CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
ICAPP is pleased to announce it will be offering a clinical training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy commencing in 2018.
This will be a 1+3-year training with the first year comprising a Certificate Course in the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Children and Adolescents, including an Infant Observation component. Certificate Course students who have an interest in and demonstrate aptitude for working with children and adolescents within a psychodynamic conceptual orientation will have the opportunity to undertake the full 3-year clinical training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Those who have already completed a Certificate Course with ICAPP, or equivalent, are encouraged to enrol in the 3-year Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy training commencing in 2019.
For further information about the training and expressions of interest please email theicapp@hotmail.com
Introduction
The Sydney Observation Course ran for more than 20 years. It was originally established by Peter Blake, senior clinical psychologist, and Averil Earnshaw, child psychiatrist, after completing postgraduate trainings in London at the Tavistock Clinic. The original separation of the Observation Course and Psychotherapy trainings has evolved into an integrated three-year programme that incorporates both elements, commencing in 2009. The staff has expanded with the addition of locally trained psychoanalytic therapists and other graduates of the Tavistock child psychotherapy programme from London.
The Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP) introduced a 3-year part time professional training starting in 2009. This specialised course is open to psychologists, social workers and other professionals who would like to gain the knowledge and skills to become effective child and adolescent psychotherapists working within a modern psychoanalytic framework. Successful applicants will need either to be currently working with children and/or adolescents or be able to get access to working with this age group, and to have begun a minimum of twice weekly therapy at the commencement of the course.
The training programme will facilitate a deep understanding of psychological development and students will develop the capacity to provide effective interventions with children and adolescents with a broad range of presenting problems. The learning experience is intensive and includes opportunities for experiential learning through the weekly observation of infants and young children, as well as through psychotherapeutic interventions with children, young people and their families or carers. The meaning of material is discussed in facilitated small groups.
Other seminars offer discussions of selected readings in psychoanalytic theory. Current child development research is explored to extend and deepen awareness and understanding of different models of healthy human development. Students also undertake individual training cases under weekly individual supervision, running concurrently with the formal seminars.
The course teachers are highly trained and experienced object relations psychotherapists as well as teachers and researchers in the field of psychodynamic studies. Some staff members of ICAPP are also members of the Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis and the NSW Institute of Psychotherapy (whose premises ICAPP shares). ICAPP is affiliated with the London Tavistock Observation course and its child psychotherapy training course, which link with the University of East London. ICAPP also links to the Child Psychoanalytic Forum outreach programme and the Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
Small group seminars are held from 4 to 9 pm on Tuesdays at ICAPP’s Glebe base in Sydney.
