This is a fortnightly 10 day fun and skills focused programme. It is  designed for qualified counsellors and mental health professionals of diverse orientations. The course will enable you to confidently add CBT as an important dimension of your practice and improve your employment chances within the NHS, as well as developing its usefulness as part of a longer and deeper psychotherapeutic process. 

The course is taught by Ken Rabone who as an Integrative Practioner is ideally placed to present the Humanist  and creative nature of CBT.  Many of the ideas of CBT are not unique to  the modality.  The course is designed to equip counsellors with the structure and tools to make CBT work within the context of their previous training.   Role play, real play, and a range of imaginative excercises  will be used for the development of skills. Socratic dialogue is illustrated and taught as an accumulating skill throughout the course.

The course meets approximately every two weeks. The Diploma  is awarded on the basis of attendance and the completion of a creative portfolio. Each week the course provides a range of  bespoke resources and activities to build your creative portfolio and ensure you can practice CBT with confidence.

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Lesley Young-Musgrove Park Hospital 

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 Day 1:  Brief history and overview.  definitive characteristics of CBT. The therapeutic alliance. Collaborative case conceptualisation and identification of hot thoughts.

Day 2 : Working with Hot Thoughts and Thought records. How to conduct  strucured CBT sessions

Day 3 : How to construct a CBT Case Formulation and Assessment.   .

DAY 4 :  How to reframe awareness. Socratic Method 1.

 Day 5 Cognitive Strategies for working with schemas and core beliefs.

Day 6 : Longer term CBT view. The experiment method  and behavioural experiments and the Gestalt link. Introducing 'Mindfullness CBT'

Day 7 : Physiological interventions -controlled breathing, relaxation and sleep problems.  Using CBT to treat anxiety. Socratic Method 2

Day 8 :The final two sessions ( in a six session model)  - how to maintain progress. Using CBT to treat depression.

 Day 9 :Maintaining progress. using CBT to treat OCD.

 Day 10 : Furthering Mindfullness perspectives

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To receive extensive further details of the CBT course  please contact the office on our new number 01803 867744 or email:  office@safespaceforcounselling.com

SPACE, Mermaid House, Dolphin Street,Colyton Devon, EX24 6NA