Clinical · CBT
Contextualized CBT Skills for Social Workers
A two-course sequence from foundational CBT skills to disorder-specific and adapted practice, with material conditions, structural harm and cultural meaning treated as part of the formulation.
The sequence
Two courses, 24 modules
- Course 1 · Foundational CBT Skills · 36 hours · Modules 1 to 12 · no prerequisite
- Course 2 · Disorder-Specific and Adapted CBT Practice · 36 hours · Modules 13 to 24 · requires Course 1 or equivalent
- 72CE hours
- 24modules
- Async or livesame curriculum
Live option. A live synchronous version of each course uses the same outcomes, content and assessments. Ask about upcoming live cohorts.
Course 1 · Foundations · 36 hours
Course 1: Foundational Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills for Social Work
This first course develops the shared assessment, formulation and intervention skills used across cognitive behavioural therapies. Learners practise collaborative assessment, contextualized formulation, behavioural and cognitive procedures, Socratic dialogue, behavioural experiments and maintenance planning.
The course treats material conditions, structural harm and cultural meaning as part of the formulation rather than as background. A recurring discipline runs through every module: an accurate appraisal of danger, discrimination or constraint is not a cognitive distortion, and restructuring it is not therapy.
- CE hours
- 36 hours
- Modules
- 12
- Format
- Asynchronous, 12-month access
- Prerequisite
- None
- Level
- Intermediate
See the 12 modules
- CBT as a Social Work Practice Approach
- Assessment and Problem Definition
- Contextualized CBT Formulation
- Goals, Agendas and Session Structure
- Functional Analysis and Behavioural Learning
- Behavioural Activation and Graded Action
- Automatic Thoughts and Cognitive Monitoring
- Socratic Dialogue I: Understanding and Focusing
- Socratic Dialogue II: Collaborative Discovery
- Behavioural Experiments and Exposure Foundations
- Assumptions, Core Beliefs and Schemas
- Integration, Maintenance and Ethical Application
Course 2 · Disorder-specific and adapted practice · 36 hours · requires Course 1
Course 2: Disorder-Specific and Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Practice
This second course applies the foundational skills to specific presentations and to adapted CBT approaches. Learners select among transdiagnostic, modular and disorder-specific models, match interventions to identified maintaining processes, and determine when safety, medical, scope or coordination action is required.
Each module works from a fictional case and asks the same sequence: select the model, formulate process and context, match the intervention, check safety and scope, then monitor and revise. Modules are numbered 13 to 24 in continuity with Course 1.
- CE hours
- 36 hours
- Modules
- 12
- Format
- Asynchronous, 12-month access
- Prerequisite
- Course 1 or equivalent CBT training
- Level
- Intermediate
See the 12 modules
- Selecting among CBT Adaptations
- Depression and Depressive Processes
- Panic, Agoraphobia and Specific Phobias
- GAD and Health Anxiety
- Social Anxiety
- OCD and Hoarding
- Tics, Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours and Gambling
- Trauma and Traumatic Stress
- Eating, Body, Sleep and Somatic Presentations
- Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide and Grief
- Neurodevelopmental and Chronic Pattern Adaptations
- Substance Use and Integrated Treatment Planning
Practise between modules. The CBT Skills Lab has 17 interactive clinical simulations that pair with this sequence.
Accreditation. Continuing education approval for these programs is being sought. Approval status and approving body will be listed here once confirmed. Certificates of completion record the course title, CE hours and completion date; please confirm acceptance with your own regulatory body.
Enrolment
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