Training
Registration closes @12 noon on 10.07.25
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a well-established intervention for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties yet there are often long waiting lists and limited access. There is good evidence for `behavioural interventions’ as stand alone psychological treatments that improve recovery. This training will teach behavioural principles and interventions to increase access to psychologically informed care for staff wanting to supercharge their practice.
These workshops will teach high quality behavioural techniques including recovery orientated goal setting, behavioural activation and graded exposure with the aim of supporting clients to get back to doing the things they care about. The workshops can also act as a refresher to those already working in this way and will provide an update on the latest evidence and best practice for working actively with clients including those with more complex presentations.
Key learning objectives & skills:
· To understand recovery principals and practice goal setting using SMART principles
· To understand and be able to develop and use maintenance formulations for anxiety and depression actively with clients
· To understand the principles of graded exposure and practice developing an anxiety ladder and graded exposure plan
· To understand how anxiety affects us and provide good working psychoeducation for clients.
· To practice evidence based anxiety management strategies
· To understand the principles of behavioural activation and effectively review behavioural activation plans and mood monitoring
· To understand national guidance and key skills in working more effectively with complex presentations
Key skills
This is a clinical skills workshop, and the emphasis will be on participants undertaking an active role in practicing the skills discussed throughout the day.
These workshops are targeted at practitioners working with a severe and enduing adult population in community, inpatient and specialist settings. This will suit both qualified and unqualified staff with any level of clinical experience, either as an opportunity to learn new skills or to update and refine current practice.
You might also be interested in combining this two-day workshop with our trauma informed care workshop on 2 July 2025 to complete your core skills in working in a psychologically informed way.
New: Workshop recording is now available to attendees
By attending this workshop I understand I am giving my consent for the workshop to be video recorded and for this video recording to be available to people attending the workshop live and for it to be sold separately, for the amount of time determined by OCTC and outlined in the purchase agreement. My name, if displayed onscreen, and my image will make up part of this recording. Recordings are the property of OCTC and making copies of these recordings or sharing login details is not permitted. Please do not reveal details which may compromise the anonymity of clients.
The recording will be available to view for a period of three months.
Presenter
Sarah Mansfield, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Sarah Mansfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years experience working with psychosis in the NHS. She has worked in a variety of NHS settings including Child & Adolescent, Community Adult, Acute Care and First Episode in Psychosis services. Sarah is a BABCP accredited practitioner and supervisor specialising in CBT for Psychosis and trauma treatments. Sarah currently holds a clinical position in a community mental health team alongside offering consultation, supervision and training on a part time basis with OCTC. Sarah is interested in the ongoing development of CBT for Psychosis and third wave CBT including Compassion Focused Therapy
Additional Information
Cancellation & changes policy
If you cancel more than 14 days prior to your booked event, we will refund your fee minus a charge of 15% to cover our administration costs. We regret that cancellations 14 days or less before the booked event cannot be refunded or changed/transferred.
If you wish to change/transfer your booking after confirmation we will do our best to accommodate you if you notify us 14 days prior to your booked event, and if there is space to do so. However there will be an administration charge of £15 per change/transfer.
Confidentiality
Workshops often contain clinical material. This is always anonymised as far as possible but delegates are none the less reminded to respect confidentiality.
All that is discussed in your therapy sessions will be treated as confidential, with the following exceptions.
We are required to seek supervision by our professional body (The British Psychological Society or equivalent) as a means of ensuring good practice. We will usually inform your referrer of your progress, but the details that we disclose will be discussed with you. We do have a statutory obligation to break confidentiality under rare circumstances, namely, if we believe that a client is of danger to themselves or to others (under the Mental Health Act, 2001) or if we believe that a child is at actual risk of physical or sexual abuse (The Children Act, Section 47, 1989).
If we felt that it would be helpful to request additional medical, social or legal information, we could only do this with your consent. Similarly, should another medical, social or legal professional request information from us, we would not release this without your consent.
Disclaimer
OCTC makes every effort to ensure that this programme is delivered as advertised. However, should a presenter have to cancel, we will endeavour to find another suitable presenter. We will inform attendees as soon as is reasonably practical and, if requested, will offer a refund. In the rare event that we are unable to substitute a presenter, we may cancel a workshop and refund payments already made by attendees. OCTC will not refund travel and accommodation costs that attendees may incur.
All the workshops in this programme are carried out by highly experienced therapists and trainers. The individual presenter is responsible for the content of the workshop and any views expressed do not necessarily represent those of OCTC.
Although highly informative, none of the open workshops or workshop series confer a formal qualification or assurance of competence in CBT (or a specialist area of CBT) since we are unable to assess attendee competency within the training event. However, credit and award-bearing courses that lead to formal qualifications are offered by OCTC in conjunction with the University of Oxford. More about these courses is available on our website www.octc.uk
Levels of competence
Before booking a place on a workshop, please ensure that it is pitched at the appropriate level of competence for you. The guide to levels is as follows:
Basic
Basic workshops are for people from a variety of backgrounds, who have at least one year’s clinical experience. Cognitive behavioural knowledge is not necessary for attendance at these workshops, though in practice, a number of attendees will have some skills in the area, and are refreshing/updating their knowledge.
Intermediate
Intermediate workshops are directed towards people who already have knowledge of CBT, and experience in using cognitive formulations and treatment methods – for instance, they are able to identify and test automatic thoughts, and design behavioural experiments. Most participants will be using CBT as part of their clinical practice, and may still be acquiring new CBT skills.
Advanced
Advanced courses are directed towards those professionals who use CBT routinely as part of their clinical practice. They have probably undertaken a significant number of training courses and/or workshops, and use a broad range of cognitive behavioural strategies to work with a range of presentations at varying levels of complexity.
Making reservations
Bookings can only be considered confirmed after we have received your online registration or application form and payment (or invoicing details, including an official purchase order document).
The registration closing date for each workshop is shown on the workshop description page. Please note that no applications received after this deadline will be permitted.
If you are booking a workshop place for someone else, you must complete your own details in the billing field, but ENTER THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS NAME/ADDRESS in the shipping field. If you wish to order items using a paper order form instead of online, you can view or download an order form in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Once downloaded, print it out, fill it in, and send off with your payment [cheque made payable to OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST] to the address on the form.
Refreshments
The cost of the workshops includes hot drinks on arrival, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not usually lunch unless stated. However, for workshops that do include lunch, if you have any special dietary requirements please let us know at the time of application.
Accessibility requirements
We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. If you have any particular needs, please contact us
prior to booking.