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Integrative Psychotherapy – (M.A.)
Cork Institute of Technology
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,000 - | ||
| Location: | Cork / Ireland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Cork Institute of Technology
This programme is a postgraduate course of study and training in Integrative Psychotherapy for practitioners who have completed the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Counselling and Psychotherapy or its equivalent. It aims to equip practitioners with the advanced knowledge and clinical capability that would match international standards of best practice within the Psychotherapy profession.
Contents
The course has 90 credits and will be offered as follows:
* Year 1 (60 Credits) is a taught year where students will attend at College and supervision, thus completing the taught modules of the course. The regular sessions will be held on a combination of weekday evenings (generally 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.) and on Saturdays and Sundays.
* Year 2 will involve a programme of directed/supervised learning where students will research and write the Reflective Practitioning dissertation. During this year they will also carry out their Mental Health Placement.
Course Content
1. Developmental Theory & Adult Adaptations
Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of modern developmental theory including its Neurobiological underpinnings. They will learn to use this theory to guide their clinical work and to help them chart a direction for Psychotherapy. They will develop an integrated Psychotherapy approach for working with developmentally based disorders.
2. Clinical Assessment & Case Formulation
Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of the theory and application of clinical assessment, case formulation, treatment planning and delivery. They will apply this to a wide range of clinical issues and use it as a framework to analyse their practitioning.
3. Personal & Relational Process
Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of Relational Psychotherapy, focusing on the two-person, intersubjective, co-created therapeutic relationship, with major reference to unconscious process and the use of this to enhance their clinical work. They will be facilitated in an experiential way to review their own personal process and explore its impact in the co-created therapeutic relationship. They will explore their countertransference responses in Psychotherapy and relate them to their own personal process.
4. Trauma, Dissociation and their treatment
Students will develop an integrated understanding of the nature and origins of trauma and dissociation and their symptoms. They will be introduced to a comprehensive Psychotherapeutic framework for the assessment and treatment of trauma and dissociation.
5. Clinical Process of Psychotherapy
Students will be facilitated to develop an integrated understanding of the principles of Psychotherapeutic change. They will learn and consolidate an approach to
Psychotherapy practice involving the integration of relevant theoretical approaches and clinical methods.
6. Personal and Clinical Integration
Students will be facilitated in an experiential way to explore and analyse their integration of the clinical and personal dimensions in their practice of Psychotherapy.
7. Supervised Psychotherapy Practice
Through the use of group and individual supervision formats, students will be facilitated in their development as advanced psychotherapy practitioners. They will receive advanced facilitation to review their clinical practice and thereby identify their strengths and areas for development.
8. Practitioner Research Methods
Students will learn the key principles and methods of Practitioner research in Psychotherapy. They will apply these principles and methods to the design and planning of their Reflective Practitioning Dissertation.
9. Mental Health Placement
The aim of the mental health placement is to enable students to gain direct experience of the procedures, approaches and methods used in the mental health services.
10. Reflective Practitioning Dissertation
Students will follow an individualised learning programme through which they will conduct a practitioner lead qualitative research project focusing on their own integrative psychotherapy practice. The will culminate in students writing their Reflective Practitioning Dissertation and their exploration of this at the final oral examination.
Client work and supervision
Students will be required to carry out 100 hours of Counselling work with clients during each year of the course. They will be required to obtain supervision for this work from their own Supervisor. Additionally they will participate in monthly group supervision arranged by the course. Payment for individual and group supervision will be made directly by students and is not included in the course fee.
Personal Therapy
Students will be in weekly personal therapy throughout the course. The cost of this is separate to the course and is arranged directly between the student and the therapist.
Dual Relationships
Due to the personal and experiential nature of the course, it is generally not possible to have staff or students with significant existing personal or professional relationships in the same course group. Where possible, every effort is made to overcome this difficulty by placing them in separate groups. Oftentimes this solution is not possible and in these instances, a dual relationship may prevent the applicant from being offered a place on the course at that time.
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Applicants must
a) Have successfully completed the Bachelor of Art (Honours) in Counselling or Psychotherapy (minimum H2.2) or an equivalent* professional training in Counselling and Psychotherapy that satisfies the training requirements for professional accreditation.
b) Have competed two years post-qualifying supervised clinical practice with a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practice which is verified by an accredited supervisor.
c) Be assessed through interview
d) Submit two written references (for applicants who have not already been on a prior stage of the course)
*Equivalence Where an applicant has not completed the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Counselling or Psychotherapy, equivalence is assessed through the formal Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process used in Cork Institute of Technology. This involves applicants preparing a portfolio in which they would demonstrate how they have achieved the learning outcome of the modules in the BA (Honours) in Counselling and Psychotherapy as well as the two years post-qualifying supervised clinical practice.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Accreditation
Professional Accreditation
* The process of establishing training standards to prepare for the statutory registration of Psychotherapists in Ireland is in an emergent state of development.
* The present overall training programme at CIT combining the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Counselling and Psychotherapy, two years post-qualifying supervised clinical practice and the MA in Integrative Psychotherapy, represents the best interpretation of the requirements as they currently prevail. A consultation process is underway with the aim of having the overall Psychotherapy training programme at CIT validated as a recognised programme that meets the training requirements of the European Council for Psychotherapy.
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