Low Intensity Psychological Interventions Graduate and PG Cert

The programme consists of 3 modules at 20 credits

Module 1 – Engagement and Assessment of People with Common Mental Health Problems

Module 2 - Evidence-based Low Intensity Treatments for Common Mental Health Problems

Module 3 - Values, Diversity and Context

The first module, Engagement and Assessment of People with Common Mental Health Problems, equips students with knowledge about the incidence, prevalence and presentation of common mental health problems and evidenced-based treatment choices.

The second module, Evidence Based Low Intensity Psychological Interventions for Common Mental Health Problems, equips students with an overview of how PWPs aid clinical improvement through the provision of information and support for evidence-based low intensity psychological treatments and regularly used pharmacological treatments for common mental health problems.

The third module, Values, Diversity & Context, exposes students to the concepts of diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism and equips students with the necessary knowledge and competencies to operate in an inclusive values-driven service and to apply effective principles of working in a team (e.g. case management & supervision).

Teaching and assessment

At the heart of the programme is the practice-based learning at the IAPT service that offers the placement. Students are required to complete a minimum of 80 clinical contact hours with patients (face-to-face or on the telephone) within an IAPT service (or equivalent stepped care service) as a requirement of their training and should undertake a minimum of 40 hours of supervision of which at least 20 hours should be case management supervision and at least 20 hours should be clinical skills supervision. Each module has practice based learning outcomes that have to be met during the clinical placement.

The three 20-credit modules consist of 200 hours of learning each. The Programmes run for a total of 45 days, 30 of which are spent in teaching-based activities on-campus. The remaining 15 days are spent in directed, practice-based learning (DPBL) within an IAPT Service or a University-designated context.

Assessments consist of a variety of activities in which student-trainees demonstrate fundamental acquisition of required knowledge and clinical competencies; these include but are not limited to formative and summative role play videos with actors, videos with service users, review of journal articles, written examinations, clinical case planning presentations, case reports, written reflections, case and supervision logs and portfolios,