Counselling in Educational Settings (ref. D82)
Are you interested in developing psychodynamic counselling skills to work with children and young people in schools or colleges? This course is for education professionals, working in schools and in educational settings and will help you make a change of direction in your career.
Who is this course for?
Professionals who have experience of working in educational settings with children, families or young people and who want to develop the counselling side of their role within a psychodynamic framework.
Aims
This course offers the chance to further this thinking in developing a psychodynamic approach to clinical counselling in schools and colleges.
It involves clinical placements in schools or colleges, seminar-based learning on two weekday evenings for a minimum of two years, observation-based and experiential learning.
Personal psychoanalytic psychotherapy once weekly minimum is required throughout the course.
Content/Teaching components
The usefulness of the psychoanalytic understanding of both emotional impediments to learning and personality development, together with a knowledge of the impact of group and institutional dynamics on the individual professional's and staff team's capacity to deliver the primary task of their role has shaped the outline of this course.
Student feedback
"Group supervision is extremely helpful; sharing case studies and thinking together about working with students"
"The course has changed my life, opening up a whole new world of opportunity"
Closing date
26th June (late applications may be considered).
Professional accreditation
Students are in a position to use both the taught components and the supervised hours as units to contribute towards individual accreditation.
Contact the BACP to find out full requirements of individual accreditation if they anticipate seeking registration.
Students are encouraged to consider an application for student membership of the BACP.
Time commitment
The course takes place on two late afternoons and evenings.
As well as the taught component of the course, students will need to have time available for a counselling placement, individual supervision and personal psychotherapy.
In addition, an observation of a young child in an institution for approximately two terms is part of the first year programme, and two institutional observations are undertaken in the second or third year.
Entry requirement
Open to students who have successfully completed to Postgraduate Certificate level Emotional Factors in Learning and Teaching: Counselling Aspects in Education (Ref. D1) or an equivalent prior learning experience within the Tavistock Centre portfolio, such as Therapeutic Communication with Children (Ref. D30).
