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CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: principles and practice

by johannataylor — last modified 2008-02-18 02:26 PM

Moving clients foward: one-to-one work

This course is available training through Homeless Link’s short course programme and can be delivered direct to your organisation as in-house training . If you feel that a currently unscheduled or unlisted course would meet a training need in your region please email training@homelesslink.org.uk with full details.

Dates

18/19 & 25/26 March 2008, London

after march 2008, this course will only run in-house

Outline

This new course, developed and facilitated by Dr Nick Maguire, Deputy Director, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, University of Southampton, will examine the principles, formulation and basic behavioural skills involved in CBT and style of CBT delivery. The course is organised over four consecutive Mondays in order that participants may practice skills in between sessions and review their progress regularly.

This course is suitable for

Front line and management workers in any field of homelessness work. Front line workers should be able to use some of the principles and practices, and management staff – as well as using the skills – will be able to make decisions about how their service delivery may need to be adapted to make most use of the developments in practice.

Entry requirements

Delegates are required to attend all four days, and participate in the 'homework' tasks in between sessions. This is necessary if delegates are to have a realistic chance of learning new skills.

By the end of the course, delegates should be able to

  • understand the cognitive model
  • use basic CBT formulation techniques
  • practice basic behavioural change skills in a style consistent with CBT
  • understand challenging behaviours within a cognitive framework
  • implement basic behavioural strategies which are designed to enable behaviour change in clients

Dates

Trainer profile

Dr Nick Maguire

Nick Maguire did his first degree and Doctoral training at Southampton University after having worked in the learning disabilities field for several years.

His research thesis centred on paranoia specifically and severe mental health problems generally, and his first post after qualification reflected these interests, working in a community mental health team. After a period working for the School of Medicine in Southampton, Nick was offered the opportunity to work with the Society of St James and the local Rough Sleepers Initiative (now the Street Homeless Prevention Team) in setting up a small four-bed project with entrenched rough sleepers using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This project was partly funded by the ODPM between September 2001 and March 2006.

Nick currently works for the University of Southampton as the Deputy Director for the Diploma / MSc in Cognitive Therapy for Severe and Enduring Mental Health Problems, teaching, researching and supervising in this area. He recently completed a piece of research with St Mungos looking at the prevalence of personality disorders in a hostel population, and intends to continue to research the links between severe mental health problems and repeated tenancy breakdown.

 
 
 
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