Our most popular and critically acclaimed three-day intensive training on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic approach. The course has been developed and taught by accredited CBT therapists and multidisciplinary in nature. This course introduces you to CBT within a context of other therapeutic methods using a wide range of learning techniques: live demonstrations, video demonstrations, presentation, experiential exercises etc.
This course introduces you to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy within a context of other therapeutic methods using a wide range of learning techniques.
Our aim is to provide you with the highest possible standard of training and enable you to make immediate use of your learning.
You will leave this course with a solid grounding in CBT that you can put into practice straight away.
The course covers: the history and meaning of CBT, conceptualising cases in CBT terms, the format of a standard CBT session, and the most important CBT techniques.
At every stage of your learning theory will be constantly applied to practical examples.
We will provide you with quality seminar materials including photocopiable worksheets, checklists and forms to use with your clients.
All techniques will be illustrated either by live or video demonstrations. Delegates will practise techniques in group and pair exercises.
This course is an important part of the training programme that enables you to complete the BPS Approved Master Practitioner Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as well as several other BPS Approved Certificates. You can gradually build up your CBT training portfolio by attending all the courses within the chosen programme at the pace that suits you. All your training hours will be calculated, recorded in an individual validated log and accumulated towards your full Diploma or Certificate.
HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR CBT TRAINING 6-point checklist:
✓ Tutor: BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist
✓ Approval: Course is Accredited/Approved by a Recognised External Body
✓ Company’s Reputation: Your own previous experience/Recommendation/Taster Sessions
✓ Practical/Theoretical Balance: So that you can have practical skills even after an introductory course
✓ Access and recording: With most companies teaching online – make sure that you have a recording for free after the session
✓ Opportunity to build on: Working towards the larger Certificates and Diplomas that take into account your initial training
Day 1
- Introduction group members, facilitator, course objective and timetable
- Learning expectations
- History of CBT. What is CBT now? Constructivist exercise
- Goal setting (SMART). Learning goals for this course.
- Structure of session, therapeutic alliance
- Agenda setting/session bridging. (Examples & exercise of agenda setting)
- Maintenance formulation. Hot Cross Bun.
- Basic CBT conceptualization.
- Beck’s triad. How can knowledge of Becks triad enhance the hot cross bun model?
- Thinking errors. Working with cognition (hot cognition, thought records)
- Cognitive restructuring: Socratic Method, balance of evidence table
- Homework effect on treatment outcome – how to set up homework tasks
Day 2
- Review and timetable for day 2. Setting day’s objective
- Check out home work – how to evaluate homework use of diary, how to overcome difficulties
- CBT developmental model (J Beck)
- Characteristics of core beliefs and dysfunctional assumptions
- Identifying core beliefs downward arrow technique
- Eliciting negative assumptions and modifying them
- Techniques to modify dysfunctional assumption and beliefs
- Positive thought log and other techniques to modify higher order cognitions
- Setting up behavioural experiments / surveys
- Designing behavioural experiments to confirm or disconfirm those beliefs
- Principle of Behavioural Activation. Explain how to fill in an activity log
- Alternative, additional behavioural methods (exposure, desensitization)
- Homework behaviour experiment. End of the day round ‘What have I learnt’
Day 3
- Review and timetable for day 3. Setting day’s objective
- Check out home work. Review homework – how to use “wrong results” in therapeutic practice
- Functional analysis. Classical ABC
- Modification of antecedents and consequences
- Role of Monitoring, Scales and standardised questionnaires
- Progress monitoring formal scales, self constructed scales
- Closure of therapy – therapy blue print and relapse prevention
- How to formulate a treatment plan
- Review of course goals and progress monitoring
- Feedback in written form
- Summary and closure
There is a heavy reliance on video and live demonstrations of techniques, combined with specially developed exercises that allow participants to practise the skills learnt.
BOOKING OPTIONS:
SDS Accreditation Levels for CBT Training
Foundation Stage, Level 1
Level 1 (Foundation Stage) is the level you obtain by attending the CBT: Introductory Course, completing the relevant Evidence Reading Module and passing the online test.
This level gives you a BPS Approved Certificate, and enables you to state in your CV that you have Level 1 (Foundation) as a CBT Practitioner, and use PCBT (Foundation) qualification in your title.
Without further training, your level currently lasts for 3 years, after which you cannot make the above statement. However, continuing training in CBT with SDS Seminars after the completion of your CBT Introductory Course enables you to extend this level beyond the initial expiration date. Should you let your level lapse, you need to retake CBT: Introductory Course.