Psychodynamic Approaches to Working with Adolescents (ref. M33)
What is it like to work with adolescents – as a support worker, a teacher, a counsellor, a YOT member? What gets under your skin, and why? What will help to make your work feel more meaningful, have more impact, and greater understanding?
Who is this course for?
This multidisciplinary course is specifically designed for those professionals whose main interest or workload consists of work with adolescents and young people. These may include workers from across the health care, social care and education settings, including social workers, nurses, probation officers, teachers, psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors etc. The course provides a detailed psychodynamic introduction to the understanding of the psychosocial development, problems and disturbances of adolescence. The course explores ways of working with young people, and offering an effective service for them.
Aims
Our students, from a range of occupational backgrounds, develop the skills to make sophisticated use of an applied psychoanalytic model. Therapists and counsellors find the course helpful in developing their understanding of work with adolescents, but its aim is not to provide a formal therapy or counselling training. The reality is that many of the young people our students work with would run a mile from formalised therapeutic relationships. Instead, our students learn to provide a highly specialist therapeutic relationship in the context of their existing role, or any role with adolescents that they might move into.
Course Tutor Biography
Lydia Hartland-Rowe Biography
Content/Teaching components
Theoretical Lectures/Seminars Year 1
The majority of these lectures/seminars are given by members of the Adolescent Department.
Term One: The adolescent process.
Term Two: Problems of adolescence.
Term Three: Methods of intervention
Theoretical Lectures/Seminars Year 2
Advanced psychoanalytical theory and its applications to work with young people
Work discussion
Experiential group
Assessment
The first year will be assessed by means of three pieces of written work, to be completed by the end of the year. These will include a theoretical essay and a work discussion paper. The second year will be assessed by means of three pieces of written work to be completed by the end of the year. These will be a developmental paper, theoretical essay, a case study and a professional development paper. The third year is assessed by means of dissertation to be completed by the end of May. The year is made up of a combination of workshops, tutorials and supervision.
Closing date
1 September 2013 (late applications may be considered).
Time commitment
Year one of the course will take place on Tuesday mornings from 10am to 1pm for one academic year at the Tavistock Clinic. Further information will be given to students who proceed to years two and three.
Alternative locations for studying this programme
Leeds – part time, taught by UEL staff and local staff
Bristol – part time, taught by UEL staff and local staff
The course structure is the same for London, Leeds and Bristol.
