Format: Live-online Lecturer Led Classes (Virtual-Classroom) via Zoom

Duration: 1 Evening Every Week 6pm to 9pm

Online Live Attendance: 30 Hours

Self-Directed Learning: 30 Hours

Total CPD Credits: 60 Credits

Assessment: Formative & Summative Assessment

Award: Accredited Professional Diploma

 

Course Accreditation:

• Professional Development Consortium

• Provider of Excellence

• CPD Standards Office

• Irish Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (ICPA)

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Key Learning Outcomes:

 

Participants will learn to:

• Understand and apply the core principles of CBT and the cognitive model

• Conduct comprehensive CBT assessments and case formulations

• Deliver structured, goal-oriented CBT interventions for anxiety, depression, and related conditions

• Implement CBT techniques such as thought records, behavioural experiments, graded exposure, and cognitive restructuring

• Integrate third-wave CBT strategies including mindfulness, compassion, and schema work

• Adapt CBT for use with adolescents, trauma survivors, and clients with comorbidities

• Maintain ethical standards and reflect on clinical competence and professional boundaries

 

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Course Outline – 10 Modules

 

Module 1: Foundations of CBT

• Theoretical roots: Beck, Ellis, Meichenbaum

• The CBT model: interaction between thoughts, behaviours, emotions, and physiology

• Role of core beliefs, intermediate assumptions, and automatic thoughts

 

Module 2: CBT Assessment and Case Formulation

• Structuring initial assessments

• Collaborative goal-setting and agenda building

• Introduction to the 5-Area CBT formulation model

• Risk and safeguarding considerations

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Module 3: Core Cognitive Techniques

• Socratic questioning and guided discovery

• Identifying and challenging negative automatic thoughts

• Introduction to thought records and belief restructuring

 

Module 4: Behavioural Strategies in CBT

• Behavioural activation for depression

• Exposure hierarchies and avoidance reduction

• Behavioural experiments for anxiety and phobias

 

Module 5: Working with Anxiety and Depression

• CBT protocols for panic disorder, GAD, social anxiety, and depression

• Addressing safety behaviours, rumination, and worry loops

• Cognitive restructuring in mood disorders

 

Module 6: CBT for Trauma and Intrusive Thoughts

• Adapting CBT for PTSD and complex trauma

• Managing intrusive thoughts and cognitive intrusions

• Psychoeducation and grounding strategies

 

Module 7: Third-Wave CBT Approaches

• Introduction to Schema Therapy, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), and CFT

• Integrating mindfulness and values-based action

• Building psychological flexibility

 

Module 8: CBT with Adolescents and Special Populations

• Developmental adaptations of CBT

• Working with young people and clients with neurodiversity

• CBT in group settings and brief interventions

 

Module 9: Relapse Prevention and Long-Term Maintenance

• Developing relapse prevention plans

• Strengthening metacognition and self-monitoring

• Empowering clients through self-help tools

 

Module 10: Ethics, Supervision, and Reflective Practice

• Boundaries, scope of practice, and informed consent in CBT

• Use of supervision and reflective practice models

• Self-evaluation and clinical competence in CBT integration

 

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