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

Psychoanalytic Observational Studies Masters/PG Diploma

This course offers participants the opportunity to develop observational skills within a psychoanalytic framework and to apply this in their professional work.

The Masters/Postgraduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies is available at three locations in northern England. In Liverpool, provided by NSCAP and validated by the Tavistock and Portman Foundation NHS Trust with the University of East London; in Leeds provided by NSCAP and validated by the University of Leeds; and in Newcastle, provided by Northumbria University.

The course is designed to help people deepen their understanding and awareness of human development and interaction and to help participants to think about their work from a psychodynamic perspective. The course is relevant to teachers, psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses and allied professional disciplines.

Students are required to be working in a professional capacity with children, adolescents or families. They are generally expected to have had at least one year’s experience of such work before commencing the course. This need not be in a clinical setting.

Completion of the course is a pre-requisite for those wishing to apply for the clinical training in child and adolescent psychotherapy.

The next intake for courses will be in September 2008.