Course description
Course Aims
The Course seeks to enable students to:
- Appreciate how theory, research and clinical practice inform each other in cognitive behavioural therapy, contributing to its continued development
- Establish and practise a repertoire of enhanced cognitive behavioural skills
- Develop the ability to apply these skills with specialist patient groups and problem areas encountered in their own places of work
- Establish and maintain warm, respectful, collaborative relationships, and develop the ability to understand and manage difficulties in the alliance (including the student’s contribution) using a cognitive conceptual framework
- Through consultation, identify and resolve difficulties in practice, whether arising from theoretical, practical, interpersonal, personal or ethical problems
Programme details
Having successfully completed a Postgraduate Certificate in CBT, or Enhanced CBT, students may apply to progress to the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT by continuing their studies with one of four specialist pathways:
Complex Presentations - This course trains therapists to apply evidence-based treatment to presentations falling outside standard CBT protocols – given that comorbidity and complexity are often the rule, and not the exception, in clinical populations.
Psychological Trauma - The course covers the impact of psychological trauma on brain function, memory and psychological development, as well as techniques for working effectively with developmental and adult trauma in a range of trauma populations.
Psychosis and Bipolar -This new addition to the OCTC programme reflects the growing evidence base for CBT as an effective intervention for people with psychotic and bipolar disorders. Cognitive models of psychosis and bipolar will be covered as well as the latest evidence-based techniques for working with these client groups.
Supervision and Training - The course aims to develop both supervisory and training skills by combining didactic presentation with live teaching and supervision practice. It reflects the increased expectation that clinicians are offered sound supervision and training in CBT in order to achieve adequate standards of CBT.
Applications are now being accepted for entry in September 2020. Please visit our website for further information.
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