Centre for child mental health
Conferences, Training Days and Lectures. Continuing Professional Development Opportunities for Anyone Working to Improve Child and Adolescent Emotional Well-being.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. If I join one of your psychotherapy or counselling courses, what will I be at the end?
2. Who accredits your courses?
3. Why is the course so expensive?
4. Can I get funding? (see section on how to pay fees)
7. What is the difference between BACP and UKCP?
8. Are you are member of the Health Professions Council?
9. Minister for Health statement:
1. If I join one of your psychotherapy or counselling courses, what will I be at the end?
When you have fulfilled all registration or accreditation criteria you will become a nationally recognised registered adolescent counsellor, child counsellor, child psychotherapist, arts
psychotherapist. Just as there are registered doctors and psychiatrists, there are registered psychotherapists and registered counsellors.
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2. Who accredits your courses?
Our accrediting bodies include The London Metropolitan University, The Health Professions Council, The Accreditation Council for Higher and Independent Education, The United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy. We are a full member of the UKCP .UKCP is the lead body for registration of psychotherapists in the UK (UKCP is United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy).
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3. Why is the course so expensive?
Our training fees are standard for a psychotherapy course. We have to have very high staff student ratios, to ensure we provide students with a great deal of ongoing feedback. This is because it is a very responsible thing indeed to work with someone’s mind. IATE is a non-profit organisation and receive no government funding or grants from higher education funding bodies.
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4. Can I get funding? (see section on how to pay fees)
Careers Development Loan. You don’t have to pay the loan off for three years. All training costs and
therapy/supervision costs can be claimed back against tax.. Or you can pay for the course on monthly standing order..
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5. What theory do you teach?
Integrative. We have a relational, psychodynamic and neuroscientific integrative model. Key theoreticians are Freud, Jung, Bowlby, Winnicott, Stern, Perls, Berne, Kohut and Maslow.
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6. What is UKAPC?
It is a therapeutic counselling registering body like BACP. We offer two courses leading to UKAPC registration, namely Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling with Adolescents and Diploma in Child Counselling. On successful completion of these courses with the necessary supervised clinical hours, you will have the title of Registered Adolescent Therapeutic Counsellor and Registered Child Counsellor.
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7. What is the difference between BACP and UKCP?
The BACP trains counsellors and psychotherapists and the UKCP trains psychotherapists. They are the two main and the largest registering bodies in the UK. If you are applying for a public sector job as a psychotherapist or counsellor, adverts usually ask for someone who is BACP or UKCP registered. Psychotherapy is an in –depth long term treatment, which looks at how unresolved childhood pain is spoiling your life now, and works to resolve this.
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8. Are you are member of the Health Professions Council?
Yes our Arts Psychotherapy course leads to registration with the Health Professions Council. As yet there is no category for Child Psychotherapist within the HPC. The UKCP as a whole may go into the HPC at some point but this is still under discussion by the government.
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9. Minister for Health statement:
"The public don't want drug treatment they want psychotherapy and counselling. Therapy is far too good to be used exclusively with the sick."
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