IAPT (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies)
Post-Graduate Diploma in High Intensity Psychological Therapies
The IAPT High Intensity programme is intended to train competent evidence-based psychotherapists who will treat Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care services. In the current phase of the overall IAPT project, the course is exclusively focused on Cognitive and Behavioural interventions; as the evidence-base for other psychotherapies grows, we anticipate incorporating these into our psychotherapies training portfolio.
The course focuses on both practical clinical skills, via experiential workshops and clinical supervision delivered by experienced CBT practitioners, and the theories and evidence underpinning intervention, via guided reading and expert-led seminars. The course philosophy builds on the traditions of gold-standard CBT programmes across the U.K. (e.g. Newcastle, Oxford, Salford), but will give deliver greater depth of training across a more specified field than those benchmark courses.
Trainees will be at the University 2 days per week and in service delivery sites applying their new learning for the remainder of their working week. One day of the course will be given over to supervision, seminars and library time; the second day will be for skills workshops. Assessment is via clinical recordings, case studies and a theoretical essay.
For further information regarding the High Intensity course please contact Peter Armstrong, Programme Director
