Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS4182 | Nursing | 4 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- NURS4182
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
The course will focus on: core skills in CBT clinical practice i.e. how to structure a session and the use of homework; formulation within CBT theoretical framework; identifying and modifying negative automatic thoughts; identifying and modifyingrules for living and core beliefs; the role and purpose of behavioural experiments in CBT; relapse prevention.
The content will include:
* How to structure a CBT session;
* Collaborative empiricism;
* Socratic questioning and guided discovery;
* How to develop and utilise a CBT maintenance and longitudinal formulation;
* How to identify and modify negative automatic thoughts;
* How to modify rules for living and core beliefs;
* How to construct and utilise effective behavioural experiments;
* The role and purpose of relapse prevention in CBT.
Target Students
Students on the PGDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Classes
Tutor led 70 hours E-learning 50 hours Self directed 80 hours
Assessment
- 100% Assignment: Students will be required to submit a written assignment of up to 2,000 words critically evaluating the core theoretical and clinical principles and clinical interventions of CBT in the context of up to date research evidence (100% weighting).
- Practice Based Portfolio
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
This course aims to develop the student’s ability understand, implement and evaluate core CBT principles and practices. This includes the ability to develop hypotheses regarding psychological development and maintenance factors (formulation) to current problems as a basis for implementing core CBT principles and practices within CBT protocols for anxiety disorders and depression. The Scientist Practitioner Model will be used as a foundation and in this context, students will critically analyse and synthesise data to consider making psychological sense of presenting problems and devising, implementing and evaluating concordant treatment plans. This will include decision-making regarding when it is in the client’s best interests to not make an interventionLearning Outcomes
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the core clinical principles and practices of CBT.
Demonstrate knowledge of the role of maintenance and longitudinal formulation in the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression in CBT for both disorder specific and idiosyncratic clinical presentations.
Demonstrate knowledge of the role of psychometric and idiographic measurement in CBT treatment of anxiety disorders and depression.
Assimilate, critically evaluate and systematically apply knowledge obtained from clinical assessments to make clinical interventions.
Identify, describe, implement and critically evaluate the clinical effectiveness of core clinical principles and practices in CBT.
Implement, interpret and critically evaluate the process of socratic questioning and guided discovery within a framework of collaborative empiricism.
Construct, interpret and analyse in clinical practice both a maintenance and longitudinal formulation of disorder specific and idiosyncratic clinical presentations.
Formulate and justify clinical interventions using the Scientist Practitioner Model within the theory and practice of CBT.
Demonstrate skills in identifying and evaluating the CBT evidence base i.e. NICE Guidance in order to develop a critical understanding of the most up to date CBT intervention for anxiety and depression and to critically evaluate service provision and inform policy.
Challenge arguments and construct, develop and defend a coherent argument using the conventions and skills of academic scholarship.