Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Fascinated by CBT? Interested to learn powerful new skills? Then this could be the right course for you. It covers an introduction to CBT, automatic thoughts, the importance of dreams, schema therapy and Socratic questioning. This course provides a thorough introduction to CBT and a great opportunity to learn a valuable new skill.

This course is useful for those who may be working in the statutory or voluntary sectors with those who have mental health issues. Nurses, counsellors, prison officers, probation workers, psychotherapists and other mental health workers may find this course invaluable for useful skills and therapeutic interventions.

At UK Open Learning we pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive tutors. Your tutor support will start as soon as you receive your course and will be valid for 12 months. All our tutors are highly qualified with extensive experience in supporting distance learning students. You contact your tutor via email and they are responsible for marking assignments answering your questions and guiding you through the course to ensure you are ready for your examinations.

You should be educated to at least GCSE grade C or above, or have at least 12 months' experience in a position where you are counselling people on a day-to-day basis.

We recommend you spend approximately 110 hours of your time studying for the NCFE Level 4 Understanding Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Award. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Unit 1 – What is CBT? Unit 2 – Automatic Thoughts. Unit 3 – What can a client expect in CBT treatment? Unit 4 – The importance and significance of dreams in CBT. Unit 5 – Schema Therapy. Unit 6 – Socratic questioning. Unit 7 – The Use of Medication.

This course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators ('regulators') for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland.

Students are assessed through a series of tutor marked assignments based on their application of the course content there is no final exam.  The assignments take the form of a series of structured questions. There is no word count for these assignments, however you have to prove to your tutor that you have fully understood the questions asked.