Courses

  • PG Cert/PG Dip/MA in Working with Children

    Young People and Families: A psychoanalytic observational approach (M7)

    This course is accredited by the University of Essex, the Tavistock Clinic and BTPP leading to the POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA/MA IN PSYCHOANALYTIC INFANT OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES

    The course is delivered by BTPP in association with the Tavistock Clinic and the University of Essex. Applications can be submitted now via the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust website;

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  • This is a short course suited for students who are working with children and families and who are interested in thinking about early emotional experience and its effect on the developing personality.

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  • We are pleased to announce the launch of a new online course available through BTPP: Perspectives on Development. We will be exploring key points of development in the course of the lifespan, viewed from a range of different theoretical frameworks, including psychoanalysis, attachment theory, neuroscience, and developmental psychopathology.

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  • This course is for qualified child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists who wish to explore their clinical supervision practice and their consultation skills. Course members will either be currently offering clinical supervision and/or case consultation to CAMHS professionals or to professional colleagues across the wider children’s workforce or be about to start supervising.

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Training

  • Overview of the course

    Applications for the January 2023 intake are now open. Enquiries about and expressions of interest for this training intake are welcome. An early conversation with either Kevin Booth (kevin.booth@btpp.co.uk) or Eva Shehu-Whitefield Senior Tutor, (info@btpp.co.uk) would be useful and, if appropriate, a visit to BTPP and the possibility of sitting in on a training day (Friday) might help potential applicants with their decisions about submitting an application for the training.

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  • Course Overview

    This course is designed specifically with Child Psychotherapists in mind. It leads to qualification as an Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who can register with the British Psychoanalytic Council. The course consists of theory and clinical seminars, with lectures and a qualifying paper. The taught element of the programme is provided by a blended approach including video link seminars and face to face lectures. There are three symposiums a year which take place on a Friday and Saturday. Clinical experience will be gained by the two intensive training patients and once weekly work.

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