Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and Depression 2
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS4184 | Nursing | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- NURS4184
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
The course will focus on working with complexity in CBT.
The content will include:
* PTSD and type I and II trauma;
* Using an idiosyncratic longitudinal formulation to treat co-morbid clinical presentations;
* Hopelessness and suicide;
* Loss and bereavement;
* Chronic and recurrent depression;
* Medically unexplained symptoms;
* Personality disorder.
Target Students
Students on the PGDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Classes
Tutor led 70 hours Elearning 50 hours Self directed 80 hours
Assessment
- 20% Recording: Students will be required to submit a digital recording of a CBT session conducted in clinical practice with a consenting patient from their caseload in which the student is delivering a disorder specific CBT protocol for rating on the CTS-r.
- 80% Presentation: Case study to be delivered as a 20 minute live presentation.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This course aims to develop the student’s ability understand, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of CBT when working with complexity in CBT. 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 an idiosyncratic formulation driven CBT intervention for co-morbid clinical presentations. 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 patient’s best interests to not make an intervention.Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of the range of adaptations that need to be made to core clinical principles and practices of CBT when working with complexity in CBT.
Demonstrate critical knowledge and synthesis of clinical data when using a formulation driven intervention to work with co-morbid clinical presentations.
Demonstrate knowledge of the role of psychometric and idiographic measurement in CBT treatment of co-morbid clinical presentations in CBT.
Identify, describe, implement and critically evaluate the clinical effectiveness of idiosyncratic longitudinal CBT formulation for disorder specific and co-morbid clinical presentations.
Implement, interpret and critically evaluate the process of Socratic questioning and guided discovery within a framework of collaborative empiricism when implementing idiosyncratic longitudinal CBT formulation for anxiety disorders and depression and co-morbid clinical presentations.
Construct, utilise and analyse in clinical practice an idiosyncratic longitudinal CBT formulation for anxiety disorders and depression and co-morbid clinical presentations.
Assimilate, critically evaluate and systematically apply knowledge obtained to make clinical interventions using an idiosyncratic longitudinal formulation in CBT.
Formulate and justify idiosyncratic longitudinal CBT formulation for depression and anxiety and co-morbid clinical presentations 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.