Skip to content
Skip to navigation menu

Prospective Students

Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (PgDip/PgCert)

n/a (Full-time) / 2 years (Part-time) / n/a (Distance / E-Learning)

Course Aims

To provide a high quality postgraduate training in CBT for professionals working in mental health.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Description

The Certificate programme offers skills-based training days to introduce participants to the fundamentals of CBT and provide training on CBT with specific disorders. The Diploma programme further develops participants skills via 14 specialist supervision sessions. Assessment for the Diploma programme includes an assessed therapy tape. The syllabus for both programmes is based on the Roth & Pilling competency framework for CBT with anxiety disorders and depression. The programmes focus on CBT with adults although we also welcome practitioners working with other groups.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapies literature

Course Structure and Start Dates

Postgraduate Certificate in Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies: contains of 14 training days and has its first intake in March 2012.

Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies: contains of 14 specialist supervision sessions and has its first intake in January 2013.

Available Modules

Modules for the Certificate programme:

Additional modules for the diploma programme:

Special Features

Both programmes have been written in consultation with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. During the first year of the programmes they will be submitted for BABCP accreditation at Level 1. The programmes are designed to help people towards individual practitioner accreditation with BABCP.

Skills Acquired

Graduates will have gained skills in evaluating evidence, formulation, critical analysis, collaboration, communication, forming effective working relationships, using change methods, evaluation of interventions, reflection. These can be used to provide effective therapy as well as to assist in other work contexts.

Career Prospect

Graduates from the programmes will have evidence of skills in Cognitive Behavioural Therapies.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must be graduates and possess a professional qualification in a health or social care field where they had the opportunity to engage in clinical practice.

Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to pass either IELTS/TOEFL exams, obtaining a minimum score of IELTS band 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each category or 570 in TOEFL (230 for computer-based marking).

Tuition Fees:

  • UK & EU Full Time  
    £1,200.00
    An additional £1,500 for anyone wanting to proceed to Diploma stage

Next intake: March 2012 and January 2013

School Contact

Name: Louise Waddington  

Telephone: +44 (0) 29 2020 6465 

Fax:  

Email: Louise.Waddington@wales.nhs.uk  

School Website: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/index.html

More information

Your recent courses

Related links

Student Views

“I came to Cardiff first and foremost for the quality of the research group that I work with. Research is competitive at an international level and the group’s multidisciplinary approach provides a stimulating and fruitful environment. Moreover, Cardiff itself is a pleasant place, allowing for more than just school, school and school. In the future I would like to progress within academia and to eventually be able to lead a research group, while having the opportunity to teach.”
Guillaume Poirier (PhD in Psychology)

Read more student views