PGCert Low Intensity Psychological Interventions

The Low Intensity Psychological Interventions GCert/PGCert is a professional training course commissioned by NHS England for staff employed on trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) contracts.

The training programme is provided to staff who are employed on trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) contracts in NHS or NHS-commissioned services. The course aims to ensure that graduates have reached the required competencies to deliver evidence-based, low-intensity psychological interventions informed by cognitive behavioural principles.

Trainees will be taught and assessed in the following key areas:

• Low intensity psychological assessment of common mental health problems, including risk assessment, treatment pathway suitability and setting clear treatment goals.
• Low intensity psychological interventions for common mental health problems such as depression, generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder.
• Working inclusively in clinical practice, with opportunities to develop the reflective capacity required to examine the role of culture, values and belief systems, and how these are important in the therapeutic process.