Welcome

Care home work produces stress from multiple sources at once: a resident becoming distressed, a relative asking for an update, a call bell, a delayed handover, paperwork mounting, and a tight feeling in your body. The CBT Five-Part Model breaks that experience into linked parts so they are easier to spot and influence.

This course is aimed at care assistants, support workers, senior carers, nurses in care homes, activity staff, domestic and catering colleagues, team leaders, managers and other staff who support residents in residential or nursing care. It is written for the whole of the UK while recognising differences in services, regulators, employer policies and support routes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This course does not train staff to deliver CBT as therapy. It presents the Five-Part Model as a CBT-informed self-management framework to help staff see how thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, behaviours and environmental factors interact in stressful care situations.

Why This Course Matters

• Stress is rarely just one thing: thoughts, emotions, body responses, behaviour and the environment can amplify each other.
• The model makes stress more visible: naming the parts helps identify where change is possible.
• Small shifts can alter the cycle: changing one element, such as breathing, a thought, communication or pacing, can affect the rest.
• Care home work has repeated triggers: personal care routines, distressed behaviour, relatives, staffing pressure, handovers and emotional labour make a structured framework useful.

How This Course Will Help You

After completing this course you will be able to map stressful care home situations using the Five-Part Model, identify how thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, behaviours and environmental pressures interact, and apply specific strategies to interrupt or reduce the stress cycle.

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