manage You 
12. PTSD  From Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth 
13. Social CBT  Tactical Tools to Boost Belonging 
14. SuperDoc  Leveraging CBT Tools to Maximize Resiliency
15. Teen CBT  Guiding Adolescent Growth
16. Ten-Minute CBT  No-Bullshit Techniques for Real Doctors 
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2. xxxxxxxxxxxx.  —xxxxx, MD, FCFP (Waterloo, ON)
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Today’s stressors are objectively significant. Who among us is immune to the compounding influences of social media, artificial intelligence, political polarization, etc.? Our young are particularly afflicted with anxiety: an astounding 23% of boys & 46% of girls in Ontario live with “high levels of distress” (OSDUHS).

But besides drugs (+/- a stern recommendation to relocate to an isolated Hawaiian island), what tools do you utilize to help the anxious find calmness and focus?

CBT’s tools can help. CBT is by far the most evidence-based non-pharmacologic approach to anxiety, and important components can be effortlessly integrated into normal primary care appointments.

Note: Many of the non-pharmacological tools taught in this CBT Canada workshop are very important to the resilience of physicians, and can be passed along to children and other family members—all while fully respecting their boundaries.

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