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Integrated Psychological Therapy Course

Name: Integrated Psychological Therapy Course
Price: 222 USD

Master the clinical skills required to practice psychiatry as a fully integrated discipline, combining psychopharmacology and evidence-based psychotherapy within a single, coherent treatment framework. This course equips psychiatrists with the assessment, relational, and reasoning tools needed to deliver coordinated care across the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders.

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What you will learn:

You will develop comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and case formulation skills that translate directly into integrated treatment planning. The course covers major psychotherapy modalities - CBT, DBT, ACT, and psychodynamic - and shows how to apply them alongside pharmacotherapy. You will learn to manage the challenges of dual prescriber-therapist roles, including alliance ruptures, countertransference, and boundary issues. Disorder-specific modules cover mood, psychotic, personality, anxiety, trauma, and co-occurring substance-use disorders. You will also build competencies in collaborative team-based care, measurement-based practice, and advanced clinical reasoning for complex, treatment-resistant cases.

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Course Content

8 Chapters • 36 LessonsDuration between 4 and 360 hours (you decide)

Chapter 1See details

Foundations of Integrated Psychological Therapies

Lesson 1 • Core Competencies for Integrated Practice
Defines the clinical, relational, and organizational skills required for integrated psychiatric work. Sets performance benchmarks for the entire course.
Lesson 2 • Biopsychosocial Model in Psychiatry
Examines how biological, psychological, and social factors interact to produce mental illness. Anchors the integrated approach used throughout the course.
Lesson 3 • Ethical and Professional Frameworks
Reviews ethical principles governing dual roles of prescriber and therapist. Establishes professional boundaries essential to integrated practice.
Lesson 4 • History of Integrated Treatment Models
Traces the evolution from siloed psychiatric care to collaborative, multimodal treatment. Provides historical context for current integrated frameworks.

Chapter 2See details

Psychiatric Assessment for Integrated Care

Lesson 1 • Cultural and Diversity Considerations in Assessment
Addresses how culture, identity, and social context shape symptom presentation and help-seeking. Ensures assessments are equitable and culturally responsive.
Lesson 2 • Psychological Testing and Screening Tools
Introduces validated instruments for measuring symptom severity, personality, and functioning. Demonstrates how test data refine integrated formulations.
Lesson 3 • Biopsychosocial Case Formulation
Guides construction of formulations that link predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors. Formulations serve as the blueprint for integrated treatment plans.
Lesson 4 • Structured Diagnostic Interviewing
Teaches systematic methods for gathering diagnostic information within a therapeutic frame. Connects accurate diagnosis to appropriate therapy selection.
Lesson 5 • Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
Covers evidence-based methods for evaluating suicide, self-harm, and violence risk. Integrates risk findings into ongoing therapeutic and pharmacological decisions.

Chapter 3See details

Psychopharmacology Within Integrated Treatment

Lesson 1 • Managing Side Effects Therapeutically
Teaches how to address medication side effects within the therapeutic relationship. Improves adherence by integrating side-effect management into sessions.
Lesson 2 • Medication Attitudes and Meaning
Explores patients' beliefs, fears, and symbolic meanings attached to psychiatric medication. Addresses medication resistance as a therapeutic rather than purely clinical issue.
Lesson 3 • Prescribing Decisions in Combined Treatment
Examines how therapy goals influence medication choice, dosing, and timing. Prevents prescribing decisions from undermining therapeutic progress.
Lesson 4 • Pharmacological Mechanisms Relevant to Therapy
Reviews neurotransmitter systems and drug mechanisms that intersect with psychological change processes. Builds a shared language for discussing medication effects in therapy.

Chapter 4See details

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Modalities

Lesson 1 • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Essentials
Covers CBT's cognitive model, behavioral techniques, and session structure. Establishes CBT as a foundational modality for integration with pharmacotherapy.
Lesson 2 • Psychodynamic and Relational Approaches
Introduces psychodynamic concepts including transference, defense mechanisms, and attachment. Demonstrates how relational insight complements symptom-focused interventions.
Lesson 3 • Matching Modality to Patient and Diagnosis
Provides decision frameworks for selecting among modalities based on evidence and patient factors. Synthesizes the chapter into actionable clinical reasoning.
Lesson 4 • Third-Wave and Mindfulness-Based Therapies
Presents ACT, DBT, and MBCT as extensions of behavioral science. Highlights their unique contributions to emotion regulation and relapse prevention.
Lesson 5 • Interpersonal and Systems-Based Therapies
Covers Interpersonal Therapy and family/systems approaches relevant to psychiatric populations. Expands the treatment frame beyond the individual patient.

