CBT Training for Treating Clients with Substance Abuse Disorder
$75 for Annual User License
(group discounts available)
Developed with World-Class Subject-Matter Experts
Designed to Supplement Classroom Training
and to Support Practicing Clinicians
Purchase HerePractice & Build CBT Skills with Virtual Role-Players
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Training for Treating Clients with Substance Abuse Disorder is an interactive suite of role-play simulation that provides opportunities for clinicians, and clinicians in training, to practice their skills while receiving real-time feedback. Click to learn about ways people use our simulations
The Research: Training Significantly Improves CBT Skills
The 2020 study tests whether this simulation improves trainee skills for the treatment of clients with substance use disorders. Graduate students (N = 65; social work, clinical psychology) completed standardized patient (SP) interviews, were randomized to the simulation training program or manual comparison condition (Project MATCH manual) and completed SP interviews three months post-baseline. Results indicated a significant group effect, with students assigned to the simulation training program showing greater improvement in “extensiveness” and “skillfulness” ratings across three skill categories:
- General agenda setting (p-value =.03)
- Explaining CBT concepts (p-value=.007)
- Understanding of CBT concepts (p-value=.001)
Research by Mastroleo et al. To read the paper, click here
Role-Play Simulations
Tanisha Mosley is looking to cut back on her drinking and reduce her stress. Practice introducing her to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a method to help change her drinking habits.
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Roger Ellison has been working through CBT techniques to help reduce his drinking. Help him fill out a self-monitoring record and examine a recent drinking episode to show how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact with each other during an episode.
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Melody Denison has been using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reduce her drinking. In this session, practice building a change plan and identifying her motivations and barriers for change.
Play VideoPractice and Build Skills
Use Core CBT Skills to Reducing Alcohol Use
- Set Agenda and maintain session structure
- Explain core concepts of CBT
- Describe why CBT works for changing drinking behaviors
- Describe connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- Individualize CBT for specific client needs
- Discuss recent drinking episode
- Use examples and worksheets to explain concepts
- Assign and review homework
Relationships
- Collaboration
- Conversational tone
- Empathy
* This work was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
[Grant number R44AA023719].
* System development was in collaboration with Binghamton University's Dr. Nadine Mastroleo, Brown
University's Dr. Molly Magill, and a panel of experts from Binghamton University, Brown University, and
Yale University
SIMmersion's PeopleSim® Technology
During a conversation with one of the role-players, user’s select from a rich set of prompts. Each selected prompt typically has 5 to 15 available responses. The PeopleSim software calculates probabilities for each response and uses them to randomly choose one response. The calculations are based on one of the randomly selected role-player's personalities and the relationship the user has developed with the role-player. The relationship between the user and the role-player will evolve in a way that depends on what the user says. Click here to learn more about SIMmersion’s PeopleSim technology.
Testimonials
"SIMmersion simulations provide low-risk opportunities for students to extend their learning beyond the classroom and field experiences and are a great complement to classroom instruction.”
"SIMmersion simulations are amazing tools that I use to provide students with the opportunity to practice skills relevant to becoming a strong practitioner."
“SIMmersion's interactive simulations allowed me to practice engaging with a ‘client’ without fear that I might negatively impact them by saying the wrong thing."