The Essentials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

This course is an introduction to an effective psychological framework that is user friendly and adaptive to meet clients’ and every professional’s needs whether they work in social care, primary care, community or hospital settings.

Professionals require a range of psychological models of care and intervention to help them understand how they and their clients respond to life problems and to help clients tackle these problems effectively.

Course content:

Psychological principles of cognitive and behavioural psychotherapy.
Characteristics of primary emotions including anger, anxiety, depression and reactions to stress.
Recognising types of thoughts and behaviours relevant to a client’s distress.
Engaging the client.
Assessment of the client.
Introduction to cognitive behavioural formulation building.
Interviewing strategies.
Measuring change.
Cognitive behavioural change strategies.