• Training
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• Working Therapeutically With Young People
• Psychoanalytic Observational Studies
• Clinical Training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
• Example of Professional Development with NSCAP

Example of Professional Development with NSCAP

Chris has a background in youth and community work and in 2001 gained a BA (Hons) in Youth and Community Development from a local University. In 2003 he moved to a post with Barnado's as a Senior Practitioner: Boys and Young Men's Worker and at the same time undertook the NSCAP/Tavistock Clinic course Psychodynamic Approaches to Working with Adolescents; receiving a PG Cert from the University of East London in 2004. He then progressed onto the NSCAP/University of Leeds Psychoanalytic Observational Studies masters level programme which he is due to complete this year. In 2006 he moved employment to work as a Mental Health Practitioner with an NHS Trust, in part to gain experience of working in a multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health service to support his application to undertake the doctoral level Clinical Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy with NSCAP. In March 2007 he was successful in his application to commence the training.

In his application for the clinical training Chris said: “I am making this application to continue my journey of personal and professional development. I have a desire and ambition to train in greater depth in a therapeutic approach when working with children, their families and carers, as part of a multi-disciplinary team. I am keen to further develop my understanding of psychodynamic thinking, approaches and applications and to develop my current skill base whilst training as a Child Psychotherapist.”

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