Learn Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) from the team that developed this revolutionary practice along with Dr. Aaron Beck. This interactive online course will help you develop skills to work with individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious mental health conditions. You will learn how to: access and energize adaptive modes of living, use the Socratic process to elicit transformative life aspirations, promote daily action that achieves purpose and meaning, and empower and develop resilience in the face of behavioral, social, and physical challenges. You can use CT-R with individuals across the age-span in many settings, including: individual, group, and team-based applications in community-based teams and agencies, acute and long-term inpatient units, correctional settings, and integrative health.
Guided by Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive model, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) provides concrete, actionable steps to promote recovery and resiliency. Originally developed to empower individuals given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, CT-R applies broadly to individuals experiencing extensive behavioral, social, and physical health challenges. CT-R is highly collaborative, person-centered, and strengths-based and focuses on developing and strengthening positive beliefs of purpose, hope, efficacy, empowerment and belonging.
This on-demand course is a good fit for staff of all disciplines across all levels of education and experience working with individuals who have been diagnosed with serious mental health conditions.
Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Addiction Counselors
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- other Behavioral Health Professionals
- Nurses
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Explain the foundational principles of Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R), including its emphasis on strengths, hope, empowerment, and recovery.
Describe how to access and energize the adaptive mode in individuals experiencing serious mental health challenges.
Use the Socratic process to help clients develop meaningful life aspirations and goals.
Apply CT-R strategies to promote purposeful daily action and reinforce positive behavioral patterns.
Implement the Recovery Map to support and monitor progress over time.
Differentiate how CT-R can be adapted to address negative symptoms, delusions, hallucinations, trauma, aggression, and self-injury.
Integrate CT-R interventions into various care environments, including individual therapy, group settings, inpatient units, community-based teams, and correctional facilities.
Foster resilience and belonging by strengthening adaptive beliefs and collaborative relationships.
Demonstrate practical skills in using guided discovery and positive reinforcement to support behavioral and emotional recovery.
Course Modules / Outline
- PART 1 – The Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) Approach
- Module 1: The Basics of CT-R: Public Health, Beliefs, Modes, Recovery, Resilience, &Evidence
- Module 2: Accessing and Energizing the Adaptive Mode
- Module 3: Dreaming Big: Developing the Adaptive Mode with Meaningful Aspirations
- Module 4: Positive Action
- Module 5: Strengthening the Adaptive Mode: Drawing Conclusions with Guided Discovery
- Module 6: Recovery Map
- PART 2 – Applying CT-R to Challenges
- Module 1: Empowerment for Negative Symptoms
- Module 2: Beliefs that can be difficult to understand (Delusions)
- Module 3: Understanding Challenges: Hallucinations
- Module 4: Challenges: Trauma, Aggression, Self-Injury
- PART 3 – Optional Setting-Specific Modules
- Module 1: CT-R in Individual Therapy
- Module 2: CT-R on the Milieu
Why Take This Course?
Working with individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious mental health conditions can be deeply rewarding—but also incredibly complex. Traditional approaches often focus on symptom management, leaving out the person’s potential for growth, purpose, and meaningful recovery.
This course introduces you to Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) — a powerful, evidence-based model developed by Dr. Aaron Beck and his team to go beyond stabilization and ignite transformation.
You’ll learn how to:
Empower clients to envision and pursue a better life, even in the face of persistent challenges.
Replace hopelessness with purpose, using practical tools that energize clients’ adaptive strengths.
Confidently navigate complex symptoms like delusions, hallucinations, and self-injury with clarity and compassion.
Support recovery in any setting—from inpatient units and correctional facilities to community mental health teams.
If you’re ready to make a greater impact in your work and help clients reconnect with meaning, connection, and resilience — this course gives you the tools, structure, and inspiration to do just that.
Meet the Course Expert:
Ellen Inverso, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist currently practicing in Pennsylvania and is a co-developer of recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). She has a national reputation for advocacy and dissemination of CT-R. In her work, she has created transformative CT-R programming for psychiatric inpatient units, programmatic residences, schools, and community teams, with special focus on adolescents and young adults, individuals engaging in extreme forms of self-injury, individuals considering transitions into the community following extended periods of institutionalization, and families. Dr. Inverso has also co-authored curricula for training peer specialists and expert trainers in CT-R. Along with Dr. Aaron T. Beck and colleagues, she is co-author of the book, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Serious Mental Health Conditions, published in 2020 by Guilford Press.
Paul Grant, PhD, is Director of Research, Innovation, and Practice at the Beck Institute Center for Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R). With Aaron T. Beck, he originated CT-R and conducted foundational research to validate it. He is a recipient of awards from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Grant developed group, family, and milieu CT-R approaches, and directs large projects implementing CT-R nationally and internationally. He has developed innovative implementation tools and is involved in researching positive beliefs and teamwide culture change as mediators of successful CT-R outcomes. He is the co-author of Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Serious Mental Health Conditions and Schizophrenia: Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy.
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