Discussion: Psychotherapy and education

Lydia Noor wrote on 01/02/2009 19:07:29:

I am integrative psychotherapist working part-time in a secondary school developing and managing a therapeutic service.  This involves direct work with students, supervsion for pastoral staff, developing strategies within school that promote engagement with learning, training etc.  Is there anyone else doing similar work that would be interested in sharing expertise.

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Your work sounds really interesting and I know some of my trainees at The Manchester Institute work in this area and will point them to this discussion thread.

On another note how about doing a Workshop at the Conference on this subject!

I worked in secondary education particularly in pastoral roles for ten years before having time out with my family. I am now at the end of my 2nd year of pyschotherapy training and am very interested in working in a similar field as you in the future. I would be very interested to talk you on this subject. Meg Hughes

Hi, I am delighted to see this conversation that seems to accept easily that as psychotherapists we may work with clients of various ages! I run a core humanistic and integrative psychotherapy training in Ireland that qualifies graduates to work with children, adolescents, and adults. This is a contentious issue in Ireland at the moment as there is no clear position on whether psychotherapy clinical practice with under 18's can count towards accreditation. Currently the Irish Association for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (under the umbrella of the ICP) is not accepting child hours from applicants calculating their hours for accreditation. As far as I can see there is no documentation that states that psychotherapists should not work with under 18's and no distinction in TAC documents to suggest that training courses cannot/should not train participants to work with under 18's, or that any that do need to meet different requirements than currently set in Europe. I firmly believe that we should not discriminate against those who work with children or adolescents and that the more important point is to ensure that psychotherapists are appropriately trained to work with the client groups with whom they practice. Any thoughts? Eileen