A modular CPD clinical training course for working with 18 to 25 year olds
Suitable for counsellors, psychologists and analysts
With limited therapeutic services available to this transitional age group in the UK, there is increasing pressure and demand on therapists in private practice and charities to treat patients within this group. This course has been developed to further the therapist’s skill and support when working with this challenging developmental stage.
Course Aim
This course supports a learning and experiential space for the therapist to discover what it will mean to allow the patient’s core anxieties—conscious and unconscious—to emerge in the service of development. This course gives close attention to transference and counter-transference manifestations and to the central significance of observation. A vital training objective is to support therapists in approaching the intricate defences and concerns of this age group. Working with adolescents in transition to adulthood can all too easily be marked with disconnectedness from the fears of madness, attachment, separation, dependency, somatisation, sexuality, and identity.
The training and facilitation ethos of this course focuses on the therapeutic implications of this age group being disconnected. The course will foster therapeutic approaches that connect adolescent patients with what it means to become their adult selves.
The course is suitable for registered professionals in the talking therapies.
General course information
Duration: Each module is 3 monthly Saturdays, 15 hours CPD
Convenors: Dr Alessandra Cavalli and Dr Francesco Bisagni
Fees: £400/module
2018-19 Programme
| Module 1 – Assessment and Clinical Implications for this age group | ||
| 13 October 2018 | Alessandra Cavalli and Francesco Bisagni | Transition |
| 10 November 2018 | Francesco Bisagni with Marica Rytovaara | Risk assessment and risk management |
| 08 December 2018 | Francesco Bisagni with Anne Alvarez | The re-emergence of early trauma in adolescence |
| Module 2 – Pathology: Sexuality, Eating habits and Cyberspace | ||
| 12 January 2019 | Alessandra Cavalli with Marina Bonfatto | Sexuality and Identity |
| 9 February 2019 | Francesco Bisagni with Elizabeth Anscombe | No entry defences, eating disorders and body dysphormia |
| 9 March 2019 | Alessandra Cavalli with Andrea Marzi | Identity and cyberspace |
| Module 3 – Specialised Clinical Approaches | ||
| 13 April 2019 | Francesco Bisagni with Elizabeth Urban | On the Fordham model |
| 11 May 2019 | Alessandra Cavalli with Martin Schmidt | The paternal function: its role in the transition from adolescence to adult life |
| 08 June 2019 | Alessandra Cavalli, Francesco Bisagni and Ian Williamson | Being between in pretend and in reality |
You can download the full Course Prospectus here.
2019-20 Programme
We are also now accepting applications for the 2019-20 programme.
You can download the 2019-20 prospectus here.
You can download the 2019-20 application form here.