Post Qualifying Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Course CONTENT

Module one

• Mental health – origins of healthy and problematic cognitions, affective responses and behaviour, and their maintenance
• What is CBT?
• Why CBT and for what?
• Theraputic Alliance and the CBT format

Module two

• Review of practice case study
• Contexts and Cognitive Triads
• Problems and cognitive style
• Assessment for CBT and Case Conceptualisation

Module three

• Review of case study
• Practice Principles
• Practice CBT specific Applications
• Challenging negative automatic thoughts
• Socratic Questionning
• Guided Discovery
• Diaries, metaphor, experiments and evaluations

Module four

• Review of ‘Live’ Clinical Case studies.
• Endings

COURSE AIMS

This course will provide training consistent with the NICE guidelines for basic cognitive behavioural therapy knowledge and skills relating to:

Knowledge of the cognitive component in CBT –
the way people think and create meaning about events in their lives, how this links to the ways in which they develop beliefs about themselves, others and the world in which they live and how these beliefs influence behaviours.

Knowledge of the behavioural component in CBT-
    the ways in which people respond to distress by behaviours which can maintain or worsen their problem (for example by avoidance or by reducing or restricting an activity, as a method of managing difficult emotions).

The course will also address:

• Theoretical underpinnings of CBT
• Principles for practice of cognitive behavioural therapy
• CBT specific interventions through Guided Discovery
• Opportunities to apply theory, techniques and principles for practice through discussion and rehearsal (role play)

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• Conceptualise presented problems from a CBT perspective.
• Assess appropriately the client’s ability to make use of CBT and contextual influences
• Improve your skills base to include CBT as an applicable method of enquiry and intervention, particularly with anxiety and depression
• Utilise the principles and techniques of practice to design interventions.
• Help clients develop a focussed approach to problem solving
• Increase client learning through collaboration
• Evaluate effectively 

Additional Information >

Course title

Post Qualifying Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Duration

6 months (4 weekends)

48 hours

9.30am-4.30pm

Entry requirements

Experienced counselors and therapists currently in practice, with little or no prior knowledge of CBT. Consideration is also given to professionals from other fields that can bring live case examples to the training.

Intakes

September / January

Cost

From £944.52 (inc VAT)

Dates

September 2010 Intake

September

11, 12

October

2, 3, 30, 31

November

27, 28