Psychological Therapy with Children, Young People and Families (ref. M34)
Open Evening
Thursday 22 March from 6.15pm - 8.00pm
Thursday 14 June from 6.15pm - 8.00pm
To make a reservation please contact the Course Administrator
This new and innovative course will equip people to work therapeutically with children, young people and families. You will be trained to offer therapy based on both traditional and Tavistock thinking (eg psychoanalytic and systemic) as well as evidence informed treatment.
Who is this course for?
This course is intended for counsellors, social workers, education workers, psychotherapists, creative arts therapists, child and adolescent primary mental health care workers, CAMHS practitioners, occupational therapists, nurses, and others working in both voluntary and statutory sector settings with children and families.
This course is taught by clinical practitioners, actively engaged in clinical practice, research and consultancy.
Aims
This course will train professionals who want to work therapeutically in child mental health settings with children, parents, young people and families.
It is designed to equip people for a role that has become increasingly needed in the CAMHS workforce as well as deliver counselling in schools and other settings.
It will provide foundations in developmental theory, key presenting issues in CAMHS, an understanding of systemic, psychoanalytic and other (evidence based) modalities, and offer a range of supervision and forums for case presentation in which people will develop a number of specialist areas of therapeutic understanding and practice.
Course Tutor Biography
Content/Teaching components
Teaching takes place in both small group and large group contexts.
The course consists of an introductory year, D24. This can be taken as a self-contained year, but can also lead onto 2 further years.
Years 1,2 and 3 require one a day a week attendance, and that participants are working with children, young people or families where they can apply a therapeutic perspective and ideas in their own settings.
Year 1: D24 (incorporating D42 and D34): Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Well-being: multidisciplinary practice
(Postgraduate Certificate, University accreditation applied for)
Seminars will be provided in the following areas:
- Child and Family Development (including neuroscience and attachment etc.)
- Key presenting issues in CAMHS (eg adhd, attachment disorders etc.)
- Psychodynamic work discussion/supervision
- Therapeutic concepts
- Systemic ideas
- Infant or family observation
- Termly tutorials
Year 2 (M34, Postgraduate Diploma)
- Foundations of assessment and basics of therapeutic practice in child mental health
- Developing a specialist in an area of work (eg fostering and adoption, autism, under 5's, adolescents)
- Supervision of cases within that specialist area
- Module in research and therapeutic work
- Some training in one other evidence based treatment
Year 3 (Masters Level)
- Developing a 2nd specialism in an area of work (as in year 1)
- Further training in evidence-based treatment
- Clinical supervision
- Dissertation
Accreditation
In terms of professional accreditation, we are actively seeking the optimal route for this, bearing in mind that the process for registration of therapeutic practitioners is currently being re-organised.
Closing Date:
Application deadline: 30 June 2012
Time Commitment
Year1: Mondays 10am to 6pm (academic dates on website)
Year2: Wednesdays 9am to 5pm;
Year3: Wednesdays 9am to 5pm
