The learning experience
About this course
Explore worry and rumination through substantial reading, worked clinical conversations and evolving fictional cases. Follow assessment, formulation, intervention selection and review.
Each of the six modules ends with a knowledge check and explanatory feedback. There are no compulsory written goals or reflections. Save your Certificate of Completion and course reference; a Clinical Learning Plan is optional.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Distinguish productive reflection and problem solving from repetitive thinking by considering function, flexibility and consequences.
- Assess maintaining responses, functioning, context and alternative explanations.
- Construct a provisional functional formulation and explain it collaboratively.
- Choose an intervention linked to the formulation and the client’s priorities.
- Plan and review an agreed behavioural experiment with appropriate limits.
- Revise your approach when information or outcomes challenge the initial account.
- Identify a specific, reviewable change in clinical practice.
- Who this is for
- Designed for psychologists with foundational knowledge of assessment, formulation and cognitive behavioural approaches. Other suitably trained mental health practitioners may also find the course relevant. Provisional psychologists should use appropriate supervision.
- Estimated duration
- Self-paced · six reading modules
- 6 modules
- 6 lessons
- At your own pace
A learning experience you can return to
- Interactive lessons and practical exercises
- Lesson progress saved to your account
- Certificate of Completion and a personalised learning plan
Personal reflections stay in the browser where you write them. They do not transfer between devices.