Perinatal, child, adolescent and family work: a psychoanalytic observational approach (M7, Saturday)
Entry requirements
To undertake this course, we ask that you have:
- the equivalent of six months full-time experience of working with children, young people and their families (approximately 1,000 hours). Approximately half of this work must have been completed within the last five years
- an interest in learning about unconscious processes, emotional development, observation, and psychoanalytic thinking
- a willingness to engage in thinking about the way that culture and individual/group identity shape emotional development
- a willingness to engage in experiential learning
- a first degree or the ability to demonstrate that you can meet the academic demands of the course and/or have completed one year of the Tavistock and Portman course, Emotional care of babies, children, young people and families (EC1).
Months of entry
September
Course content
Under the guidance of our expert clinician-tutors, students on this flagship observation course gain deep insights into human development and emotional dynamics – exploring the earliest stages of life via a detailed infant observation, work discussion group, and study of the latest child development research, together with key psychoanalytic concepts and texts.
There is a central place in the course for considering the impact of feelings of sameness and difference, and about cultural diversity, within ourselves, in our treatment of each other, and in our professional relationships. This course will provide you with the opportunity to explore unconscious processes which occur within, and between, people across the age range and within, and between, organisations. The infant and young child observations take central place on the course and are rooted in experiential learning about the processes set in motion in the earliest stages of life, which we understand as underlying and informing our later psychological development.
Graduates have used the course to deepen and develop their work with children and families, applying their practical observation skills and a psychoanalytic lens to their practice in a range of professional contexts. Many have also used the course as a preparation for further clinical training.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PGCert
- part time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- PGDip
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MA
- part time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Admissions Team
- training@tavi-port.ac.uk