Breakup CBT Cure

Breakup CBT Cure

Language: English

Instructors: Dr Sylvia Buet

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Course Curriculum

INTRODUCTION TO THE BREAKUP CURE
How to work with this program to achieve results (15:00)
Notes Introduction Breakup CBT Cure (28 pages)
Structure and Contents of the Breakup Cure
Quiz. Can you benefit from The Breakup CBT Cure?
Understanding the basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (16:00)
Notes Presentation CBT (2 pages)
Pre-Program Assessment. What modules do I have to complete?
Pre-Program Assessment. The Breakup Adjustment Scale
Pre-Program Assessment. Your recovery indicators
Pre-Program Assessment. Are you presenting symptoms of depression?
Pre-Program Assessment. Can you forget that your ex exists?
Pre-Program Assessment. Can you cope with the pain of a breakup?
Pre-Program Assessment. How much do you dwell on your breakup?
Pre-Program Assessment. Are you bothered by intrusions about your ex?
Notes: Glossary of terms (5 pages)
MODULE 1: SET YOURSELF FREE
Session 1: Breaking the 007 Bond
First steps to breaking the bond with your ex (9:00)
The price to pay for not breaking the attachment to your ex (6:00)
Your ex: A friend with "no benefits" (10:00)
BONUS: CHECKLIST: FRIEND OR FOE?
Homework. Let's start breaking the emotional bond with your ex
Read these blog posts to help you decide whether to be friends with you ex
Notes Slides Session 1 (14 pages)
Session 2: Cutting your love into pieces
The 8 legs of your attachment (7:00)
Quiz. How many of those legs do you still have to "dissect" to start falling out of love?
Manifestations of being disaffected (3:00)
Quiz. Do You Know If You Have Emotionally Disengaged From Your Ex?
5 behavioural manifestations of falling out of love (8:00)
Quiz. Do You Know If You Have Behaviourally Disengaged From Your Ex?
Homework. Develop An Action Plan To Address The 10 Problematic Areas of Covered In This Section
Download Daily record in Excel: How much do I miss my ex?
Download Daily record in PDF: How much do I miss my ex? (1 pages)
Notes Slides Session 2 (12 pages)
Session 3: Falling out of love ... "on purpose"
5 Cognitive methods for falling out of love (6:00)
Quick Exercise. Find 10 statements counterbalancing the positive view you may have of your ex
Changing positive memories/feelings about your exe and desire for closeness
Quick Exercise. Six Negative Memories About The Relationship
Quick Exercise. Three pleasurable activities to counteract upsetting memories
Quick Exercise. Three Reasons Why You Should Not Desire To Be In Contact With Your Ex
Quick Exercise. Three Reasons Why You Should Not Desire A Reconciliation With Your Ex
Quick Exercise. Self-Talk: Reasons Why You Should Curb Your Enthusiasm About Being In Touch With Your Ex In 5 Lines
Identify any negative views you hold about yourself (4:00)
Quick Exercise. Negative Labels Impacting Your Self-Esteem
Quick Exercise. What I Can Bring Into A Relationship
8 Behavioural methods for falling out of love (7:00)
Homework. Develop A Behavioural Plan To Decrease The Aspects Of Disengagement You Still Need To Improve.
Final Conclusions about Module 1 (2:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 1
Notes Session 3 (13 pages)
BONUS: 50-MINUTE MASTERCLASS "THE 8 PROVEN WAYS TO GET OVER A BREAKUP" (50:00)
MODULE 2: KEEP THE DISTANCE
Session 4: Identifying your Proximity Seeking Strategies
Cognitive and behavioural proximity seeking strategies (11:00)
Quiz: What Is Your Motivation Behind The Use Of Proximity Seeking Strategies?
Quiz: How Many Behavioural Proximity Seeking Strategies Do You Use?
The price to pay for using proximity seeking strategies (9:00)
Quiz: Do You Use Any Of These Two Cognitive Proximity Seeking Strategies?
Quiz: In What Way Your Proximity Seeking Strategies Have Affected You?
Homework Session 4. Your beliefs underlying the need to use proximity seeking strategies
Notes Session 4 (12 pages)
Session 5: Keeping in contact with your ex
What are Good reasons to be in contact with your ex? (7:00)
Quick Exercise. Do You Have A Good Reason To Keep In Contact?
Quiz. In What Ways Does Keeping Contact With Your Ex Affect You?
Maladaptive contact with your ex (3:00)
Quiz homework: What Beliefs Do You Hold About Keeping Contact If You Have Concluded That Your Level Of Contact Is Maladaptive?
