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Diploma in Parent-Child Therapy
One year part-time course (for dates please contact the office: 020 7354 2913)
Cost: £3360. Can be paid in monthly installments after deposit. You will need to attend an interview day. Please contact The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education: 020 7704 2534 or email info@artspsychotherapy.org
Course Curriculum
This course is designed to train professionals and practitioners to:
- Enable parents and children to have the best possible relationship with each other
- Improve the quality of parent-child interaction on a daily basis
An enormous body of research shows that the quality of parent-child relationships is of paramount importance for a child/teenager’s long-term well-being and mental health. Yet many parents and children never sit down to reflect on their relationship, to say what needs saying, and so to really meet each other. Just like with couple relationships, a parent and child relationship can get stuck in patterns of aggression, conflict, alienation. When things are going wrong, so much can be done, often with relatively few sessions, to support both parties to have that essential conversation and to mend a relationship that otherwise could easily move from bad to worse. The entire culture of the relationship can be transformed to one of secure attachment, deep enjoyment in, and mutual respect for the other.
Who should attend
- Practitioners from any discipline who have been working with parents and children together, e.g. headteachers/teachers, social workers, psychologists
- Therapists and counsellors with substantial clinical experience of working with children and/or parents
Interventions covered on the course
The course offers largely attachment based interventions as it is centrally concerned with the healing of relationships rather than simply with the changing of behaviour. In so doing, it offers a psychodynamic approach taking into account the complex interplay of inner world and outer world realities in both parent and child. Interventions include: The PACE method (Dan Hughes); Home visiting with live observation of the parent child interactions; Filial Therapy; School or clinic based sessions; Family systems therapy; Arts based interventions. Trainees will also learn about the neuroscience of parent-child interaction and how this vital knowledge base informs interventions for parent-child relational health.
Trainers to include:
Dr Dan Hughes (USA)
Author of Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting and Attachment-Focused Family Therapy. Clinical Psychologist. Decades of ground-breaking clinical practice with children and their parents.
Dr Sue Jenner
Author of The Parent-Child Game. Child Clinical Psychologist working for many years to improve parent-child relationships in the Child Psychiatry Department at The Maudsley Hospital, London.
Professor Gary Landreth (USA)
Co-Author of Child Parent Relationship Therapy. Professor in the Department of Counselling, Development and Higher Education. Therapy and founder of the Center for Play Therapy University of North Texas. Director emeritus of the Association for Play Therapy.
Professor Garry Landreth (USA)
Co-Author of Child Parent Relationship Therapy. Professor in the Department of Counselling, Development and Higher Education. Therapy and founder of the Center for Play Therapy University of North Texas. Director emeritus of the Association for Play Therapy.
Ellie Baker
UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Trainer in Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Parent-Child Therapy (IATE, London). Consultant and Trainer in Parenting and Communication Skills. Founder of HeartSpace, Holistic, Education and Art Related Therapies..
Dr Margot Sunderland
Director of Education and Training, The Centre for Child Mental Health, London. Author of the award winning book What Every Parent Needs to Know and Draw on Your Relationships. Child Psychotherapist working with parents and children for many years.
Award
This is a joint award with the British Accredited Higher Education College, The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (academic partner of London Metropolitan University).
How to Apply / Interview
You will need to attend an interview day.
Contact The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
e-mail: info@artspsychotherapy.org or telephone 020 7704 2534
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