Typical Entry Requirements

Applicants should have a mental health qualification e.g. psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and should have experience of working therapeutically with people with mental health difficulties. The course assumes prior experience of conducting psychological therapy and does not provide an introduction at this level. Applicants are required to have at least two years post-qualification experience.

Those applicants who wish to include the supervision option also need to have access to a client presenting with moderate to severe levels of depression for their first case.

Programme Length
1 week (plus 2 hours per week group supervision for a total of 37 weeks between October 2010 and July 2011 if you wish to include the supervision option)

Dates
Introductory Course:
27 September – 1 October 2010
Supervision Course:
Thursdays, from 7 October 2010 - 28 July 2011

Fees
1 week course: £950
Supervision: £3,180

Course Details
IPT is a manualised brief therapy which has an extensive evidence base with working age adults, older people and adolescents.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends IPT for the treatment of depression and eating disorders and, under the patient choice agenda, there is pressure to provide it as an alternative treatment to CBT. Registration as an independent practitioner with IPT-UK is achieved after attendance at an Introductory Course and the successful completion of 4 cases; the course aims to train those applicants who apply for the supervision option to independent practitioner level.

Contact Details
T: +44 (0) 1483 689441
E: c.king@surrey.ac.uk

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