Teaching Exercises, Demos & Assignments

Please take advantage of ABCT’s catalogue of psychology course exercises, demonstrations, and assignments related to the teaching of CBT. This list is constantly growing as ABCT members and allied professional educators generously share for public posting. Each is listed with its topic, a brief description, instructor, and university affiliation.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

• Manual-Based Parent Training — Nangle (University of Maine)
  • Using the Defiant Children manual as a guide, students conduct a parent training intervention.
• Student-Selected Manual-Based Treatment – Nangle (University of Maine)
  • Each student obtains the requisite materials needed to implement an evidence-based manualized treatment, and using the manual, etc., each student carries out two treatment sessions.
• Annotated Bibliography Assignment – Nangle (University of Maine)
  • Each student will complete an annotated bibliography on the treatment of a selected disorder or clinical problem area affecting children and/or adolescents.

Adult Psychotherapy

• Student-Selected Manual-Based Treatment – Nangle (University of Maine)
  • Each student obtains the requisite materials needed to implement an evidence-based manualized treatment, and using the manual, etc., each student carries out two treatment sessions.
• Application of Evidence-Based Practice-Salters-Pedneault (Eastern Connecticut State)
  • These three short paper assignments are designed to introduce undergraduate students to the principles and application of evidence-based practice. Each student receives a different hypothetical client, and follows that client from assessment to termination.
• Self-monitoring Paper – Brady
• Pseudoscience and Clinical Psychology – Brady

Multiculturalism/Diversity

• Management of a racial, ethnic, cultural issue in therapy assignment – Williams

If you are interesting in submitting your own course exercise, demonstration, or assignment for public posting, please email each file as an attached word document to [email protected], and include “Assignment submission” in the subject line. Please also include a brief (1-2 sentence) description of the content of the submission in the body of the email.

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