CBT for Anxiety Disorders

Module start dates

Lancaster - 28 November 2013

Why study with us?

We have built up excellent working relationships with our clinical partners in Lancashire and Cumbria in supporting students in the development CBT practice.

The CBT for Anxiety Disorders module aims to enable you to select the most appropriate change methods for anxiety, and other disorders that have adopted anxiety models, based on your assessment, knowledge and existing evidence. The emphasis of these aims is to study disorder-specific rather than generic models of CBT.

Finance

If you are employed within NHS North West and this module is to be funded by your employing Trust, please contact your Line Manager and CPD Lead for advice relating to funding and the funding application process.

What can this course lead to?

Students may be able to progress to the MSc/PgD Advanced Practice in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy award or PgC Evidence Based Psychological Approaches (CBT) award.

Completion of the postgraduate award assists application for accreditation as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist with the British Association of Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapists, application for employment as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist or employment within the NHS workforce as a High Intensity Worker in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services.

Resources and facilities

We are amongst the UK’s leading health and wellbeing faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff. If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent.

Entry requirements

Evidence of prior successful study at underpinning level.

More information about levels and credits.

Credit and UCAS requirements Credit: 20 credits Selection criteria

The module is suitable for practitioners who are involved in the delivery of health and social care/psychologically focussed interventions across a range of disciplines, roles and service areas, and who have:

• Access to adult clients presenting with anxiety. Summative assessment will be a CBT case study. Faculty policies on confidentiality within assessment apply to assessed work within this module.
• Successfully completed the pre-requisite module HLLT7001 * Fundamentals of CBT.
• Students must participate in the formative components of the assessment in order to successfully pass the module.

Modules

HLLT7002 CBT for Anxiety Disorders (20 credits at level 7)

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of the module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced cognitive behavioural skills application via a critical account of selected interventions with a chosen client.
• Demonstrate mastery of advanced and sophisticated disorder-specific cognitive behavioural case conceptualisation with a selected client.
• Critically evaluate the psychological theory underpinning the advanced practice of short term CBT in a relevant Axis I anxiety disorder
• Demonstrate advanced skills of inquiry, critical analysis and empathic self-reflection on their CBT practice within specific anxiety disorders and personal experiences.

Course summary

Indicative module content includes: disorder–specific models; panic, phobias, social Anxiety; GAD; PTSD; OCD; anxiety and related disorders; conceptualisation, appraisal of threat, assessment, diagnostics and formulation; internal logic; normalisation; empathy and formulation; application of specific techniques; behavioural experimentation; safety seeking behaviours; catastrophic misinterpretations; maintenance; manualised/computerised CBT; stepped care.