Course summary

The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (October/November 2022). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas PGCert - Applications are open once every two years. The information provided has been retained to provide an indication of the course content in previous years. Fees and costs are only valid for the year which is shown and will usually increase annually. 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.