All CCI treatment programmes use evidence based psychological treatment approaches
Mood Management Course: Depression & Anxiety
The Mood Management Course (MMC) has been specifically designed to provide effective treatment for individuals currently suffering from depression and/or anxiety. Each MMC runs for 10 weekly sessions of 2 hours, with a follow-up session 4 weeks after the 10th session.
Social Anxiety Disorder Course
CCI offers a specific, targeted treatment programme for people with social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia). In this course individuals are provided with information that can help them gain an understanding of their difficulties and are taught techniques to help them manage their anxiety about social situations.
Worry and Rumination Course
The Worry and Rumination Course has been designed to specifically address chronic worry and rumination, which have been shown to be key maintaining factors in the maintenance of depression and anxiety. Participants are taught techniques to notice and interrupt their worry/rumination and to respond to these negative thinking styles in a more helpful manner.
Bipolar Course
The CCI Bipolar Programme is a psychological group treatment delivered to individuals who are medically managed for their Bipolar illness. The focus of this treatment program is on providing individuals with information about their illness, helping them identify early warning signs that precede a mood episode, and teaching them strategies to prevent hypomanic or manic episodes and to manage depressive episodes more effectively.
Eating Disorders Programme
The CCI Eating Disorders programme is a specialist community-based psychological service for individuals (aged 16 years and over) with an eating disorder – such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In this programme participants are educated about eating disorders (e.g. myths and medical consequences) and are taught techniques to help them change their unhealthy eating patterns and the dysfunctional beliefs that maintain the eating disorder.
Individual Treatment: Modular Therapy
CCI also offers individual treatment based on a modular therapy approach for the following clinical problems:
· Major Depression / · Generalised Anxiety Disorder· Dysthymic Disorder / · Health anxiety / Hypochondriasis
· Panic Disorder / · Adjustment Disorder
· Agoraphobia
Updated: November 2013