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Becoming a CBT Therapist takes prospective Cognitive Behavioural Therapists on a journey from applying for a place in a training course through to navigating the challenges of CBT training and developing in their career once qualified.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Making the Switch 1. What is a CBT Therapist? 2. Pathways to Becoming a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist 3. Charting your Path: Navigating the Journey to Becoming a CBT Therapist Across the UK 4. Maximising your Chances at Interview 5. Leaving behind your 'Previous Professional Self' - The Challenges of Role Transition 6. Am I Well Suited to the Role? Understanding Some of the Factors that Influence our 'Alignment' with CBT 7. Managing as a Trainee with Lived Experience of Mental Health Difficulties
Part 2: Acquiring & Consolidating your CBT Knowledge and Skills 9. Making the Most of Supervision 10. Maximising the Training Experience through Shadowing and 'In vivo' Work 11. Developing Essential Competencies in Culturally Inclusive Practice 12. Embedding Inclusive Principles within your CBT Practice: Working with Autism, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation 13. Being an Effective CBT Therapist: What our Clients Need From Us 14. First-hand Accounts of Making it Through Training 15. A Week in the Life of a Qualified CBT Therapist
Part 3:16. Get out of your Head and into the Chair: Bringing CBT to Life through Chairwork 17. "It's not You, it's Me": Addressing Therapist Schemas During CBT Training and Beyond 18. How can we Help Others if we Cannot Help Ourselves? The Importance of Self-Practice and Self-Reflection within CBT Training 19. Keeping the Shore in Sight - How to be Flexible in your Practice whilst Retaining the Core Principles of CBT 20. Working in Specialist Services 21. Training in Third Wave and Integrative Approaches 22. Supervising other CBT Practitioners 23. Venturing into Private Practice 24. From Surviving to Thriving: Going the Distance as a CBT Therapist Afterword
About the author
Jason Roscoe is Course Director for the CBT training programmes at Bangor University. He has previously worked as a senior lecturer in CBT at the University of Cumbria, and a course accreditation manager for the Bristish Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). He has published research on CBT training and supervision and also operates a small private practice.
Summary
Becoming a CBT Therapist takes prospective Cognitive Behavioural Therapists on a journey from applying for a place in a training course through to navigating the challenges of CBT training and developing in their career once qualified.
