Program Overview
The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy High Intensity Postgraduate Diploma at University of Birmingham is a Master programme in Psychology over 12 months, delivered On-campus. This programme equips graduates with advanced knowledge and practical skills for professional and academic careers in the field.
Students gain a rigorous grounding in both the theoretical foundations and applied dimensions of psychology. The programme combines coursework, research components, and practical projects that develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and specialist expertise relevant to industry and research needs.
Graduates of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy High Intensity Postgraduate Diploma programme are well-prepared for careers in academia, industry, government, and the private sector across United Kingdom and internationally. The programme provides an internationally recognised qualification within the Bologna higher education framework.
Key Program Features
- Duration: 12 months
- Language of instruction: English
- Study mode: On-campus
- Tuition: GBP 9,500 (Tuition (Year)) — EU/EEA students
- Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy High Intensity Postgraduate Diploma programme are prepared for diverse careers in psychology:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Organisational Psychologist
- Researcher
- Counsellor
- Human Resources Specialist
- Behaviour Analyst
Program Curriculum
Course Structure
- There are three courses, each of one year\x92s duration, based at the Universities of Birmingham, Coventry and Staffordshire providing a Postgraduate Diploma in CBT. Each course starts week commencing the 18th January 2016. The awards provide an excellent foundation for achieving accreditation with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
- Individuals successfully completing these awards develop the theoretical knowledge, reflective abilities and practical skills to become skilled and independent CBT practitioners. These aims are achieved through a combination of didactic teaching, skills practice with feedback and supervised clinical practice.
- To enter training, individuals must hold a relevant core mental health profession or be able to demonstrate the equivalent knowledge and experience. They must also have access to a work setting in which it is possible to undertake at least two days per week of face to face, supervised CBT practice and audio/video record client sessions for assessment in the academic setting.
- To equip practitioners to offer \x91high intensity\x92 CBT for people with moderate and moderate to severe depression and anxiety at Step 3 within the primary care settings.
- To equip practitioners to function as skilled, and relatively independent cognitive behaviour therapists, in accordance with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) guidelines for good practice.
- To equip practitioners to reach the necessary standards required for provisional accreditation as a CBT practitioner to the BABCP on successful completion of the course.
- To facilitate the development of a critical knowledge of the theory and research relating to CBT.
Admission Requirements
Academic Requirements
Core funding for this Diploma comes from West Midlands NHS and the course is designed to provide postgraduate training for a group of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) high intensity cognitive behavioural therapists, and, as such, is only primarily to West Midlands NHS staff. Enquiries and applications are welcome from privately funding individuals and organisations, provided certain criteria relating to access to appropriate clinical work and CBT supervision can be met.
More information can be found via the NHS website.
Applications are welcome from those able to self-fund or from those who would be able to access funding from organisations outside of the NHS. Such applicants would need to demonstrate their ability to access a placement in which the clinical components of the training would be undertaken, as well as access to clinical supervision from a BABCP accredited therapist. For further information about this option, please contact the Programme Administrator on cbtprogramme@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
We operate our selection procedures in line with NHS Values Based Recruitment.
Tuition & Financial Information
Tuition Fee
GBP 9,500 (Tuition (Year)) — EU/EEA students
Tuition fees: GBP 9,500 (Tuition (Year)) — EU/EEA students
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Contact University of Birmingham directly for scholarship, grant, and financial aid information for this programme. Many European universities offer merit-based and need-based funding for international and domestic students.
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- Language English
- Duration 12 months
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