Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (120 credits)

A person may be admitted as a student who has a professional qualification that enables them to work in the mental health services, such as clinical psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, or counselling, and will either be employed in a primary care setting or have managerial support for access to patients in primary care settings. Persons without a professional training (such as graduate mental health workers) or PWP's will be admitted under the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Knowledge Skills and Attitude protocol (BABCP KSA). PWP's need to have been qualified and working as a PWP for two years to be considered for the course.  Except with the permission of the Faculty it will be a condition of registration that a student is to be an employee of the National Health Service or of an employer deemed to be equivalent.

The programme of study will be pursued for one year full-time. Supervised clinical practice will be for a minimum of three days per week in the students work place throughout the programme of study, with a minimum of 70 hours clinical supervision and a total of 200 hours clinical CBT contact.

A student who fails in any part of the examination may be permitted to retake that part of the examination on one occasion only.  Should the second submission fail, the student will be asked to submit any mitigating circumstances for the Exam Board to consider.  If the Board upholds the presence of mitigating circumstances, then a third and final submission is requested.  The second submission will be deemed not assessed and does not count towards the accrued fail total.  If mitigating circumstances are not upheld then the second fail stands.  The Exam Board will then take action under the Progress of Students regulations.  Should a trainee accrue two fails or borderline fails in any one module at any one time then the Exam Board will take action under the Progress of Students regulations.

A student will undertake clinical work to enable the production of a Practice Portfolio which needs to be passed to pass the course.

Assessments will include:

a) an OSCE

b) assessment of clinical competence in the workplace

c) two case studies

d) one case based literature review

e) assessment of clinical competence in the University and

f) engagement in SP/SR and clinical supervision.

The programme of study will be pursued for one year by a full time student.  A single extension to registration of one year is the maximum.  Supervised practice in CBT in IAPT services will be for a period of three days per week throughout the programme of study.

A student who contravenes the standards of conduct, performance and ethics for the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy may be dealt with under general regulations as to progress of students, the general regulations relating to student fitness to practice or the general regulations as to discipline of students.

No aegrotat awards can be made from this programme.