Course: Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CBT

A behavioural experiment could be devised collaboratively between Chris and his therapist to assess any of the identified thoughts highlighted in the previous Step, for example: People find me boring …

We’ve just explored how thinking errors (or cognitive distortions) can often result in a negative vicious cycle or ‘loop’. This makes the low mood or anxiety worse and worse until …

Further sources of support and information There are a number of self-help resources which you may find useful if you are experiencing anxiety or depression or are supporting someone else …

We have now seen what Behavioural Activation might look like – but what is the experience like for the patients who are doing it? In this clip, we hear from …

Graded exposure is, in brief is, a psychological technique developed to help people come face to face with their fears. It helps to break the kinds of vicious cycles we’ve …

Psychoeducation is a very important part of BA (Behavioural Activation) and should happen before a patient is asked to make any behavioural changes. It’s the role of the therapist to …

In order to give a better sense of what BA might look like, we have produced a short simulated video again with Dr Hannah Whitney, playing the role of therapist …

Many people with mental health issues such as depression, report that misunderstanding and stigma make it more difficult to acknowledge their difficulties and seek any help (for fear of discrimination …

Watch Shirley explain how someone without depression might interpret an ambiguous situation (thoughts), and the types of feelings (emotional and physical) and behaviours which may occur. Shirley compares this with …

One of the key differences between those who experience significant anxiety in the form of an anxiety disorder and those who don’t, relates to how information around them is interpreted …

In this video, Professor Shirley Reynolds introduces you to the CBT model using a hot cross bun analogy first used by Christine Padesky. We have seen that anxiety and depression …

Please watch this video, where Professor Reynolds introduces you to CBT and explains how it can be delivered and what difficulties it can be used for. You’ll find out some …

Perceiving the information available to us from our external environment is a complicated process and involves sensing the information that’s available around us, ie collecting this information via our sensory …