Master of Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

• General information
• Course structure
  • Units
    • First year
    • Second year
    • Third year
  • Coursework
  • Clinical work
  • Research workshops
  • Minor thesis
• Assessment
• Inquiries

General information

This course, offered by the Department of Psychological Medicine, is conducted primarily at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria. The degree is taken by coursework and minor thesis and shall be completed part-time in not less than three years and not more than six years.
The aim of this degree is to provide the opportunity for psychotherapists from various disciplines to examine critically the theoretical and research bases of the practice of child psychotherapy in the context of ongoing clinical skills training in this area, to understand the issues of research methodology in this field, and to contribute to the body of knowledge in this field by means of a substantial piece of scholarship. The long-term objective is to raise the academic and clinical standard of child psychotherapy and encourage scholarship and research in the field.
Applicants need to have a minimum of two years practice in their graduate field with approved experience working with children and their families and be currently engaged in therapeutic work with children.

Course structure

Units

First year

• MCP0001 Child psychotherapy 1
• MCP0002 Child psychotherapy 2

Second year

• MCP0003 Child psychotherapy 3
• MCP0004 Child psychotherapy 4

Third year

• MCP0005 Child psychotherapy 5
• MCP0006 Child psychotherapy 6

Coursework

Three hours of coursework per week per semester over three years.

Clinical work

Three hours supervision of psychotherapy work per week per semester over three years, plus each student is to have at least two children, two adolescents and two parents in psychotherapy during the course.

Research workshops

A series of seminars and other workshops on research methodology, data analysis, and critical examination of the literature relevant to the field of child psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the planning, preparation and writing of the minor thesis.

Minor thesis

Candidates will be required to submit a substantial piece of individual scholarship in the form of a minor thesis at the end of their final year.

Assessment

Assessment of the coursework will be by continual evaluation based on evidence of attendance and participation, and the submission of assignments related to the units being undertaken for the degree. An integration of the various aspects of the unit to be demonstrated in the students' clinical work. This may be supplemented by written and oral examinations.

Inquiries

Inquiries should be directed to Ms J Beaufoy, Postgraduate Child Psychiatry Training (Vic.), Austin Repatriation Medical Centre (Repatriation Campus), Building 36, Waterdale Road, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084 on telephone (03) 9496 4118. Email child.psychotherapy@med.monash.edu.au

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