Q&A Session on CBT Training on Facebook

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•  Paul Crawte So, how much does it cost and how long does it take?
• Paul Crawte Also... how is the course delivered ? Attendance somewhere? Mail outs....

 Skills Development Service Ltd Hi Paul. The modules cost between £20 and £160 each (depending on which are taught and which are self directed.) The overall cost if purchased in advance is £5195+ VAT. You will not find a cheaper open access route to covering training for Accrediation. The period over which it is completed is up to the delegate because it is modular. However, the shortest period for completion would be 12-18 mths.

Skills Development Service Ltd To Paul Crawte: Hi again Paul. The course is a combination. The dierect skills taught modules (200+ hours) are delievered in Central London at the British Psychological Society. The self directed case formulation modules are emailed, completed by yourself and sent back to tutors for assessment and feedback. The self directed raeding modules are sent by email and there are online quizzes which are used to evidence knowledge obtained. Hopefully this clarifies.

• Alex Grant I like the look of your courses, but not sure I am able to commit to the full Diploma. Can I just go to the individual courses from time to time for CPD and see where it takes me after a while?

 Skills Development Service Ltd To Alex Grant: You can just attend the modules for CPD purposes without any commitment. We know that some delegates have already expressed interest in them in their own right irrespective of wishing apply for Accreditation. In other words there is no commitment

•  Skills Development Service Ltd ANONYMOUS QUESTIONER “I am shortly about to retire from teaching and youth development work at the age of 61. I want to retrain as a BACBT accredited therapist. Using your route how quickly can this be achieved, and how many hours of supervision (at your charge of £45 per hour) need to be completed? Thank you”
  ANSWER “Hi. How quickly Accreditation can be achieved varies according to previous experience / qualifications and is difficult to be explicit about. However...there are certain teaching qualifications and social work qualifications that are considered core professions OR you can go via the KSA route which would be based on your CPD throughout your career. Assuming this was covered,you could cover the taught parts of the course within 12-18mths. Additionally you would need to be able to demonstrate a minimum of 200 hours of CBT practice that had received 40 hours of supervision. Hopefully this clarifies things”
•  Alexis Khlay I'm not sure if I'm eligible for BABCP accreditation. Can I still attend the courses and can anybody help me to check my eligibility? Thanks, Alexis Khlay

 Skills Development Service Ltd For Alexis. Hi Alexis. There are 3 elements to Accreditation. 1. Core Profession/ KSA 2. Training 3. Supervised practice. We can provide an opinion and advice on all three both in advance as well as "hand hold" you at the time of application for eligibility through our Accreditation Support Programme. Because this can sometimes be a complex issue we have to charge for this unfortunately. HOWEVER, should you decide not to proceed with training after our intial feedback we refund the fee for the Accreditation Support Package (minus a cancellation fee)

•  Gemma Phillips-Pike Hi - just wondering how the practice of CBT works on this course - i.e. is it assumed you are in private practice with a supervisor as I guess you will need to have the opportunities to practice the skills? Also, if this is the case, how many client hours are required to obtain the Diploma? Thank you.
•  Gemma Phillips-Pike Sorry, just seen your response above which answers my question - 200 hours with 40 hours supervision. Can the supervision be with any accredited supervisor or with SDS?

 Skills Development Service Ltd It can be with any CBT Accredited Therapist not simply SDS'. However, it can not simply be with any Accredited Supervisor eg. BACP Accredited (rather than BABCP). The BABCP lists such Accredited CBT Therapists on their website www.babcp.com and you are free to approach them. Expect a cost of £80-£120 / hr. SDS is offering group supervision which fulfills Accrediation requirements for £45 / hour. Hope this helps.

BABCP Home Page

www.babcp.com

•  Skills Development Service Ltd A question by EMAIL: My question is I have almost completed the PG cert with Anglia Ruskin Univ in Cambridge and would be looking to do the second year for the PG Dip.
  
  Q. Is the PG Cert transferable to your course?
  
  What days would the course be offered?
  Where would the course be held?
  What are the costs entailed and what support systems are in place if needed?
  Would there be support on offer to students who need to take KSA route in getting their accreditation with the BABCP.

 Skills Development Service Ltd IN REPLY TO THE EMAIL QUESTION : There is no requirement to start again with our Diploma should you wish to transfer from your existing University course. If you purchase our Accreditation Support Package we will provide you with an assessed opinion of what additional moodules you need to complete in order for you to apply for Accreditation. The cost of this is £195+VAT (or included for free if you sign up for the whole Diploma).This covers any advice regarding KSA. Wherever possible, SDS will attempt to help you meet any outstanding KSA requirements but can not guarentee this as it obviously depends on circumstance. If we can not we will sign post. Please note that the Accreditation Support Package also covers ongoing email and telephone support through the process of Accreditation application. Courses are run in Central London, typically at The British Psychological society (close to Moorgate Tube). Hope this helps

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NEW: Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from SDS

We are holding a LIVE Facebook Question and Answer session on the CBT Diploma at 10.00 am on Thursday 1 December.
To access this simply start asking your questions as comments at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skills-Development-Service-Ltd/148084035204831 and the SDS team will happily answer them.
If you cannot make that time – please feel free to leave your questions there now.

