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Programme summary for Professional Doctorate (D. Ch. Psych. Psych.) Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (M80)

About the programme

This programme enables you to contribute to the development of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service as a member of a multidisciplinary clinical team. You will acquire skills in applying psychotherapeutic understanding in varied community contexts, and in clinically based research, enabling you to meet the needs of children, adolescents and their families for specialised psychotherapeutic treatment.

Programme structure

The doctorate comprises a number of units, including:

Clinical Seminar

Work with Parents

Philosophy and Methods of Research in Child Psychotherapy

Working in the NHS

Thinking about diagnostic categories in the context of clinical work

Research Thesis Seminar

Clinical Seminar – General/Institutional Issues.

During the training, you will combine academic work with employment and will be in personal analysis.There is now an opportunity for child psychotherapists who have previously completed the MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy to undertake a top-up programme leading to the professional doctorate. This is a two-year programme involving study of research methods and presentation of a clinical research thesis.

Career opportunities

This clinically based training prepares you for a career as a child psychotherapist in the NHS.

Support

Students are supported by regular meetings with their personal tutors, the service supervisor in the clinical trainee post, by three intensive case supervisors, and by the leaders of their seminars.

Top up students are supported by clinical supervisors and seminar leaders

Admission

  • An Honours Degree

AND

  • A Diploma in Therapeutic Skills for Children and Young People (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) or an approved equivalent

OR

  • A Masters in Therapeutic Skills for Children and Young People or an equivalent.
  • Professional experience in work with a range of children
  • Personal analysis with a psychoanalyst approved by the training school for at least one year prior to undertaking the first intensive training case. (Frequency: 4 times per week, exceptionally 3 times weekly)
  • An undertaking to continue analysis throughout training.
  • Satisfactory Personal Interview with a senior member of the SIHR Child Psychotherapy staff, a member of the Child Psychotherapy Training Committee and a member of the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Committee to assess personal suitability to practise.
  • Approval of the Organising tutor and the Child Psychotherapy Training committee following consideration of application, written submissions, references and interview.
  • Possession of Enhanced Disclosure CPR

Admission Requirements for Professional Doctorate Top up

  • M.Psych.Psych. Successful completion of the Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (M.Psych.Psych) (M8), to a level at which candidates would be expected to be capable of completing the doctoral programme. (a minimum of 2 Bs & 1 C for the three major sections of the final portfolio.
  • Eligibility for membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
  • Evidence of fulfilment of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, the professional body of child psychotherapists.
  • Interviews

Approval following consideration of application, references and interview

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