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QQI Certificate Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Level 9 Special Purpose Award

Part-time | Blended Learning | September 2023

A particular strength of the programme is the emphasis on practical skills throughout the course. This programme focuses on the applications of CBT and facilitates you to develop a working knowledge of skills, tools and interventions relevant to working with anxiety and depression. This is achieved through a model of experiential learning, practical application and practitioner reflexivity. Flipped learning, live demonstrations, videos, and assessment strategies to evaluate your performance provide you with a safe and optimum environment for learning.  

Who is this course for?

The programme is aimed at counsellors, psychotherapists and those from a BABCP-recognised core profession (Psychiatry, Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy) who seek the theoretical knowledge, practical skills and personal confidence to apply strategic protocols of CBT in the area of mental health and wellbeing. The Certificate in CBT is intended to enhance your existing qualifications and would interest professionals who may wish to pursue further level 9 studies in this area. This course is for you if you want to develop your clinical and academic skills further and are interested in evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.

What are the benefits of doing this course?

This QQI validated professional programme supports you in expanding your skills, knowledge and practitioner competencies to ensure you grow and develop within CBT structures that are innovative, creative and leading-edge. In addition to leading to a level 9 special purpose award, the programme is specifically designed to meet the growing demand for CBT-skilled practitioners within an overwhelmed mental health system. It is designed to meet the requirements for entry into Module 2 of the MSc in CBT with PCI College, thereby enabling you to pursue further training in CBT at Masters level should you choose to do so. The course is designed for busy professionals and adopts a collaborative learning approach, incorporating flipped learning, encouraging autonomy and choice for the adult learner. Through experiential in-class group practice and clinical hours, you can maximise learning when treating clients presenting with these concerns whilst developing strong reflexive skills that will strengthen your ability to integrate your learning.

What will you learn?

You will be provided with a solid grounding in the core concepts of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) as a discipline framed within the BABCP Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, in addition to more specialist areas such as anxiety disorders and depression. You will be provided with opportunities to discuss and consider the theories presented in the programme in a collaborative, experiential learning environment that encourages the integration of professional knowledge with self-reflection along with emphasising personal capabilities such as self-awareness, integrity, sensitivity, insight and compassion. Upon completing this programme, you will have developed an understanding of the core concepts of CBT and the skill to utilise specific models and interventions applicable to practice in the area of anxiety and depression. 

For more information, please visit https://pcicollege.ie/qqi-level9-cognitive-behavioural-therapy

Research Participants Invited

I am currently seeking Psychotherapists with a minimum of five years’ experience working with clients who have grown up in the shadow of their parent's problematic alcohol use, to take part in a study that will identify the effects on the client of parental problematic alcohol use.

If you are interested in taking part, you will be asked to participate in an interview. The face-to-face or zoom interview will take place in either DCU or at your place of work, whichever is more convenient for you at a time that suits you and will last for approximately 1 hour.

The study is completely voluntary and confidential. Participants can withdraw their participation at any time without explanation.

For more information, please contact Nichola:
Email: nichola.fannin4@mail.dcu.ie

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CREATIVE WRITING

If you, clients or colleagues would benefit from a creative writing course taught at the highest level and available online or in-person, then get in touch!

Courses at all levels and in many different categories starting Autumn 2023.

New to writing? Creative Writing: Introduction -- September 18th 2023 (Early booking advised for slot choice)

Working on a writing project? Check out 1-1 Mentorship (Limited slots -- get in touch today)

Special Interest: Writing for Well-Being course now available -- September 18th 2023

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Book a complimentary chat  with Martin today
info@martinkeaveney.com
www.martinkeaveney.com/courses 
087 600 7100

The UCD School of Medicine MScX348 Child Art Psychotherapy is open to applications for September 2023.

This programme is a four-year, part-time taught master’s programme. Suitable for professionals from a broad range of backgrounds including teachers, nurses, counsellors, social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists who wish to specialise in using images in a psychotherapeutic context to understand the inner world of the child.

Teaching comprises lectures, seminars, training in Child Art Psychotherapy. Individual and group supervision session. Placement in Child and Adolescent Mental Health teams as part of the programme.

Eligibility Criteria:

• A third level degree or equivalent is required.
• Experience of working with children and adolescents within mental health or educational settings is an advantage.

• Applicants are short-listed based on their previous professional experience and the short-listed candidates are interviewed to assess their suitability.

• Successful applicants are required to consent to garda clearance being sought which is standard procedure for professionals engaged in direct work with young people.

For a more detailed programme description and application advice, visit our website or email aine.begley@ucd.ie

Join us on July 12, 2023, in Dublin for an informative session on IAHIP membership and the accreditation process.

During the event, we will guide you through the accreditation process and provide insights from a recently accredited IAHIP member.

It's an excellent opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of IAHIP membership and how to obtain accreditation.

