Post Qualification Certificate in Behavioural Couples Therapy |
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Applications are invited for our Post Qualification Certificate in Behavioural Couples therapy, which is a recent addition to our continuing professional development programme. This Course will be ideal for experienced CBT practitioners who are seeking to develop their skills in working with couples to reduce couple distress and improve outcomes where one partner has a psychological problem. Behavioural Couples Therapy (BCT) is an evidence-based psychological treatment that has acquired a significant amount of empirical support for the benefits it provides, both in terms of reducing couple distress and in improving specific psychological disorders, such as depression. BCT is distinct from, but complements, individual CBT using a range of methods to enhance relationship well-being as well as reduce individual psychological distress. The Programme comprises a five-day intensive training followed by on-going monthly small group supervision for 12 months.
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- Programme Content & Aims
- Training Team
- Entry Criteria
- Application Form
- Fees
Programme Content and Aims
The aim of the Programme is to equip candidates with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to provide effective Behavioural Couples Therapy. The formal teaching sessions include didactic, experiential and small group work. The supervision then enables candidates to consolidate their competences and consider how to adapt practice to the needs of their service setting.
Indicative content includes:
• Assessing and conceptualising
couple functioning
• Identifying cognitive and
behavioural factors in couple
distress
• Developing couple-based
interventions
• Strategies to regulate emotional
experience and expression
• Enhancing couple communication
skills
• Addressing the physical
relationship
A Certificate of Completion is dependent upon attending all of the formal training as well as the ongoing clinical supervision.
Training Team
The formal training is provided by Professor Don Baucom, Dr Michael Worrell and Professor Sarah Corrie.
Don Baucom is a leading expert on Behavioural Couples Therapy, who has been actively involved in developing theoretical, research and clinical approaches to couple-based interventions from a CBT perspective since 1976.
The supervision component of the programme is provided by Dr Michael Worrell, Director of CBT Training, and Prof Sarah Corrie, Programme Director of the Post Graduate Diploma and MSc in CBT. Both Michael & Sarah work clinically with couples using BCT.
There will be 5 days of experientially based skills training from 8th - 12th December 2014 followed by an 11 month programme of small group monthly supervision.
Entry criteria
Eligible candidates will be qualified health professionals who are able to demonstrate prior post-qualification experience of having studied and delivered CBT interventions, the appropriateness of BCT to their current and future therapy practice, and an ability to attend regular monthly small group supervision which will involve travel to London.
Selection is by application form only.
Applications close 14th November 2014.
Application Form
Then return completed form including copies of degrees or certificates to:
Admissions Tutor, Psychology Department, 7A Woodfield Road, London W9 2NW
Fees
Fees for 2014 are £1,800.
Please Contact: Dr Michael Worrell, Director of CBT Training on michael.worrell@nhs.net for further information.
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