Exposure therapy can be used to confront fears and phobias. The therapist will slowly expose you to the things that provoke fear or anxiety, while providing guidance on how to cope with them in the moment.

Homework is also part of the process, so you’ll be asked to fill out worksheets, a journal, or perform certain tasks between sessions.

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You will need to register three referees who can give an informed view of your academic ability and suitability for the course. The How to apply

You may want to talk to your doctor or other healthcare providers for recommendations. Practitioners may include:

MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Clinical) allows students to benefit from the range of specialist teaching available in the new course structure and to obtain a high-level of proficiency in implementing evidence-based treatment across a wide range of clinical presentations, and in disseminating these treatments as trainers and supervisors to other practitioners.

Over time, you’ll learn CBT techniques to acknowledge and challenge thoughts that get in your way.

It can sometimes be hard to describe what exact situation occurred when your patient describes their automatic thought to you weeks after the event. By that time, the patient often has had several days to think about their actions-thoughts-behaviours, and it can be Mindfulness techniques easily to over-rationalize those thoughts.

You 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.

They’ll likely spend most of the first session asking questions and getting to know you and your thought processes so treatment can be customized for you.

Where possible your academic supervisor will not change for the duration of your course. However, it may be necessary to assign a new academic supervisor during the course of study or before registration for reasons which might include illness, sabbatical leave, parental leave or change in employment.

How It Works CBT integrates behavioral theories and cognitive theories to conclude that the way people perceive a situation determines their reaction more than the actual reality of the situation does.

You will help the patient evaluate the validity of her thoughts through an examination of the evidence. They should be able to test the thoughts more directly through behavioural experiments, where they initiate plans with friends.

You have a precise, fixed idea of how you or others should behave, and you overestimate how bad it is that these expectations are not met.