Resources
Notes Session 5 (9 pages)
Session 6. Controlling Unnecessary desires to feel close to your ex
16 Behavioural Techniques To Control Your Desire For Closeness (10:00)
5 Cognitive Techniques To Control Your Desire For Closeness (5:00)
Quiz Homework. Cognitive Behavioural techniques to eliminate proximity seeking strategies
25 What ifs! (22:00)
Final conclusions about Module 2 (3:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 2
Notes Session 6 (28 pages)
BONUS: WORKBOOK THE LOVE SEARCH ENGINE (69 pages)
EBook. Give The Boot To Your Loneliness (63 pages)
MODULE 3: CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
Session 7. Are you sure you want to reconcile?
Some statistical facts about reconciliation (6:00)
Quiz: What’s The “Overall” Likelihood Of Having A Successful Reconciliation 1 Year After A Breakup?
Is Your Expectation of Reconciliation Realistic? (6:00)
Quick Exercise: What Are The Signs That Your Ex Does Or Doesn’t Want A Reconciliation?
Article Blog: 14 Signs Your Ex is Over You and Doesn’t Want You Back
Quiz Homework. How realistic is your expectation of reconciliation?
Notes Session 7 (8 pages)
Session 8. How is the desire for reconciliation maintained over time?
Maladaptive Beliefs mantaining your desire for reconciliation (9:00)
Quiz Homework Session 8. Identify your maladaptive beliefs about desiring a reconciliation
Quiz . Mixed Signals Scale
Notes Session 8 (6 pages)
Session 9. Managing your desire for reconciliation
Cognitive Technique 1 to 5 to manage your desire for reconciliation. (8:00)
Cognitive Technique 6 and 7 (9:00)
Cognitive techniques 8 to 10 (4:00)
Cognitive techniques 11 to 15 (7:00)
7 Response Prevention methods to stop the desire for reconciliation (8:00)
4 behavioural methods to reduce your desire to reconcile (6:00)
Quick Exercise: A Sentence That Captures The Worst That You Ex Told You As The Reason/s To End The Relationship
Quiz Homework. Cognitive Behavioural Techniques to Stop Desiring a Reconciliation
Daily Record Homework Session 9 (1 pages)
Final conclusions about Module 3 (3:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 3
Notes Session 9 (18 pages)
BONUS: WORKBOOK UN-JEALOUS YOURSELF (60 pages)
BONUS: HOW TO COPE WITH ANXIETY AND WORRY WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
PROBLEMS WITH OR WITHOUT SOLUTION
When worries are unsolvable
The process to disect a worry into sections
Exercise. Transform these original worries into questions using a “What if question” format
Download exercise from the previous section
PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES - WHAT THEY ARE AND WHEN THEY MAY NOT WORK
Video: Problem-Solving Strategies (25:00)
What are problem-solving strategies?
When are Problem-Solving Strategies not useful?
THE 7-STEP PROCESS OF PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
Seven steps for effective problem-solving after a breakup
Example: Problem solving strategy for my breakup
My breakup example (8 pages)
RESOLVE YOUR PROBLEM
Exercise: Problem-Solving strategies
Download the form "Problem Solving Strategies" (7 pages)
CONCLUSION
Final conclusions about Problem-Solving Strategies
MODULE FOUR: RUNNING ON THE SPOT!
Session 10: Identifying your avoidance strategies
Types of avoidance (9:00)
Who's more likely to engage in avoidance and safety behaviours? (6:00)
Quiz: What Do You Avoid?
Quick Exercise. My Safety Behaviours
Quiz Homework. What Beliefs Do You Hold About The Need To Use Avoidance?
Notes Session 10 (7 pages)
Session 11: Adaotive vs maladaptive avoidance
Are there good reasons to engage in behavioural avoidance? (8:00)
Quiz. Do You Have Good Reasons To Engage In Behavioural Avoidance? (Healthy Avoidance)
What’s the price of using Avoidance? (4:00)
Why is cognitive avoidance maladaptive? (4:00)
Homework. What Evidence Do You Have That Your Avoidance Is Either Adaptive Or Maladaptive?
Notes Session 11 (14 pages)
Session 12: Dealing with cognitive and behavioural avoidance
Treatment for avoidance: Exposure (11:00)
4 rules of exposure (imaginal or in vivo) (6:00)
How can you create a narrative for imaginal exposure? (4:00)
What to do once the narrative is done? (4:00)
Quick Exercise. Are You Afraid Of Exposure? (Optional Exercise)
What a narrative looks like! (5:00)
Quiz. Which Narrative Is Not Working?
