Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CBT Course - University of Reading
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Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
5 weeks
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
USD 74 / per course *
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Introduction
Improve your understanding of depression and anxiety and find out more about an effective and evidence-based treatment: CBT.
Anxiety and depression are terms discussed widely, in different media and amongst family and friends. But what do those labels actually mean?
On this five-week course from the University of Reading, you will explore what it means to have anxiety or depression and how they are identified. The course will also demonstrate the leading evidence-based treatment–Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
It’s important to emphasise that this course is not intended to be a self-help treatment for anyone experiencing anxiety or depression, nor can it be used to formally diagnose yourself or anyone else.
When would you like to start?
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Describe the key signs and symptoms of depression and identify how a depressive disorder differs from simply feeling low or down.
- Describe how a depressive disorder is diagnosed and identify an appropriate assessment tool.
- Describe the key signs and symptoms of the most frequently occurring anxiety disorders and identify how anxiety disorders differ from simply feeling worried or nervous.
- Describe how anxiety disorders are diagnosed and identify an appropriate assessment tool.
- Identify the most common stereotypes surrounding anxiety and depression and evaluate them on the basis of current knowledge.
- Describe how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be delivered and identify the types of difficulties that it can help with.
- Summarise how what we know about perception (making sense of the world around us) can help us to understand the CBT approach better.
- Identify the key components of a Cognitive Behavioural approach to understanding anxiety and depression.
- Describe how specific kinds of behaviours and thought patterns can maintain difficulties in anxiety and depression and identify key CBT techniques which are used to address these in therapy.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Michelle Lee
I head up a number of educational outreach projects and am interested in spreading knowledge about evidence-based therapies for common mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression.
Faith Orchard
I am a psychologist conducting research on anxiety and depression in young people. My work focuses on how young people develop mental health problems, and how we can prevent or treat them.
Shirley Reynolds
I’m a clinical psychologist. Most of my work has been the research on depression and anxiety and how to improve treatments. We need to make effective treatment available to everyone @DrS_Reynolds
Who developed the course?
University of Reading
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Ideal Students
Who is the course for?
This beginner’s course is aimed at anyone with an interest in mental illness generally, and anxiety and depression in particular. This may include:
- those who are currently experiencing or have previously experienced emotional difficulties,
- family and friends of those who are experiencing emotional difficulties,
- primary (or other) healthcare professionals who have a frontline role in detecting mental health difficulties and offering appropriate support and guidance to those affected.
Curriculum
What topics will you cover?
- Making sense of the world around us
- Understanding depression and the CBT approach
- Understanding anxiety and the CBT approach
- Tackling the ‘B’ in CBT: Addressing unhelpful behaviours in anxiety and depression
- Tackling the ‘C’ in CBT: Addressing unhelpful thinking in anxiety and depression