CBPT Tools: Therapeutic Storytelling in Clinical Practice — by Maria A. Geraci
In CBPT the child is no longer a passive subject but the active promoter of his own improvement: narrative builds a shared “story of care”, and therapeutic stories and bibliotherapy turn experience into coping strategies.
What you will be able to do
About this course
Therapeutic storytelling — the clinical use of narratives, metaphors, and story-based activities — is a powerful tool for engaging children in therapy and facilitating insight and change. Stories allow children to explore difficult themes at a safe distance and develop new perspectives.
This course provides structured guidance on how to use storytelling therapeutically within CBPT, including how to construct therapeutic stories aligned with a child's case conceptualization and how to use narrative techniques for cognitive and emotional processing.
Course objectives
- Apply narrative techniques as evidence-based clinical tools in CBPT
- Use storytelling for emotional processing and cognitive restructuring
- Construct therapeutic stories aligned with the child's case conceptualization
- Adapt storytelling interventions to different presentations and age groups
Course requirements
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Clinical Social Workers
- Licensed Professional Counselors
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
- Licensed Mental Health Clinical Nurse Practitioners
The delivery of the certificate of attestation at the conclusion of the course will be tied to the evaluation of participants' requirements. In the absence of the requirements, the course hours will not be certified.
Curriculum · 3h + test
Instructor
Who this course is for
Psychologists and psychotherapists · Psychiatrists · Clinical and licensed independent social workers · Licensed professional counselors · Marriage and family therapists · Mental health clinical nurse practitioners.
A certificate of attendance is issued on completion, tied to the final learning test.