What can go wrong with exposure? (5:00)
Troubleshooting your imaginal exposure
Homework 1. My Narrative
Homework 2. Hierarchy of fears
Exposure Record to complete Homework 2 (1 pages)
Final conclusions about Module 4 (2:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 4
Notes Session 12 (20 pages)
MID-PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
What modules do I still have to complete?
The Breakup Adjustment Scale
Your recovery indicators
Are you presenting symptoms of depression?
Can you forget that your ex exists?
Can you cope with the pain of a breakup?
How much do you dwell on your breakup?
Are you bothered by intrusions about your ex?
BONUS: THE DATING TREASURE BOX
Resource Pack: The Dating Treasure Box (66 pages)
MODULE FIVE: REGRETTING THE PAST!
Session 13: Guilt, your unfriendly whip
How guilt develops (9:00)
Other perceptions magnifying the sense of guilt (4:00)
Quiz. Do You Blame Yourself For the Breakup?
It’s my fault, isn’t it? Understanding guilt and self-blame cognitions (6:00)
Homework. Thought Record to identify your guilt-related triggers
Notes Session 13 (9 pages)
Session 14: The marks of the whip
Who is more likely to get stuck in guilt? (5:00)
Excuse me…how much does a bag of guilt cost? (3:00)
Quick Exercise. List Your Regrets
5 behavioural techniques to manage maladaptive guilt (7:00)
Homework. A Plan To Stop Any Maladaptive Behaviour Maintaining Your Guilt
Notes Session 14 (12 pages)
Session 15: Put your guilt into reverse gear!
Cognitive techniques to reduce your sense of guilt, self-blame, and regret rumination (Techniques 1 to 5) (9:00)
Homework. Practise your human rights
Cognitive techniques to reduce your sense of guilt, self-blame, and regret rumination (Techniques 6 to 11) (7:00)
Quick Exercise. 10 Arguments So As Not To Feel Guilty
Quick Exercise. Ruminating About My Regrets Will Help Me….
Cognitive techniques to reduce your sense of guilt, self-blame, and regret rumination (Techniques 12 to 17) (9:00)
Download Responsibility pie in Excel (File and Make A Copy)
Responsibility pie in PDF (1 pages)
Quick Exercise. Different Decisions I'll Make In The Future To Learn From This Breakup
Quick Exercise. Changing Your Regrets Into Preferences
Cognitive techniques to reduce your sense of guilt, self-blame, and regret rumination (Techniques 18 to 21) (6:00)
Quick Exercise. What I didn't know then ...
Quick Exercise. What Alternatives Did I Have and What Would've The Consequences Been Of Such Alternatives?
Cognitive techniques to reduce your sense of guilt, self-blame, and regret rumination (Techniques 22 to 24) (8:00)
Quick Exercise. Changing Your Labels Into Decisions or Behaviours
Homework 1. Choose 10 Cognitive techniques and apply them to the main regret you have
Homework 2. Challenging belief: "I have let my children down"
Homework 3. Challenging belief: "I've caused my ex terrible pain and he/she won't be able to cope"
Homework 4. Challenging belief "I am a bad person for leaving my partner"
Final conclusions about Module 5 (4:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 5
Notes Session 15 (16 pages)
BONUS: BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION FOR DEPRESSION
Manage your symptoms of depression with Behavioral Activation (40 pages)
BONUS: THE NEW YOU, VERSION 2
Workbook. The New You, Version 2 (145 pages)
MODULE SIX: NAVIGATING THROUGH AN UNFAIR WORLD
Session 16: Getting to know your enemy
Differentiating between anger feeling, anger expression, and anger rumination (10:00)
Who or what is making you angry? (14:00)
When it’s more likely to develop anger (2:00)
Themes associated with anger (6:00)
Homework. Find the anger theme
Notes Session 16 (14 pages)
Session 17: The invisible face of anger
Anger rumination is not harmless (5:00)
Quiz. Beliefs maintaining anger rumination
Beliefs maintaining anger feelings (15:00)
Quick Exercise. Identify Your Demands (Should's)
Homework. Identify Your Anger-inducing Beliefs For 3 Or More Anger-provoking Situations
Notes Session 17 (7 pages)
Session 18: Quieting the mind that won't shut up
17 techniques to reframe anger-inducing beliefs (techniques 1 and 2) (5:00)
17 techniques to reframe anger-inducing beliefs (techniques 3 to 7) (5:00)
17 techniques to reframe anger-inducing beliefs (techniques 8 to 10) (8:00)
17 techniques to reframe anger-inducing beliefs (techniques 11 to 15) (9:00)
Example of a dysfunctional and healthy self-talk
17 techniques to reframe anger-inducing beliefs (techniques 16 and 17) (10:00)
Examples of challenging anger-inducing beliefs and anger rumination
Homework. Challenge At Least 3 Beliefs Maintaining Anger Rumination
Final conclusions about Module 6 (3:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 6
Notes Session 18 (16 pages)
BONUS: STOP THE BULLSHIT
RESOURCE PACK. Stop The Bullshit (43 pages)
MODULE SEVEN: I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY!
