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Adult to Adolescent Conversion Course: Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling with Adolescents
Leading to UKAPC Registration
Back to all 'Conversion Courses'A two-year course open to BACP, UKAPC or UKCP registrants who have substantial experience of working with adolescents.
Duration:
Adult to Adolescent Conversion Course: Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling with Adolescents is held on weekend days and a few additional days of attendance over two years.
Conversion Course Training Modules include:
- The Psychology and Neurobiology of Adolescence
- Essential Therapeutic Skills, Tools and Techniques for Work with Adolescents
- Essential Psychotherapeutic Theory (Psychoanalytic, Integrative and Attachment theory) and its application to clinical practice with adolescents
- The Body-Mind Relationship in Adolescence, Sexuality and body image. Eating disorders, self-harm, alcohol abuse, substance abuse. Understanding, how to be and what to do
- Relationships with Self and Others in Adolescence
- Adolescent Psychiatry
- Assessment, Diagnosis, and Risk Assessment
- Working Effectively with Challenging Behaviours
- Supervised Clinical Practice, Case Presentations and Clinical Seminars