Introduction
The Human Givens Diploma course deals with fundamental issues that affect all human beings and provides a highly practical framework for improving emotional health and wellbeing.
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It has been running since 2000, and was primarily designed for anyone in the counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatric and medical professions who wished to be more effective when treating depression, anxiety disorders (including PTSD and phobias), anger, addictions, eating disorders, behavioural problems,
psychosis/schizophrenia, relationship problems, self-harming, chronic pain and much more. But before long people from many other professions – such as education, social work, human resources, and business consultancy – were also finding it hugely beneficial for their work too.
On the course students learn powerful brief psychological interventions that are consistently effective and based on a sound, scientific body of knowledge about psychology and mind/body functioning. They also gain a rich and significant understanding of human psychology, behaviour and brain functioning.
Combining these elements together with the human givens organising ideas and new insights, arms our graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to work effectively, and as quickly as possible, to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of those they work with. The skills and knowledge gained are also highly relevant and easily transferable to other fields (such as parenting, teaching and back-to-work programmes), and bring about considerable benefits wherever they are employed.
To date, nearly 900 people have taken the Human Givens Diploma, many of whom work for the NHS, social services and other large organisations, but an ever-increasing number also work in private practice. Completing the diploma course up to Practitioner Level (Part 3), enables you to practice as a fully-qualified human givens therapist.
All graduates are encouraged to work in an outcome-informed way to add to the already significant data being collected in an ongoing nationwide study into the effectiveness of this approach to psychotherapy.