Session 19: No need to understand everything to be happy
The impact of not knowing the reasons for the breakup (7:00)
Quick Exercise. Cost-benefit Analysis Of Wanting To Know The Reasons For The Breakup
Your ex’s beliefs for not giving you any reason (4:00)
Your ex’s beliefs give you only a vague reason (10:00)
Quick Exercise. If Any Of These Were The Reasons Your Ex Broke Up With You…Would You Have Liked To Know?
Quiz Homework. Which Beliefs Are Your Ex Likely To Have?
Notes Session 19 (24 pages)
Session 20: Legitimate vs. ambiguous reasons for a breakup
Legitimate vs. Ambiguous reasons for a breakup (reason 1-8) (7:00)
Legitimate vs. Ambiguous reasons for a breakup (reason 9-15) (6:00)
Quiz. Were There Any Signs Of These Situations For Your Ex?
What did I do wrong? Do you really want to know? (7:00)
Short Exercise. Do You Really Want To Know?
Notes Session 20 (11 pages)
Session 21: Coping with uncertainty about the reasons for the breakup
Uncertainty reduction: 8 goals for understanding the reasons for the breakup (10:00)
What’s achievable then? (2:00)
Quiz. Your beliefs about the need to know the reasons for your breakup
Worry exposure for the fear of not ever knowing the reasons for the breakup (9:00)
How to create a worry exposure to accept that you may never know the reasons (5:00)
What to do once the narrative for worry exposure is done? (6:00)
Troubleshooting your imaginal exposure
Homework 1. My Narrative About Never Understanding The Reasons For The Breakup
What strategies (cognitive or behavioural) maintain the need to know? (4:00)
Quick Exercise. Letter/ Script To Ask The Right Questions To Your Ex To Find Out The Reasons For The Breakup
Quiz. What Of These Maladaptive Strategies Do You Use?
Cognitive restructuring: 9 Techniques to Reframe your maladaptive “need to know” (11:00)
Homework 2. Self-talk On How To Eliminate The Need To Know The Reasons For The Breakup
Final conclusions about Module 7 (2:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 7
Notes Session 21 (25 pages)
BONUS. RELAX FROM THE INSIDE
Resource Pack. Relax from the Inside (31 pages)
MODULE EIGHT: MANAGE YOUR INTRUSIONS!
Session 22: Understanding why intrusive thoughts/memories are so distressing
Psychoeducation on common reactions to a breakup (13:00)
Quiz Homework. Do You Understand Your Intrusions?
Notes Session 22 (6 pages)
Session 23: Grounding techniques: Staying in the here and now
Grounding techniques (1 to 3) (5:00)
Grounding techniques (4 to 14) (6:00)
Grounding techniques (15 to 20) (8:00)
Protocol of Thought Field Therapy for distressing memories
Graph with points where to tap on your body for Thought Field Therapy
Demonstration of Thought Field Therapy
Quiz Homework. Select as many grounding techniques you intent to use during the next two weeks....
Notes Session 23 (13 pages)
Session 24: Working on distressing intrusions
Addressing other problematic areas (8:00)
4 rules to apply imaginal exposure successfully (5:00)
How to create a imaginal narrative for a breakup? (4:00)
What to do when the narrative is done! (4:00)
Quiz. Which narrative is not working?
What a narrative looks like! (5:00)
Example of an imaginal exposure narrative (4 pages)
Homework 1. Your Narrative about the most upsetting Intrusion
Scared of doing imaginal exposure? (5:00)
Troubleshooting your failed imaginal exposure
Quiz Homework 2. What interpretation do you make of your intrusions?
Final conclusions about Module 8 (4:00)
FEEDBACK ON MODULE 8
Notes Session 24 (19 pages)
RELAPSE PREVENTION AND POST-PROGRAM PROGRESS
What's your overall progress?
The Breakup Adjustment Scale
Your recovery indicators
Are you presenting symptoms of depression?
Can you forget that your ex exists?
Can you cope with the pain of a breakup?
How much do you dwell on your breakup?
Are you bothered by intrusions about your ex?
Your Relapse Prevention Plan to maintain the gains
FINAL FEEDBACK ON THE BREAKUP CBT CURE
 

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