Teaching CBT
The SWPS University’s School of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is the largest center of education for CBT therapists in Poland (as indicated by the register of certificates issued by the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (PACBT). With over 800 graduates in Warsaw, Sopot, Poznań, Katowice, Wrocław, and Rzeszów, the School, in a meaningful way, meets the social need of accessibility to evidence-based psychological therapy. Graduates of our CBT School hold diplomas confirming completion of a 4-year postgraduate program (and often certificates issued by the Polish Association for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Our graduates and students who are in the process of obtaining their diplomas, work across Poland not only in private clinics, but mainly in publicly funded centers offering psychotherapy for adults, children and adolescents, such as public psychotherapy clinics, community centers, as well as outpatient and 24-hour psychiatric wards. Their practicum is based on supervision and adherence to the code of ethics developed by the Polish Association for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
Unique Study Program for Psychotherapists...
The 4-year two-tier CBT postgraduate program has been designed to provide students with knowledge and skill, which would enable them to independently carry out psychotherapy of a wide range of mental disorders in adults, children and adolescents.
The program also encompasses psychotherapeutic skills of understanding and solving emotional problems of individuals, which do not meet the criteria of diagnosing mental disorders classified in DSM and ICD, such as problems of persons in crisis life situations.
..under the watchful eye of experienced supervisor
Supervision constitutes the main subject of the final two years of study. It is taught by teachers-supervisors certified by the Polish Association for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
The team of chief supervisors at our CBT School includes medical doctors specializing in clinical psychology and adult, child and adolescent psychiatry as well as therapists specializing in family and couple’s therapy and therapy of persons suffering from pervasive disorders and neurological dysfunctions..
Supervisions are conducted by a permanent team of supervisors, which is helpful for students who are dealing with analysis or encounter diagnostic or therapeutic difficulties in complicated cases.