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Module Title
Clinical Practice 4: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Infants, Children and Young People
Reference SSD003 Version 1
Created February 2021 SCQF Level SCQF 12
Approved May 2021 SCQF Points 60
Amended October 2019 ECTS Points 30

Aims of Module
To enable students to apply and evaluate the knowledge and skills required to practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children of different ages, genders, with a range of presenting problems, and with their parents/carers and families and to provide consultation to the network around a child or young person.

Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
1 Critically appraise and evaluate work in the transference and countertransference.
2 Implement and evaluate creative solutions in response to perplexing presentations and situations in clinical practice.
3 Critically appraise and evaluate formulations of the patient's presentation to inform treatment choices and plans.
4 Critically appraise and evaluate a variety of psychotherapeutic techniques in working with children, young people and their parents and carers.
5 Critically evaluate and select relevant theory to support the application of specific psychoanalytic techniques.

Indicative Module Content
ACP competency framework; NHS governance; relevant policy and legislation; adaptation of techniques to specific clinical populations across the lifespan and key transition periods eg. perinatal, young child, latency, adolescence, parent and family work; looked after children and young people; complex trauma, comorbidity and developmental disorders; brief work; parent work; short term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (STPP); parent infant psychotherapy and group work; consultation; multi agency and multidisciplinary working.

Module Delivery
The module will primarily be undertaken in the clinical environment supported by a placement supervisor. In addition the student will undertake directed reading, seminars, lectures and practical workshops. Students undertake placement full time over the course of a calendar year working a 37.5 hour week with 28 days holiday and 8 statutory public holidays.

Indicative Student Workload Full Time Part Time
Contact Hours 81 N/A
Non-Contact Hours 358 N/A
Placement/Work-Based Learning Experience [Notional] Hours 161 N/A
TOTAL 600 N/A
Actual Placement hours for professional, statutory or regulatory body 3093  

ASSESSMENT PLAN
If a major/minor model is used and box is ticked, % weightings below are indicative only.
Component 1
Type: Coursework Weighting: 50% Outcomes Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Description: Clinical report 4- in depth case study (ACP qualifying assessment - 12,000 words)
Component 2
Type: Practical Exam Weighting: 50% Outcomes Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Description: Association of Child Psychotherapists competencies

MODULE PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTOR
Explanatory Text
There are 2 components of assessment: Component 1 is a clinical report (12000 words) Component 2 is a clinical practice which will be assessed on a competency basis against the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Module Grade Minimum Requirements to achieve Module Grade:
Pass A pass in components 1 and 2.
Fail A fail in either component 1 or 2.
NS Non-submission of work by published deadline or non-attendance for examination

Module Requirements
Prerequisites for Module Successful completion of Stage 1 of Doctor of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (DPsychPsych).
Corequisites for module SSD001 Research Thesis
Precluded Modules None.

INDICATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 ALVAREZ, A. (2012) The thinking heart: three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children. London: Routledge.
2 BION, W. R. (1970) Attention and Interpretation. London: Tavistock.
3 BRIGGS, A. (2012) Waiting to be found: papers on children in care. London: Karnac.
4 JOSEPH, B. (1989) Psychic equilibrium and psychic change: selected papers of Betty Joseph. Brunner-Routledge. patients. London: Routledge.
5 MELTZER, D. (1967) The psychoanalytical process. Scotland: Clunie Press.Rosenfeld, H. (1987) Imapsse and interpretation: Therapeutic and anti-therapeutic factors in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic, borderline, and neurotic patients. London: Routledge.
6 STEINER, J. (1993) Psychic retreats: Pathological organizations in psychotic, neurotic and borderline

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