CBT Awareness

About this course.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, almost always shortened to CBT, is one of the most widely used and well-evidenced talking therapies in the world. It helps people manage a wide range of problems by changing the way they think and the way they behave, focusing on the difficulties a person is facing here and now and giving them practical tools to break the patterns that keep distress going. It is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for many common conditions, including depression, anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This is an awareness-level course, written for health, care, education and support staff and anyone who wants to understand the approach or use CBT-informed ideas to support their own wellbeing.

Completing this course does NOT qualify you to deliver CBT as a therapist — becoming a CBT therapist requires accredited, in-depth professional training, supervised practice and registration. What it will do is give you a sound, accurate understanding of the cognitive model that sits at the heart of CBT — the link between thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviour — and introduce common techniques such as thought records, reframing, behavioural activation and graded exposure at a self-help level, plus how to support others without trying to be their therapist and where to point people for proper help. The course concludes with a 20-question multiple-choice assessment, which you must pass at 80% to earn your CPD certificate.