Chapter 5See details

The Therapeutic Relationship in Integrated Practice

Lesson 1 • Rupture Detection and Repair
Teaches recognition of alliance ruptures and evidence-based repair strategies. Frames ruptures as therapeutic opportunities rather than failures.
Lesson 2 • Countertransference and Self-Awareness
Explores how clinician reactions influence integrated treatment decisions. Builds reflective capacity to use countertransference productively.
Lesson 3 • Managing the Dual Role of Prescriber-Therapist
Addresses the unique challenges of holding both prescribing and therapeutic roles simultaneously. Develops strategies for role clarity and boundary maintenance.
Lesson 4 • Building and Maintaining Therapeutic Alliance
Examines alliance factors that predict outcomes across therapy and pharmacotherapy. Teaches specific behaviors that strengthen the working relationship.

Chapter 6See details

Integrating Therapy and Medication Across Disorders

Lesson 1 • Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders
Covers integrated approaches for anxiety spectrum and PTSD, including exposure-based and pharmacological strategies. Addresses trauma-informed prescribing.
Lesson 2 • Substance Use and Co-occurring Disorders
Addresses integrated treatment of addiction alongside psychiatric comorbidities. Covers motivational, pharmacological, and behavioral strategies in combination.
Lesson 3 • Integrated Treatment of Mood Disorders
Combines pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy evidence for depression and bipolar disorder. Addresses sequencing, relapse prevention, and maintenance strategies.
Lesson 4 • Psychotic Disorders and Integrated Care
Presents evidence for combining antipsychotics with CBT for psychosis and family interventions. Addresses engagement challenges unique to psychotic presentations.
Lesson 5 • Personality Disorders in Integrated Practice
Examines evidence-based integrated approaches for borderline and other personality disorders. Addresses the complexity of combining medication with long-term therapy.

Chapter 7See details

Collaborative and Team-Based Integrated Care

Lesson 1 • Models of Collaborative Care
Surveys evidence-based collaborative care models used in primary care and specialty settings. Establishes the psychiatrist's role within each model.
Lesson 2 • Coordinating with Psychologists and Therapists
Addresses the specific dynamics of psychiatrist-therapist co-treatment relationships. Develops protocols for regular communication and shared decision-making.
Lesson 3 • Interdisciplinary Communication and Handoffs
Teaches structured communication methods for sharing clinical information across disciplines. Reduces errors and maintains treatment continuity during transitions.
Lesson 4 • Measurement-Based Care in Teams
Introduces systematic outcome tracking using validated measures across the care team. Demonstrates how shared data improve integrated treatment decisions.

Chapter 8See details

Advanced Clinical Reasoning and Case Complexity

Lesson 1 • Reflective Practice and Clinical Supervision
Establishes ongoing reflective practice and supervision as tools for managing complexity. Integrates self-monitoring into routine advanced clinical work.
Lesson 2 • Ethical Dilemmas in Complex Cases
Presents ethical frameworks for navigating conflicts between patient autonomy, safety, and treatment goals. Develops structured ethical decision-making skills.
Lesson 3 • Managing Diagnostic Uncertainty
Addresses clinical reasoning when diagnosis remains unclear despite thorough assessment. Teaches provisional formulation and iterative hypothesis testing.
Lesson 4 • High-Risk and Crisis Presentations
Covers integrated management of acute psychiatric crises within ongoing treatment relationships. Maintains therapeutic continuity through crisis episodes.
Lesson 5 • Treatment-Resistant Presentations
Examines systematic approaches to cases that fail to respond to standard integrated interventions. Builds a stepwise framework for reassessment and augmentation.

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This course is for you:

Psychiatrist in residency: eager to add therapy skills to prescribing practice.
Board-certified psychiatrist: wants to stop referring out and treat patients directly.
Consultation-liaison psychiatrist: needs structured tools for complex, medically ill patients.
Academic psychiatry faculty: seeks a framework to teach trainees integrated clinical reasoning.
Community mental health psychiatrist: serves high-need populations requiring coordinated multimodal care.
Early-career psychiatrist: building a practice model that goes beyond medication management alone.

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