Read about SDS Diploma in CBT course here: http://skillsdevelopment.co.uk/CBT

James Hillman Tribute

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James Hillman, a charismatic therapist and best-selling author whose theories about the psyche helped revive interest in the ideas of Carl Jung, animating the so-called men’s movement in the 1990s and stirring the pop-cultural air, died on Thursday 27 October 2011, at his home in Thompson, Conn. He was 85.

James Hillman was one of the most inspirational contemporary thinkers in psychotherapy field. His thought-provoking and soulful ideas will be greatly missed.

Read New York Times tribute: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/health/james-hillman-therapist-in-mens-movement-dies-at-85.html

Watch DVD trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFng0WCJ8X8&feature=related

Buy James Hillman's DVDs: http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/James-Hillman-Set

Our video tribute to this extraordinary man:

Where goes Motivational Interviewing After 'Payment By Results"?

I've had a fascinating three days working with some of the pilot Drug & Alcohol Services for Payment By Results (PbR). This is the government initiative designed to shift UK drugs services towards tying funding to an abstinence/recovery model accompanied by evidencing documentation - or in the words of the organisational mantra I came across "No TOPs, no clients, no job!". TOPs (Treatment Outcome Profiles) is the evidencing paperwork. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of this policy switch within the drugs field, I'm particularly interested in it's implications for Motivational Interviewing training (www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/seminars.php?courseid=5 )

Most managers I talked to were worried that Motivational Interviewing (MI) would be swept aside by the new recovery model. It would be seen as irrelevant in the face of increased compulsion to abstain. I disagreed. PbR is interested in abstinence outcomes and on this basis MI is one of the few games in town.Few other approaches match it's researched outcomes. Plus in the current financial climate it's important to recognise that "a sprinkling" of MI is often sufficient to effect significant changes in outcome with moderate effect sizes. The issue becomes instead whether there is a sufficient MI lobby in the UK to argue it's undoubted virtues and it's invaluable contribution to outcome or whether MI is seen as an expensive extra ignored in a race to the bottom in terms of costs.

Foetal (Fetal) Alcohol Syndrome Interview

Why Client Choice Determines Psychotherapy Outcomes

Placebos have long been seen as an irritating confounding factor in medical research that needs to be controlled. It's therapeutic sister "Non-specific effects" in the psychotherapy field has also been relegated to a factor to be controlled in recent years. And yet, there is considerable research highlighting the substantial role such factors play over and above specific therapeutic effects. Recent research by Professor Michael Hyland at Plymouth University suggests a mechanism behind non-specific effects which has big practical implications for therapists. Put briefly he has discovered that one of the key mechanisms within placebo is the degree to which the proposed "therapy" is explained or perceived in ways which are consistent with client values and goals. This is independent of whether the client actually believes the "therapy" will work. This has big implications. Firstly it explains the discrepancy that often occurs between RCT therapy results and "on-the-ground" therapeutic effectiveness. Secondly, it suggests that client choice of the therapy they use will have a big impact on outcome. I am much more likely to choose a therapy (as a client) that is presented or perceived as being more consistent with my values. It equally suggests that therapists' statements such as " the client isn't very psychologically minded" or " Mandated clients don't change" or "Clients need to be socialised into the therapeutic model" MAY in fact have a more than a grain of truth in them, even if the phrasing isn't quite right!

Thought For The Weekend on Motivational Interviewing

In a country where resources, both personal and public are likely to be shrinking for the immediate future, do skills like Motivational Interviewing become MORE relevant (because of their impact on health behaviours) or LESS relevant (because we will only end up working with clients who are already at an Action stage) ?www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves make all the difference

In the middle of Tim Wilson's Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change. Wilson's thesis is one familiar both to CBT practitioners as well as Narrative Therapy & Solution Focused folk, namely the way we integrate ourselves into the narrative of our existing circumstances has a mega-impact on our emotions and behaviours. What's unusual about Wilson's book is that he makes it sound soooooooo easy to develop techniques and interventions to facilitate this. Which in honesty it is.....as long as we escape the prison of thinking everything we do should be so complicated. Will certainly recommend this on both our Solution Focused and CBT training courses www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk

NEW Glasgow CBT certificate course

After being away from Glasgow for a while, we're returning with our BPS Approved Introductory Certificate in CBT.Please pass details on www. Skillsdevelopment.co.uk/seminars.php?coursed=69. Thanks Paul

Book writing

Just finished my chapter on Milton Friedman. It's interesting how there's so little research looking at the complimentary processes of conscious and unconscious problem solving