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1. Developmental Theory & Adult Adaptations

Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of modern developmental theory with a significant emphasis on its Neurobiological underpinnings. They will develop an in-depth understanding of the source and nature of developmental trauma. They will learn to use this theory to guide their clinical work and to help them chart a direction for Psychotherapy. They will develop an integrated Psychotherapy approach for working with developmentally based disorders.

2. Clinical Assessment & Case Formulation

Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of the theory and application of clinical assessment, case formulation, treatment planning and delivery. They will apply this to a wide range of clinical issues and use it as a framework to analyse their practitioning.

3. Personal & Relational Process

Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of Relational Psychotherapy, focusing on the two-person, intersubjective, co-created therapeutic relationship, with major reference to unconscious process and the use of this to enhance their clinical work. They will be facilitated in an experiential way to review their own personal process and explore its impact in the co-created therapeutic relationship. They will explore their countertransference responses in Psychotherapy and relate them to their own personal process.

4. Trauma, Dissociation and their treatment

Guided by the most recent Neuroscience research and practice in the field of Traumatology, Students will develop an integrated understanding of the nature and origins of trauma and dissociation and their symptoms. They will be introduced to a comprehensive Psychotherapeutic framework for the assessment and treatment of trauma and dissociation. They will be introduced to the range of current therapeutic methodologies reflecting the most recent advances in Neuroscience.

5. Clinical Process of Psychotherapy

Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of the principles of Psychotherapeutic change. They will learn and consolidate an approach to

Psychotherapy practice involving the integration of relevant theoretical approaches and clinical methods.

6. Personal and Clinical Integration

Students will be facilitated in an experiential way to explore and analyse their integration of the clinical and personal dimensions in their practice of Psychotherapy. Included in this will be an in-depth exploration of difficult and challenging phenomena in the therapeutic engagement. Students will also be facilitated in an experiential way to critically evaluate issues arising from working with difference and diversity in their therapeutic practice.

7. Supervised Psychotherapy Practice

Through the use of group and individual supervision formats, students will be facilitated in their development as advanced psychotherapy practitioners. They will receive advanced facilitation to review their clinical practice and thereby identify their strengths and areas for development.

8. Practitioner Research Methods

Students will learn the key principles and methods of Practitioner research in Psychotherapy. They will apply these principles and methods to the design and planning of their Reflective Practitioning Dissertation.

9. Mental Health Placement

The aim of the mental health placement is to enable students to gain direct experience of the procedures, approaches and methods used in the mental health services.

10. Reflective Practitioning Dissertation (25 ECTS)

Students will follow an individualised learning programme through which they will apply their learning and reflection to their own integrative Psychotherapy practice. This will include a practitioner lead qualitative research project focusing on their own integrative psychotherapy practice. The will culminate in students writing their Reflective Practitioning Dissertation and their exploration of this at the final oral examination.

DELIVERY

The course has 90 credits and will be offered as follows:

  • Year 1 (60 Credits) is a taught year where students will attend at College and supervision, thus completing the taught modules of the course. The regular sessions will be held on a combination of weekday evenings (generally 6.30pm to 9.30pm) and on Saturdays and Sundays.
  • Year 2 (30 Credits) will involve a programme of directed/supervised learning where students will research and write the Reflective Practitioning dissertation. During this year they will also carry out their Mental Health Placement.

AIM

This programme is a postgraduate course of study and training in Integrative Psychotherapy for practitioners who have completed the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Counselling and Psychotherapy or its equivalent. It aims to equip practitioners with the advanced knowledge and clinical capability that would match international standards of best practice within the Psychotherapy profession.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

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