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Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (M80)

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Full time | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | 4 years | SEP

Study mode

Full time

Duration

4 years

Start date

SEP

Key information
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Qualification type

Professional Doctorate

Subject areas

Psychotherapy Psychoanalysis

Course type

Research

Course Summary

Course overview

This internationally renowned course is a four-year NHS clinical training in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Upon completion, you will qualify as a child and adolescent psychotherapist with eligibility for membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) which is the registering body for the profession. The course is validated by the University of Essex, leading to the award of Professional Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (DPsych).

About this course

Over four years, you will undertake taught components, clinical work placements and a research project, attending the Tavistock Centre for training events on Wednesdays each week.

The course consists of the following elements:

  • individual supervision for clinical work
  • small group clinical supervision
  • clinical seminars (assessments, beginnings, work with parents, endings, models of short term psychotherapy and brief consultation)
  • choice of specialist multidisciplinary workshops e.g. adolescence; fostered and adopted children; early years and perinatal; trauma and early development; children who are violent, delinquent or act out sexually; and eating disorders
  • experiential group relations week in year three
  • theoretical lectures and reading seminars
  • research teaching: methods and skills
  • workshops, supervision and support for research project development, proposals and ethical approaches
  • academic support and assessed academic work
  • individual tutorials and departmental/clinic events

You will also undertake clinical work under supervision, as a member of a clinical team and will:

  • work with long term psychoanalytic cases
  • work with short term psychoanalytically-based therapy offered across the age range
  • gain experience and training in assessments and brief-focused therapeutic work
  • gain experience with parents and parental couples of referred children
  • gain experience in generic child mental health work, including family work
  • develop clinical specialism(s)
  • undertake a research project

During the first year seminars on research methods and skills, you will be introduced to key research paradigms, quantitative and qualitative health care research methodologies and a range of research designs. You will then be supported to formulate a research question, usually linked to your clinical experience or your workplace, and develop your dissertation proposal for registration for a professional doctorate, to undertake the data collection and writing up of your findings.

You will be fully supported by a research supervisor and will also attend research workshops with your peers. The annual cross-programme research week offers access to the wider research culture at the Tavistock and Portman.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

Most places for this course are funded through a national scheme aimed at training the NHS workforce. If you are successful in your application, you will be directed to apply for training posts, one of which you must secure before taking up your place.

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£27,500

Entry requirements

In order to undertake this course, we ask that you: have completed our Working with children, young people and families: a psychoanalytic observational approach (M7) course or equivalent. (Completion must be to at least postgraduate diploma level or to master’s level if you do not already hold a UK honours degree. For overseas qualifications, equivalence of academic level to a UK honours degree can be confirmed by NARIC. An ‘equivalent’ programme will deliver comparable learning outcomes e.g. a two year psychoanalytic baby observation, a one year young infant psychoanalytic observation and two years of work discussion seminars and psychoanalytic theory lectures and seminars)