Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

Award: Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

Two Year course

• Entry Requirements
• Course Structure
• Accreditation
• Start Dates & Fees
• Module Descriptions for Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy at SPCP

Course Introduction

The Advanced Diploma courses provide a focused psychotherapy training that challenges, and contributes to, a wide range of understanding of the therapeutic encounter. It prepares participants for professional work in both private and institutional practice. Successful completion will bring eligibility for registration with the appropriate professional bodies.

Objectives

The aim of the course is to produce practitioners who think independently, are theoretically well informed, able skillfully and ethically to apply in practice the methods of psychotherapy and counselling expertise in either psychodynamic or humanistic/experiential approaches within an integrative perspective of the therapeutic relationship and process.

The key objective of the course is to make it possible for trainees to:

• develop a comprehensive level of theoretical knowledge of a range psychotherapy approaches
• consolidate their clinical experience into practice of an integrative approach of their choice or construction
• acquire a general level of understanding of the major systems of psychotherapy
• develop a capacity for informed reflection on their clinical practice
• engage effectively in the use of supervision – with peers and supervisors
• gain understanding of ethical research methods relevant to clinical practice
• achieve eligibility for professional registration as practitioners of integrative psychotherapy.

Supervision

Every student is expected to be in individual therapy with an approved UKCP registered therapist throughout the duration of the course. Additional therapy may be recommended in individual cases.

Description

• At the end of Year 1: Eligibility in terms of training hours to apply for individual Accreditation with BACP
• At the end of Year 2: Eligibility to apply for UKCP Registration as an Integrative Psychotherapist

To apply for registration/accreditation with either UKCP or BACP a minimum of 450 clinical hours must be completed.

This course has been designed to achieve the intended outcome that trainees feel well-grounded within a core modality which engages with other dimensions and perspectives so that an integrative perspective is maintained.

This allows registration with the Humanistic and Integrative Section of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, of which the School is a full member. The course meets all the current criteria set by the UKCP Humanistic and Integrative Section for entry onto the register for those with a previous basic qualification in the field (such as satisfactory completion of SPCP’s Masters programme or its equivalent). In most instances, trainees will have completed registration requirements by the end of the course.

Although academically-rooted, the Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy places more emphasis on trainees' development as qualified practitioners within the broad perspective held by the school on the practice of integrative psychotherapy as reproduced below.

Clinical Placement

 Every trainee is expected to work with 2 - 3 adult clients on a minimum once-weekly long-term basis from the start of the course until the end of the course.

Further Information

At the end of Year 1, trainees are required to present three written submissions:

• Theoretical essay (3,000 - 5,000 words), title to be decided by the trainee
• Client study (3,000 - 5,000 words)
• Personal and professional development essay (2,000 - 3,500 words).

By the end of Year 2, trainees are required to present three written submissions

• Personal and professional development essay (3,000 - 4,000 words)
• Extended theoretical/client study (6,000 - 7,000 words
• Video tape of practice session with transcription and process commentary.