Postgraduate - UnitMCP5004 - Child psychotherapy 4 year 2

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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8 points, SCA Band 3, 0.1666667 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Psychological Sciences
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy

Synopsis

Seminars include psychoanalytic theories and psychopathology including an in-depth study of the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. The applied seminars continue and include consultation, ethics, trauma and research. Clinical Supervision: individual psychotherapy supervision, 2 hours per week. Parent Therapy Supervision, 1 hour per week. Infant Observation Seminar, 1 hour per week.

Outcomes

The objectives of this unit are:

To continue an exploration in seminars of the fundamental psychoanalytic and developmental theories.
To explore the application of these theories to various aspects of clinical work both in seminars and clinical supervision.
To extend knowledge of the application of ethical issues, consulation to and research in the area.
To continue the observation of the ongoing development of a non-clinical infant for one hour per week, from six months of age to until at least twelve months of age.
To submit on completion a written account of this twelve-month infant observation.
To undertake psychotherapy with patients viz. children, adolescents and parents, and to present this work to the clinical supervisors; to be able to demonstrate a developing competence with the various techniques in the work.

Assessment

Trainees' performance on seminars
Written account of the year's infant observations to be submitted
Written report submitted by clinical supervisors for each trainee detailing progress made
An integration of the various aspects of the unit are to be demonstrated

Chief examiner(s)

Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy

Prerequisites

MCP5001 (MCP0001), MCP5002 (MCP0002) and MCP5003 (MCP0003).