The room will open at 7pm, with the event starting at 7.15pm.

When: 12/07/2023 19:00 - 20:30
Location: Skylon Hotel, 27 Upper Drumcondra Rd, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 V1Y2.

You can find out more information and register by [clicking here>>>]

GESTALT INSTITUTE OF IRELAND CONFERENCE Moving, Sensing, Feeling, Bodies: Renewing Hope in a Fracturing World
When: 14/15 October 2023 
Where: Limerick, Ireland

 "One week remaining to secure your Early Bird Discount to experience exciting conference workshops and speakers"

From our earliest years of life, it is through our bodies-in-relation to other bodies that we make sense of experience.  In an increasingly fracturing world affected by wars, climate crisis, and migration of people from their homelands, we will explore how our embodied knowing can permeate the relational situation to instil hope.

Building on these themes, our conference gathering aims to…

This Conference will be of interest to Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative Psychotherapists, Supervisors and students.

Our speakers will offer exciting provocations and embodied explorations for those of us interested to (re)turn home to our bodies, a moving emergent body that is of a relational situation and a field.

We hope you will join us in co-creating possibilities for renewal, restoration and hope in the midst of a fracturing world replete with pain.

Click here for more information:
https://www.gestalt-institute-of-ireland-conference.org

Working with the Body in Therapy
- Introductory Training Modules 2023

LifeChange Psychotherapy is providing a series of Introductory Integrative Bodywork Training Modules for therapists interested in developing and specialising in bodywork, bioenergetics and body process awareness and tracking for their client-work.

September-November 2023 Introductory Training (Day) Modules

Training Module Dates 2023:

Sat 23rd September; Sat 21st October; Sat 25th November (Choose 1 date/option) Time: 9.30am-4.30pm

Following participation in any one of these introductory day-modules, you may apply for the next1^st level course (8 modules / 4 weekends) commencing Jan-May 2024.

For more details & how to apply see: www.lifechange.ie/training
Email: training@lifechange.ie | Ph: 01 661 2220

More Details:

About the Facilitator:

Brian Gillen is an experienced psychotherapist specialising for over ten years in bodywork and body-based psychotherapy as a practitioner and trainer. He is also a clinical supervisor, director and founder of LifeChange Psychotherapy & Counselling and Body Psychotherapy Ireland. He holds a masters degree in psychotherapy and has trained with the IPP and abroad in various bodywork, biodynamic and bioenergetic approaches to therapy. He has been a long-standing member of IAHIP, ICP and inaugural Chair of CORU’s Counselling & Psychotherapy Registration Board.

My name is Lisa Murphy, and I am a final year student on the MSc in Psychotherapy, awarded by Dublin City University. I am seeking fully qualified, accredited therapists to participate in the above- named research project and would be very grateful for your participation. My research supervisor is Dr Gerry Moore, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Associate Professor in Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, DCU

Boundaries in psychotherapy outline and clarify the nature of acceptable interactions with our clients in therapeutic work. They serve to protect both the client and therapist against harm. The research literature reveals some definitions of boundaries and offers examples of common boundary issues. A review of the research literature reveals a gap regarding how psychotherapists understand the concept of boundary issues and how they experience them in real-world clinical practice. Furthermore, research by Gardner et al. (2017) highlights grey areas around the behaviours that clinicians consider to be boundary transgressions.

This research intends to explore psychotherapists’ experiences of boundary crossings during clinical practice in Ireland. The study aims to gain insight into the way in which psychotherapists deal with boundary issues in the moment, the subsequent impact on the therapeutic relationship and ultimately the influence, if any, on the psychotherapists’ professional approach moving forward.

The study will be undertaken via a semi-structured interview format, lasting 50–60 mins. Participation is voluntary and participants can withdraw from the study up to one week post interview. Participants will be assigned pseudonyms and no identifying information will be used in the study.

If you are interested in participating in this research or would just like to know more, please contact me at lisa.murphy256@mail.dcu.ie. I would greatly appreciate your help and time with this research.

Student Research Study

An exploration of professional self-doubt among qualified psychotherapists

You are invited to take part in a study entitled “An exploration of experiences of professional self-doubt among qualified psychotherapists” as part of my Masters’ study in Integrative Psychotherapy at Dublin City University (DCU).

You are eligible to participate if you are a qualified/accredited psychotherapist with at least five years’ experience, are fluent in English, and have had encountered some level of self-doubt within your professional life.

You will be invited to participate in an interview lasting approximately an hour either at your place of work or in the Healthy Living Centre in DCU’s Glasnevin Campus, whichever is more suitable for you. If you prefer, you can also be interviewed via a Zoom video-call.

Your participation in this study will be completely voluntary.

If you would like to learn more about this study, please contact me by phone or email.

Deirdre Hogan 089 264 7095 or deirdre.hogan29@mail.dcu.ie