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PgDip Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

PgDip Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

MAR-24

Key information
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Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Behaviour Therapy

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Our Graduate College provides a friendly, diverse and supportive environment for all our postgraduate students.

Overview

If you wish to qualify as a cognitive behavioural therapist this course offers an excellent programme of study. With an emphasis on self-practice and self-reflection, it will enhance your therapy skills and support you during an intensive but rewarding year of study.

Teaching is delivered across a mix of classroom and clinical practice-based learning, clinical supervision and intensive skills workshops. This training will provide you with the key competencies and skills to work effectively as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, providing interventions for a range of clinical presentations.

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy offers an excellent programme of study for those wishing to qualify as CBT therapists. It is immediately accreditable by the BABCP.

Places on this programme are offered via application for a full-time paid trainee position in a service that is part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Department of Health initiative. These posts may be advertised on the NHS jobs website or in other local press or provider literature. If you would like more information on the IAPT job roles and terms of employment (these may differ between services), we would recommend contacting local service providers direct. Contact details of these can be obtained from the programme administrator.

Your future career

As an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, you will be able to practise within public (NHS) or private mental health services, or as in independent practitioner.

Modules

Consolidation of the Fundamentals of CBT provides trainees with a range of opportunities to build upon their generic competencies in using the CBT model.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

To be confirmed

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

Applicants should have a professional qualification recognised by the BABCP, or be able to demonstrate they have the required core training and competence for the delivery of a psychological therapy within an ethical framework. This can be done by completing a Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) portfolio prior to interview (please read BABCP web pages for details of the KSA portfolio).

University information

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) was first established in 1962 and has, for over 60 years, built an exceptional reputation for the quality of its study programmes. In total there are around 20,000 students enrolled at the university, with a fifth enrolled in a postgraduate qualification. Students study in one of three academic faculties: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social...more

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