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This is a comprehensive introduction to the area of mental health, suitable for anyone with an interest in the area of mental health and illness. It is especially suitable for staff who work with people experiencing mental ill health, or for people with friends or family members who experience mental ill health. 

This is a 10 session course (containing 20 lecture videos, word handouts, mp3 sound file lectures and a quiz to help reinforce the learning). The course introduces the student to all of the basics of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Including: how it developed, how it works, the ABC model of distress, life rules, core beliefs and the links between what we think and how we feel.

This is an extensive overview of the fascinating but challenging area of Personality Disorder.  Full of video presentations, exercises, tasks and additional information.  The course covers assessment, diagnosis, treatment and helpful working strategies and related methods.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of self harm and specifically, to working with and supporting you​ng people who self harm. We look at why young people self harm, how they self harm, how to recognize self harm, exploring the triggers and predictors to self harm, useful interventions, therapeutic modalities that have been shown to be effective in the treatment of self harm, quality standards for helping services and much much more.

In this course we look at what is PTSD?, the causes of PTSD, the treatments for PTSD, How we can support the client with PTSD in a professional and effective manner, Psychotherapy and pharmaceutical treatments for PTSD, evidence about the likely prognosis of PTSD, Who is likely to get PTSD and why. It is a largely lecture based, with presentations by myself Kevin O'Doherty, together with lots of narrated PowerPoint slides. There are also resources for your use.

This course introduces the student to this interesting but challenging area of domestic violence. The course is packed with video lectures, PowerPoint videos, audio files, handouts, resources, quizzes and exercises. The course covers the definition of domestic violence, the causes and effects of domestic violence, the impact of domestic violence on children in the family, how staff can help and support victims of domestic violence, where to access help and additional support from organisations in both the UK and USA. 

This is a fascinating course which starts with an overview of offender profiling as developed initially by the FBI.  The course moves on to crime scene analysis by the forensic psychologist or forensic mental health expert and what this tells us about the likely characteristics of the offender.  The course looks at the likely characteristics of serial killers and rapists as distinguished from the general offender population, focusing on developmental characteristics from their childhood.  Infamous cases are explored and the student is encouraged to carry out additional work in researching these cases.  

This course has been designed to help people cope with anxiety and worry associated with the current outbreak of Covid-19/Corona-Virus.  It is also a very valuable resource for professionals who are supporting clients through this difficult time.  The course focuses on a wide range of Cognitive Behavioural techniques that are easy to learn, practice and implement on a daily basis.  The range of techniques are also very valuable for use in other areas of life and during other periods, where anxiety and worry might be present.

This is a comprehensive overview of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).  The course is suitable for anyone with an interest in the subject, whether that be from a professional or personal perspective.  We look at the nature of OCS, the symptoms, causes, maintenance factors, co-morbidity, treatment, interventions and support strategies.  Approached from a Cognitive Behavioural perspective, but other forms of intervention are discussed, along with a number of theories about causal factors for the condition.

This course is a follow on from my Introduction to CBT and focuses on higher level understanding of CBT theory and practice, specifically looking at Dysfunctional Assumptions/Life Rules, their part in psychological distress​, their development and how to amend unhelpful Life Rules.  This is an excellent course that takes the student to a higher level understanding of how CBT works.   There is a free copy of my book: The Little Book of Thinking Errors (in downloadable pdf format) as a recap.

This course is packed with lectures and narrated PowerPoint presentations and overall, provides a comprehensive introduction to Schizophrenia, how it is assessed, how it is diagnosed, its symptoms, treatments available, historical developments and evidence about the potential causes of the condition.  An excellent course for anyone with an interest in the topic, either from a personal or professional perspective.  The course is taught by Kevin O'Doherty, Psychologist, Forensic Mental Health Expert Witness and CBT Therapist.

This course is currently being finalised and will be available real soon!