Core Training Psychotherapy
There is a mandatory requirement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists for Core and Higher Psychiatry Resident Doctors to participate in psychotherapy training.
For Core Resident Doctors in Wessex the psychotherapy training consists of 3 components,
- An academic component, the Psychotherapy Academic Training Programme, delivered via fortnightly psychotherapy seminars on a Thursday afternoon 2.00-4.30pm in term time
- Regular attendance at a Case based discussion (CBD) group
- Taking on psychotherapy training cases ( 1 short case, 1 long case)
Theoretical Teaching
Trainees are required to attend the 2 Year Wessex Psychotherapy Academic Programme. The programme involves one afternoon every fortnight of protected psychotherapy teaching time in term time.
This academic training covers the majority of the major psychotherapy modalities and links closely with the opportunities to take on supervised psychotherapy training cases.
Case Based Discussion Group (CBDG)
Within Wessex attendance at the Case Based Discussion group is mandatory and a priority throughout your 3 years as a Core trainee (sometimes within CT3 it is acceptable for resident doctors to opt out of the CBD group for a period of time but this is only after discussion with the Psychotherapy tutor)
Trainees are expected to complete a CBDG assessment after each six months attendance at the group. (This will be monitored via the ARCP process and failure in this can lead to failure to progress to the next training year)
Please note Wessex requirements regarding the CBD attendance and CBDGA requirements are slightly different from the RCPsych minimum requirements
Psychotherapy Training Cases
Within Wessex we offer the opportunity to gain practical experience in a wide range of psychotherapy training experiences including, CBT, CAT, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, DBT, systemic therapy, group work, motivational interviewing, mindfulness as well as a range of second and third wave CBT based therapies including ACT. If there are any queries with regards to the suitability of a particular modality to comply as a training case the psychotherapy tutor will advise.
During Core training there is a mandatory requirement to undertake 2 face to face psychotherapy training cases:
1 short case (12-20 sessions with the patient)
1 psychotherapy long case (20 sessions plus with the patient)
The patients are usually seen weekly for therapy with additional weekly supervision with an experienced supervisor in the relevant psychotherapy modality.
The 2 training cases must be in different Psychotherapy modalities.
Each training case needs WPB assessments completing
Short case requirements are 1 SAPE (Supervisory Assessment of Psychotherapy Expertise) and 1 PACE (Psychotherapy Assessment of Clinical Expertise) at the end of the treatment. Details of the assessment tools can be found on the Royal College of Psychiatry Website
Long case requirements are 2 SAPES per long training case, 1 completed partway through the therapy and 1 completed at the end of the therapy and a PACE after completion of the therapy.
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