Specialization in Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy in Mental Health - Live

This course was created in 1998, initially as an improvement, to meet the need of medical and non-medical professionals for training in behavioral and cognitive therapy. Initially the focus was on anxiety disorders and later the course included other psychiatric disorders as well as specific psychotherapeutic processes of the approach. This approach has been presented in the literature reports of proven evidence and a demand from professionals for knowledge of this practice.

To achieve this, professionals need to specialize, given that colleges graduate students with generalist knowledge without specific depth, and it is in postgraduate studies that students will specialize in the approach they intend to use. It is not only by identifying with the approach or using techniques that therapists will call themselves cognitive or behavioral therapists; there is a need for training and supervision in theory and technique.