Farrand: Low-intensity CBT Skills and Interventions

Here you can find additional material for chapters 4, 6, 9, 11-17 and 20:

Worksheet templates and short exercises for a client to work through independantly or a practitioner and client to work through together.
Weblinks to PWP workbooks that can be used in Low-Intensity training and practice with patients. They cover topics such as ‘Managing Your Worry’, ‘Unhelpful Thoughts’, ‘Facing Your Fears’– and support the specific interventions described in the chapters.

Just click the links below to get started.

Chapter 4: Clinical Decision-Making in Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Integrating Patient Choice, the Practitioner and Evidence Base

National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (2018). The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Manual.

The IAPT Manual will help guide commissioners, managers and clinicians through expanding their local IAPT services while maintaining quality and ensuring that patients receive effective and compassionately delivered care.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE; 2011). Common Mental Health Disorders: Identification and Pathways to Care (Clinical Guideline CG123). (accessed 9 October 2019).

This guideline covers care for people aged 18 and over with common mental health problems, with a focus on primary care.

Chapter 6: Supporting Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Interventions: Teach Me, Don’t Tell Me

6.1 Example of a relapse prevention worksheet

Chapter 9: Supervision in Low-Intensity CBT: Fundamental to the Clinical Method

IAPT Supervision Guidance (Turpin, G. and Wheeler, S., 2011)

IAPT guidance regarding the provision of supervision for the IAPT Low and High Intensity CBT workforce.

9.1 Reflection record for use in clinical skills supervision

Chapter 11: Behavioural Activation: Working Outside In, Rather Than Inside Out

11.1 Behavioural activation schedule

11.2 Example of a classifying activity worksheet

11.3 Example of an activity grading worksheet

Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions: A Thought Is Just a Thought

The Unhelpful Thoughts: Challenging and Testing Them Out workbook will guide you through two specific CBT techniques called Thought Challenging and Behavioural Experiments. These techniques have been shown to help many people experiencing common emotional difficulties such as low mood, depression, or anxiety.

12.1 Thought diary

12.2 Evidence recording and revised thought

12.3 Behavioural experiments plan

12.4 Behavioural experiments review