MA in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychology and Counselling
Training Requirements
Personal Therapy
Personal therapy is one of central aspects of psychotherapy training. Students are required to be in personal therapy throughout the training at Terapia with a UKCP registered psychotherapist. Students need to attend at last 40 hours during each year of training. This allows for holiday and illness cancellations but facilitates students to meet accreditation requirements.
Supervision
Terapia provides weekly group supervision for all the required Toddler Observation and clinical work. Students who are conducting clinical work (Second Year) with children are in group supervision provided by Terapia but will need to take one hour per month of additional individual supervision.
Students who work with more than five children per week will need to take two sessions per month of additional individual supervision.
Students who have finished any of Terapia’s clinical trainings but have not completed their clinical hours will need to meet the cost of individual supervision. Further supervision may be recommended to students whose workload exceeds the school’s recommended minimum.
Mother and Baby Observation
Students are required to take 18 months Mother and Baby Observation with a minimum of 60 hours. This allows students to experience changes in the process of baby’s development and the formation of the relationship between the baby and the primary carer.
Observation Seminars are an integral part of the Child Psychotherapy Training. Students will have the opportunity to share their experience of observation and explore the transference and countertransference taking place and all the issues arising from their observation. This takes place twice a month in the small core group.
Clinical Work
Students are required to complete 450 hours with clients of all ages in Terapia’s approved placement.
Written Work
There is some written work required for submission which is at a master academic level of competency.
Psychiatric Observation
Students are required to take up 100 hours of psychiatric observation at Terapia’s approved mental health placement. It is required that all students must have experience of observation of children within a multidisciplinary setting where psychiatric or clinical psychologists’ assessments and case discussions take place.
This will be in an institutional, organisational or community setting with the following professionals working with children and adolescents: child psychiatrists, educational psychologists, clinical psychologists and paediatricians. This could be in NHS setting, CAFCC, Therapeutic Communities, Children Homes, Young Offenders Units or Family Assessments Centres.
