PGCert in Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
University of Oxford
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About the courseThis course aims to equip experienced CBT healthcare professionals with the enhanced CBT skills necessary to implement evidence-based treatment across a wide range of clinical presentations, and to disseminate these treatments as trainers and supervisors to other practitioners. This course is designed to help you achieve certain aims. By the end of the course, students should be able to. appreciate how theory, research and clinical practice inform each other in cognitive ...Read more

About the course

This course aims to equip experienced CBT healthcare professionals with the enhanced CBT skills necessary to implement evidence-based treatment across a wide range of clinical presentations, and to disseminate these treatments as trainers and supervisors to other practitioners.

This course is designed to help you achieve certain aims. By the end of the course, students should be able to.

  • appreciate how theory, research and clinical practice inform each other in cognitive behavioural therapy, contributing to its continued development
  • establish and practise a repertoire of enhanced cognitive behavioural skills
  • develop the ability to apply these skills with specialist patient groups and problem areas encountered in their own places of work
  • establish and maintain warm, respectful, collaborative relationships, and develop the ability to understand and manage difficulties in the alliance (including the student’s contribution) using a cognitive conceptual framework
  • through consultation, identify and resolve difficulties in practice, whether arising from theoretical, practical, interpersonal, personal or ethical problems.

Students will be expected to have access to treatment settings with regular clinical and CBT supervision where cognitive behavioural therapy skills can be practised and refined on a regular basis.

Supervision

The allocation of graduate supervision for this course is the responsibility of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and it is not always possible to accommodate the preferences of incoming graduate students to work with a particular member of staff. A supervisor may be found outside the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.

Assessment

Summative assessment requirements vary according to the specialism chosen.

  • Children and Adolescents
  • Complex Presentations
  • Psychological Trauma
  • Psychosis and Bipolar
  • Supervision and Training

Graduate destinations

Completion of the course provides access to a growing network of course graduates and to an ongoing programme of follow-up workshops on CBT and related topics. Further supervision through OCTC may also be negotiated, for example, for participants wishing to achieve accreditation by the British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies as a therapist, supervisor and/or trainer.

This award forms the foundation for further professional and clinical development, which can be pursued within the larger framework of the OCTC/University of Oxford CBT programme. The programme offers specialist training that, with further study, can lead to a PGDip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

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Entry requirements

As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the equivalent of the following UK qualifications or their equivalent: a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in a relevant subject. For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.5 out of 4.0.

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£5,860 per year

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£5,860 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from EU

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£5,860 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

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University of Oxford
University Offices Wellington Square Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 2JD United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Oxford  0.2 miles away

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