CBT Today Vol 42 No 2 (May 2014)

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Volume 42 Number 2 May 2014

Inside this issue: Inaugural CBT4Wales event Pages 11-14

BABCP member backs therapy revolution in Ukraine There is a developing movement in Ukraine to offer more holistic and modern mental health services that are less reliant on models based on services delivered predominantly in institutional settings, many of which have not evolved much since the Communist era. In this article, Euan Hails talks about his work with trainee CBT therapists in Ukraine A number of CBT experts from the UK, Europe, Israel and Canada have visited Ukraine over the last two years to deliver specialist CBT modules covering the core areas of CBT, such as anxiety and depression, to more specialist CBT areas such as schema therapy, mindfulness and, latterly, CBT for psychosis, bipolar disorder and substance user disorders. During that time, a CBT diploma course has been developed in cooperation between the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv and the Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies. This

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course is accredited by the Ukrainian Institute of CBT (UICBT), which is also a member of EABCT. This course had its first graduating cohorts in February 2014. These workshops have developed under the UICBT 's direction. I was contacted by UICBT President Dr Oleh Romanchuk, a consultant psychiatrist and director of the Institute of Mental Health at UCU, who was also the first accredited CBT therapist in Ukraine (there are at least 12 accredited CBT therapists there). He invited me to Continued on page 3


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