1. On completion of this module, you will be able to develop specific treatment plans incorporating existing evidence base for anxiety and depression and promoting the client’s capacity for adjustment and self-management.
Application

2. On completion of this module, you will be able to manage complex issues arising in Long Term Health Conditions presentations.
Learning

3. On completion of this module, you will be able to demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving therapeutic problems.
Problem Solving

4. On completion of this module, you will be able to practise as ‘scientist practitioners’, advancing their knowledge and understanding and developing new skills to a high level. To reflect on own developmental needs in relation to understanding long term health conditions.
Knowledge and Understanding,
Reflection

Based on national curriculum requirements:

- Aetiology of the long-term physical health condition
- Medical treatment of the long-term physical health condition
- Understand the bi-directional interactions between physical health and psychological processes
- Medication and its impact on cognitive processing
Specific cognitive behavioural interventions for each given long-term physical health condition

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:
Sixteen teaching sessions, 50% focus on theory, and 50% focus on the development of skills acquisition.
Independent learning activities to explore theory behind long term health conditions.

Cole, F., MacDonald, H., Carus, C. and Howden-Leach, H. (2005). Overcoming Chronic Pain. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd.

Teaching Rooms with multimedia equipment.

Current placement with an IAPT setting as a High Intensity CBT Therapist