Hosted by: BTPP 

Who is this course for?
This course is for qualified child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists who wish to explore their clinical supervision practice and their consultation skills. Course members will be currently offering clinical supervision and/or case consultation to CAMHS professionals or to professional colleagues across the wider children’s workforce or be about to start supervising.

Course Outline
This course will consider different types of supervision, the various contexts in which we supervise, the supervisory framework, working with the transference and countertransference in supervision, the dynamics of race and culture in supervision and offer the experience of being supervised.

Course Structure:
The course will:
▪ Introduce the participants to selected literature on clinical supervision and consultation.
▪ Provide the participant with an opportunity to discuss their own clinical work, in a small group, in order to exemplify issues involved in supervision.
▪ Provide an advanced work discussion group to discuss the participant’s own supervision and consultation work, in order to enhance clinical supervisory and consultation skills.
Learning Outcomes:
The course aims to equip each participant with:
▪ A deeper appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings of supervision in psychoanalytic practice
▪ A language for and some helpful concepts to begin to understand some of the dynamics and common issues that arise in supervision
▪ An awareness of the relational impact of the concepts of projection, transference and countertransference and the parallel processes that might occur in supervision
▪ Greater clarity about the different emphases, tasks and responsibilities in different types of supervision
▪ An awareness that supervision is a responsibility and is also yet another aspect of our own evolving understanding of the work of a child and adolescent psychotherapist.

Course delivery:
Online via Zoom

Dates:
Seminars will begin in October 2026 and be held once a month, for 10 months, on Thursday afternoons, 1.00-5.00pm.

Provisional dates: 08 October 2026, 12 November 2026, 14 December 2026, 14January 2027,11 February 2027,11 March 2027,15 April 2027,13 May 2027,10 June 2027 and 08 July 2027.

Seminars:
1. 1.00-2.15pm – ‘The experience of being supervised’ seminar
2. 2.30-3.45pm – ‘Supervision work discussion’ seminar
3. 4.00-5.00 pm – ‘Theory of Supervision’ reading seminar

Course Fee:
£800

Attendance:
A certificate will be provided on completion of the course. Attendance of around 80% is BTPP’s usual benchmark.

Seminar Leaders:
Seminars will be led by experienced and senior colleagues within the field of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

How to apply:
For more information and application form please go to the BTPP website (https://btpp.space) or contact our Administrators (e: info@btpp.co.uk, t: 0121 753 0413).

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