Feeling Safe

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The Feeling Safe Program is a cognitive-behavioral treatment for individuals with psychosis. Developed with over a decade of research, it is the most effective psychological treatment for persecutory delusions currently available. Application of the model is relevant to individuals across the spectrum of psychosis including early psychosis. Join us to participate in this unique opportunity to learn the Feeling Safe protocol from the developers of the model offered for the first time in the USA.

Please note this course is only open to clinicians.

CE Credit

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation

American Medical Association (AMA)
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 28.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ASWB Approved Continuing Education Credit (ACE)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Stanford Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this activity receive 28.0 general continuing education credits.

American Psychological Association (APA)
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:

Describe the rationale, development process, and implementation of Feeling Safe in the treatment of persecutory delusions
Explain the values and therapy style of Feeling Safe
Formulate each of the treatment targets in Feeling Safe
Apply the five Feeling Safe intervention modules
Name the key assessments to direct and monitor the therapy

Background

Professor Daniel Freeman

Bio

Professor Daniel Freeman is the world’s leading researcher of paranoia. He holds the Chair of Psychology at the University of Oxford and is a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Daniel is a consultant clinical psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator, and leads the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) research group. A Fellow of the British Academy, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series A History of Delusions and has described his clinical research career in a new book, Paranoia: A Journey into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety.

Dr. Louise Isham

Bio

Dr. Louise Isham is a consultant clinical psychologist specializing in psychological treatments for distressing psychotic experiences. She works for the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) research group at the University of Oxford, where she was a therapist on the Feeling Safe trial and leads a program of work developing the psychological understanding and treatment of harmful grandiose delusions. She is also the CBT for psychosis training lead at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, an internationally renowned CBT training organization. She is the course director of the University’s PGCert in Enhanced CBT (Psychosis and Bipolar).

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