This BPS Approved Certificate in Integrated CBT for Working with Adolescents consists of 20 two-hour training modules (40 CPD hours). The Certificate is designed to enable delegates to apply CBT to a range of common adolescent problems relevant to both practitioners and their clients. Each module gives a background on the topic, combined with practical implications and strategies.
These common difficulties frequently create distress and substantially interfere with functioning for many adolescents, even though they are not diagnostic issues that would typically lead to referral to mental health services.
Across the programme, delegates explore the emotional, behavioural, interpersonal and developmental challenges that commonly emerge during adolescence. The training considers areas ranging from emotion regulation, self-harm, trauma and substance misuse to relationships, identity, body image, eating, sleep, social confidence and perfectionism. It also examines the wider contexts shaping adolescent wellbeing, including family and peer relationships, disability, ethnicity, sexuality, social media, gaming and adolescent brain development, while maintaining a strong focus on safeguarding and practical therapeutic intervention.
CBT is an evidence-based approach to tackling difficulties that addresses both process and content within therapy. It includes 2nd and 3rd wave CBT ideas alongside evidence-based techniques drawn from other therapeutic approaches, such as MI, SFT and REBT, with a particular focus on process issues including motivation and communication difficulties that often arise when working with adolescents.
This Certificate is a series of bite-sized trainings provided by a series of experienced psychologists and CBT practitioners who specialise in the areas addressed within their courses. As a result, delegates will be guided through cohesive, evidence-based treatment plans and strategies.
I have recently completed all 20 of the modules for the above Certificate.
I would like to say that I found this learning very inspirational and really helpful – it is by far the best programme that I have studied for working with adolescents. The tutors were all amazing and gave so much of their knowledge within the short space of just 2 hours per module. This course has really helped me to gain a deeper understanding of how to adapt therapeutic approaches such as CBT and ACT to support adolescents with the many challenges that they are faced with today.
The training provided by SDS Seminars is excellent and I will be booking further sessions in the future.
— Lorraine Brown, Psychotherapist, Completed the BPS Approved Certificate in Integrated CBT for Working with Adolescents
Paul Grantham
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Director of SDS Seminars
Paul Grantham is a clinical psychologist with extensive NHS, Social Services and training experience. He has written on a range of therapy and helping issues. An extensively informed, clinically experienced and humorous speaker, he is known for his emphasis on the practicalities rather than just the theory of client-based work. Paul is a founder and Director of SDS Seminars Ltd and one of the most popular and inspirational tutors in the field of psychological skills training.
Dr Andrew Beck
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, BABCP President
Dr Andrew Beck is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and President of the BABCP. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, where he leads on the Children and Families module of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Senior Lecturer on the Children and Young People’s Talking Therapies programme. He is also a member of the BABCP Scientific Committee and former Chair of the Equality and Culture Special Interest Group.
Deanne Jade
Psychologist, Founder and Director of the National Centre for Eating Disorders (NCED)
Deanne Jade, Psychologist, Founder and Director of the National Centre for Eating Disorders (NCED). Deanne is a psychologist who has worked with eating and weight problems for many years. She has a passionate commitment to help people to recover and has taught a generation of counsellors how to treat eating disorders such as compulsive eating, bulimia, anorexia and obesity. She understands your deepest experience of eating distress and has changed many lives; sufferers of all ages and all types of eating distress have been guided toward a happier life. She brings skill, laughter and sensitivity to her work and she has a reputation for wisdom and seeing right to the heart of eating problems. Perhaps you have seen her on TV, on the radio and in a wide range of national magazines and newspapers.
Dr Julia Budnik
Medical Doctor, PhD
Dr Julia Budnik is a medical doctor with a PhD and extensive clinical, managerial and university teaching experience. She has worked internationally, within the NHS and in private practice. A qualified gastroenterologist, she has published widely in her field. Her current interests focus on evidence-based approaches to improving health and quality of life through psychological and behavioural change. Julia is also a children’s author.
Dr Jemma Hill
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Dr Jemma Hill is a Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years’ experience in mental health services. She has worked with children and adolescents since 2015 across CAMHS, Children’s Psychological Services and inpatient settings, including delivering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills groups. She currently works within a CAMHS Autism Team, providing assessment and diagnosis for secondary school-aged children. Her clinical interests include trauma, anxiety disorders and neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD. She is trained in DBT and is an accredited Video Interaction Guidance Practitioner. Jemma is also a part-time Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and contributes to research in neurodevelopmental interventions.
Dr Lisa Anderson
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Dr Lisa Anderson is an HCPC registered Consultant Forensic Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist, and a fully accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with BABCP. She has over 25 years’ experience working as both a clinician and academic, delivering assessment, interventions, and supervision across child and adult services within the NHS and private sector.
Dr Hasan Waheed
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Hasan Waheed is a Clinical Psychologist and has worked with children, adolescents and families from diverse ethnic backgrounds across the North West and East of England. He works for CAMHS and Just Psychology who offer specialist expertise to improve the accessibility and appropriateness of psychological and mental health services for black and minority ethnic children and their families. He lectures on Transcultural CBT and working across cultures, both at university level and for mental health and therapy practitioners. He is also a regular presenter at national conferences and has published articles in the field.
Georgina Shires
BABCP-accredited CBT therapist, Senior Mental Health Practitioner (CAMHS)
Georgina Shires is a BABCP-accredited CBT therapist and Senior Mental Health Practitioner within a CAMHS service. She has over 15 years’ experience working in mental health with children and young people. Georgina has worked across a variety of settings such as residential homes, forensic units, CAMHS and secondary schools. She is a lecturer at the GMMH Psychological Therapies Training Centre, where she teaches on the Educational Mental Health Practitioner course.
Naomi Burrow
Senior Practitioner / Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
Naomi Burrow has worked for 8 years in a child and adolescent substance misuse service where she provided therapeutic work to young people, supervision to staff and training to outside agencies. In recent years she has trained as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist as part of the CYP-Talking Therapies programme, where she is now a supervisor in the Emotional Health in Schools team.
Marie Wassberg
Accredited CBT Therapist
Marie Wassberg qualified as a CBT therapist at Goldsmiths University, London, 2003. She is registered with the HCPC and Accredited with BABCP in the UK. Marie has Diploma in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), gained in 2010, where she trained with Dr Elizabeth Malmquist and Dr Anita Linnér (Sweden), as well as with Professor Alan Fruzzetti and Professor Jill Rathus (USA). She is also trained in Trauma Focused-CBT, including Supervisor training; Prolonged Exposure; and DBT for Schools (STEPS-A). Marie has been part of developing many DBT-informed programmes in different settings, mainly for children, adolescents and families, but also for young adults (18-25), both in Sweden and in England. In 2018 Marie offered support and DBT-informed training to a group of mothers in Mexico.
Dr Runa Dawood
Clinical Psychologist & Chair of BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Minorities in Clinical Psychology Sub-Committee
Dr Runa Dawood is a Community Mental Health Clinical Psychologist, Chair of the British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology Minorities Sub-Committee, and former Disabilities Lead for this committee. She has a special interest in the overlap between Psychology and Disability Studies. She has experience in working with adolescents with a range of disabilities in schools, in child and adolescent mental health services delivering a broad array of therapeutic modalities, and also experience in relational and family therapy. She has written a number of papers relevant to disability and given talks on this topic in a variety of settings. She holds the SDS Accreditation in CBT, Level 3 (Master Practitioner in CBT, Assessed Academic Competence).
