Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Level 4) Course

Module 1: What is CBT?

• Cognitive Therapy
• Behaviour Therapy
• How do they work together?
• History of CBT

Module 2: Automatic Thoughts

• CBT Strategies
• How they affect people
• Helping people to cope

Module 3: What can a client expect in CBT treatment?

• Homework
• Who benefits from CBT?
• Limitations of CBT
• Focusing on the present
• Depression
• Bipolar I
• Bipolar II
• Cyclothymic Disorder
• Who can suffer from depression?
• Eating Disorders
• What is an eating disorder?
• Who is affected?
• Using CBT to treat a eating disorder
• OCD
• What is OCD?
• Who is affected?
• Using CBT to treat OCD
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• What is PTSD?
• Who is affected?
• Using CBT to treat PTSD
• Anxiety
• What is Anxiety?
• Who is affected?
• Using CBT to treat anxiety
• Schizophrenia
• What is schizophrenia?
• Who is affected?
• Using CBT to treat schizophrenia
• Addiction and CBT
• Personality disorders + CBT
  

Module 4: The importance and significance of dreams in CBT

• Working with imagery
• Irrational beliefs

Module 5: Schema Therapy

• Early maladaptive schema
• Schema focused therapy
• Disconnection and rejection
• Impaired autonomy and performance
• Impaired limits
• Other directions
• Over vigilance and inhibition
• Acceptance and commitment therapy
• Supervision

Module 6: Socratic questioning

• What we think
• Boundaries and regulations
• Locus of power
• Attachment
• Loss
• Safeguard against abuse
• Trust
• Ethical practice
• Moving Forward

Module 7: The Use of Medication

• Who needs medication?
• Use of CBT and Medication