Treating Low Self-Esteem

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What is this webinar about?

Low self esteem is a common feature of many mental health issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, relationship conflict and anger. Amongst children and young people, in particular, low self esteem can be a critical cause and consequence of psychological distress. Fortunately, there are effective, evidence-based practical techniques which can used with a wide range of issues to break the vicious circles and help clients - adults and young people - strengthen their sense of self.

Key Topics (indicative)

1. What causes low self esteem?
2. What maintains low self esteem?
3. How can it be measured?
4. What does the latest research say?
5. Why is the clinical significance?
6. What practical techniques can be used to treat it?
7. Challenging Unhelpful thinking styles
8. Creating balanced core beliefs
9. Challenging Unhelpful Assumptions and Unhelpful Rules
10. Unconditional Self Acceptance
11. Summary and next steps.

What have previous delegates said about this webinar?

• A really helpful and detailed break-down of what self-esteem is, its causes and how to treat low self-esteem. Very much recommended.
• An interesting engaging session with practical pointers for working with clients with low self esteem.
• I am an integrative and systemic therapist with 12 years experience and I found this a well structured and useful workshop. It has been a good refresher of CBT techniques and current research and offers some tangible tools to use with clients.
• Very informative and relevant to clinical practice.
• I have found this workshop really enlightening and excited to use the techniques advised. Thank you so much!
• Thank you for today's session which was enlightening and informative. I have taken away a lot of useful facts, information and helpful resources.
• Great workshop and lots of practical techniques to help my clients.
• Spot on - relevant to current (and future) client work. Recognised self and past clients in the material. Better understanding of rules v assumptions. Use of positives interesting.
• Great practical tools and techniques discussed, a lot of variation in presentation making it enjoyable and engaging.
• The dynamic model of low self esteem was particularly helpful for understanding LSE and how it can be treated.
• useful to connect self esteem to cognitive model
• This has been a very useful workshop - a good refresher on LSE for even experienced CBT therapists.
• I liked the idea of integrating self-esteem ideas with Ellis' unconditional self-acceptance. I like the goal of USA. But I can see they can work together to achieve this.
• I found the workshop extremely helpful for a better understanding of treating LSE. Very informative and outstanding delivery. Thank you!
• Really good thank you
• I'm a person centred student in currently in placement and am working with clients that suffer from low self-esteem. This workshop was ideal and easy to follow, and I look forward to using the info with my clients.
• I am a student counsellor and have recently begun my placement work and found this mornings webinar very helpful. Very clear and concise and the breakout groups were very beneficial
• "I enjoyed the work shop and the mixture of presentation and interactive. New practice ideas and useful resources. Shared recent research articles"
• Newly qualified, so found this myself and found this very helpful for new complex clients with low self-esteem. This was helpful for treatment planning and recommended techniques, and to simply for client around identifying layers of their thoughts

Who is leading this webinar?

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.