Advanced Transactional Analysis (Rolling Programme Years 2 - 4)

Overview

This programme (together with the first year foundation course) meets the curriculum requirements for UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy). Each group will contain a mix of students in their second, third or fourth year of training. Succesful completion of assignments entitles students to the relevant Iron Mill Award.

Year two - Advanced Certificate
Year three - Diploma
Year four - Advanced Diploma

Progression from one year to the next is dependant on successful completion of assignments and tutor assessment.

CONTENT

Rolling programme includes:

* The Classical School of TA


* Treatment planning, change and cure


* Working with groups


* Integrative TA


* The 7 Level Model of Integrative Psychotherapy


* The transpersonal, myths and archetypes


* Research and Psychotherapy


* Human development


* The development of personality, self-concept and personality adaptions


* The Redecision School of TA


* An introduction to Gestalt


* TA as a brief therapy


* Working with diversity


* The politics of psychotherapy


* Working with shame


* Psychoanalytic TA


* Transference and counter-transference


* Relational TA and the co-created relationship


* An introduction to DSMIV (R)


* Diagnosis, psychopathology and risk assessment


* The Cathexis School of TA

COURSE AIMS

To provide a comprehensive psychotherapy training programme within which students will:


* develop an in-depth understanding of TA theory and its application


* locate TA in the spectrum of other psychotherapeutic approaches, both theoretically and philosophically


* learn the methodologies of TA and their relationship to other methodologies


* develop an understanding of the nature of the therapeutic relationship and the variables that affect it


* become familiar with systems of assessment , diagnosis and treatment planning and understand their advantages and disadvantages


* understand and apply ethical and professional practice principles to the role of therapist, and the responsibilities involved


* integrate theory and practice in the context of psychotherapy

COURSE OBJECTIVES Year 2 (Advanced Certificate)

* To feel more secure in the understanding of where theory fits practice and practice fits theory


* To be confident in knowing the significance of relationship and to be more aware of the subtly of individual client's needs


* To be able to experiment with different ways of being with the client


* To be able to assess more effectively risk as well as need to be begin to feel more competent

Year 3 (Diploma)

* To begin the move from apprentice to journeyman


* To be able to use supervision more effectively to build on what is learned on the weekend training


* To pay attention to phenomenological data


* To begin to feel more confident in the assessment of risk and treatment planning


* To be aware of the subtlety of contracting


* To be fully aware of the significance of relationship


* To develop skills of being able to stay engaged and think at the same time

Year 4 (Advanced Diploma)


* For students to feel competent and creative in their relationships with people suffering from a range of disorders


* To recognise the significance of particular kinds of emotional need


* To be able to work ethically and competently with a range of different presenting problems


* To be able to help the practitioner to protect themselves through recognising the demands certain styles of adaptation need in the therapeutic process