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Problem-solving interventions across the life-span at the individual, family and community level using behaviour analysis principles.
Welcome to PSYC457 Cognitive Behavioural Interventions!This course introduces evidence based behavioural and cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches to develop students’ capacity to understand, design, and apply learning-based strategies to support wellbeing and behaviour change across diverse settings and populations, including across the lifespan. Students will learn core principles from the science of learning and behaviour, how these principles help us to understand experiences that affect wellbeing and behaviour, and how they inform cognitive and behaviour approaches and strategies such as behavioural activation, exposure, relaxation training, emotion regulation, and cognitive change strategies. Informed by an understanding of learning and behaviour, students will also learn how to collaboratively identify meaningful areas for change and how progress can be recognised and monitored over time.The course integrates theoretical understanding with opportunities to explore and apply concepts through scenario-based learning. Teaching emphasises culturally responsive and Te Tiriti o Waitangi-informed practice, integrating Māori, Pacific, lived experience, and other perspectives on wellbeing. Within this course, interventions are understood as collaborative, learning-based approaches developed with people in the context of their relationships and environments to support meaningful change.
The objectives of the course are to: 1. Integrate ethical, legal, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, cultural safety, and lived experience considerations into cognitive behavioural approaches to supporting wellbeing and behaviour change, with attention to applications in context, across the lifespan, including for children, young people, and whānau.2. Explain how core mechanisms of learning and behaviour inform the understanding of experiences that impact wellbeing and inform the design and application of cognitive and behavioural approaches and strategies.3. Use the scientific understanding of learning and behaviour to identify meaningful areas for change and ways of recognising and reviewing progress over time.4. Demonstrate the considered use of selected, evidence-based cognitive and behavioural strategies within simulated or scenario-based contexts.5. Critically evaluate research evidence relevant to cognitive behavioural intervention approaches, considering limitations, individual differences, and contextual fit.
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
Carolin Ritter
Kennerley, H., Kirk, J., & Westbrook, D; An introduction to cognitive behaviour therapy: Skills and applications ; 3rd Edition; Sage Publications (The course text is available through the UC Library as a High Demand item (3-day loan). Students based outside of Christchurch can borrow High Demand items through the UC Library's free delivery service and receive an extended 10-day loan period).
Craske, M. G; Cognitive-behavioral therapy ; 2nd Edition; American Psychological Association, 2017 (The book can be accessed online through the UC library: https://libcat.canterbury.ac.nz/EdsRecord/cat10374a,can.ebs14910482e?sid=95836846).
Domestic fee $1,247.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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