• 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 Programmes in
Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle

What is Psychoanalytic Infant Observation? Who is the course for? What does it offer? Will it help my work with children and young people? What do students think about the course?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in our brand new information leaflet.

Observation Studies Leaflet

“Really helpful to enable me to step back and think about what’s going on in relation to me, the work setting and my role.”

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

“Psychoanalytic Observational Studies is a distinctive experiential approach to training for professionals working with children, young people and their families.”

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 all courses will be in September 2010. See below for further information and application process.