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The Lighthouse official opening
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Home Office minister, Victoria Atkins, officially opened The Lighthouse yesterday.
Hot off the press – order your copy of our 2019/2020 prospectus
We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2019/2020 prospectus. Inside you will find details of the wide range of postgraduate courses we offer.
Media Mention: Inside the Portman Clinic, the UK’s leading psychotherapy clinic
‘Our patients grow up in hell, and then they carry out hellish acts, and we respond as a society by putting them into hell, with the expectation...
Tavistock and Portman share in funding to support employers
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will share in nearly £4 million in government funding to support people with health conditions to...
Children and Young People Now Awards 2018
An innovative parenting project from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is among a strong field of nominees in tomorrow’s (November 21)...
Tavistock and Portman gets ‘Good’ rating, with ‘Outstanding’ effectiveness
Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors have rated our Trust as ‘Good’, with ‘Outstanding’ effectiveness, praising our skilled workforce, high-...
Our Gender Identity Development Service
As reported in the Observer today, the Trust is currently conducting an internal review into issues raised about the Gender Identity Development...
Our new governors
Elections to the Council of Governors for our Trust are now complete, and we can announce the successful candidates.
A memorandum of understanding with Beijing Huatong Guokang Foundation
We are delighted today to sign a memorandum of understanding with Beijing Huatong Guokang Foundation (BHGF), China. We are excited by the...
Showing our workings out – an update on the Practice Supervisor Development Programme (PSDP) so far
Read a blog on the Research in Practice website about the design and delivery of the Practice Supervisor Development Programme (PSDP) so far:
Council of governor elections 2018 – notice of poll
Voting for our council of governors is now closed.
Council of Governor Elections
Nominations for our Council of Governors is now closed, and we have received statements from the following nominated candidates.
Our Nurses highlighted in Mental Health Practice Journal
Our nursing development work and members of our outstanding nursing teams from CAISS and Gloucester House are profiled in the latest issue of the...
Notice of Election - Council of Governors
The Trust gives notice that it will hold elections to the Council of Governors of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Our student application portal will be unavailable on 8 and 9 September
Our student application portal, MyTAP, is undergoing planned maintenance and will be unavailable from 6am on Saturday 8 September through to 10am...
VIPP nominated for national award
Our Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline project has been shortlisted in the Children and Young...
Give your feedback on adult elective orthopaedic services in North London
North London Partners in Health and Care are launching a review of adult elective orthopaedic care services across North Central London. The draft...
Public governor vacancies
We will shortly be holding elections for our Council of Governors, with nominations opening from Wednesday 5 September 2018.
Save the Date! Gloucester House 50th Anniversary Conference
We invite past and present pupils and teachers, support staff, educational psychologists and any other interested stakeholders to join us on Friday...
Last chance for meaningful NHS treatment choice for those living with depression
Nearly 1 in 5 of the British public will experience symptoms of anxiety or depression at some point in their lives according to the ONS.
Transforming services for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse
The Department of Health and Social Care (DH) commissioned a programme of work to explore how a more joined-up service could be provided to...
The NHS at 70
Today marks the 70th birthday of the NHS. Paul Jenkins, Chief executive of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, gives his view on the...
New publication – read the practice review ‘Assessment and support of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria’ in the Archives of Disease in Childhood
There has been a large increase in the number of children and adolescents who question conventional gender expectations and seek recognition and...
Tavistock and Portman expertise downloaded over 100,000 times
Publications written by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust clinicians have passed 100,000 downloads.
Statement on FDAC National Unit Closure
The Family Drug and Alcohol Court National Unit is set to close from the end of September. Steve Bambrough, director of the FDAC National Unit,...
Book launch: Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
We would like to invite you all to the launch of Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
FDAC Project Manager awarded MBE
Congratulations to Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) Project Manager Beverley Barnett-Jones, who has been recognised at the 2018 Queens Birthday...
Phone issues at our GIC office
We are currently experiencing difficulties with our computer and telephone systems. Our IT team are on the scene and working on a fix – we hope to...
Launch party for the 50th book in the Tavistock Clinic Series – On Adolescence by Margot Waddell
We would like to welcome you to the Tavistock Clinic Series’ 50th book party, the event also marks the launch of Margot Waddell’s new book, On...Transforming services for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse
The Department of Health and Social Care (DH) commissioned a programme of work to explore how a more joined-up service could be provided to...
Introducing Fiona Nolan our new Clinical Professor in Nursing
We are really pleased to announce the appointment of our new Clinical Professor in Nursing, Professor Fiona Nolan. Fiona will be starting with us...
Extra funding provided to train 700 social workers
The vital contributions and challenging work of child and family social workers are being acknowledged in a new grant awarded by Department for...
Developing a diverse child and adolescent workforce: an introductory course (CPD64)
Free access course fully funded by Health Education England. Find out more.
GIDS referrals increase in 2017/18
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has seen an increase in the number of young people referred to our Gender Identity Development...
Our Portman Clinic's expertise to support pan-London forensic CAMHS
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is proud to announce that we have been successful in bidding to become the lead in offering Forensic...
New Parenting Adolescents & Young Adults Group
Our Adolescent and Young Adult Service (AYAS) is launching a new group for parents and carers of young people aged 16 to 25.
Join us at our first virtual open day
We will be launching our first virtual open day on Wednesday 9 May from 11am – 12pm.
RESOLVED: issues with our CPD booking system
The difficulties we were experiencing with the payment module of our CPD booking system have now been fixed – you can now book onto our courses as...
Introducing our Career Advice Slots
We are happy to announce the introduction of free Career Advice Slots delivered by some of the most senior clinicians in the Trust.
Anti-bribery statement
The Trust is committed to maintaining an honest, open and well intentioned approach so as to best fulfill the objectives of the NHS. This means...
Today is World Sleep Day 2018
In our over-caffeinated, over-worked and being able to be contactable at all hours society, having less and less sleep has unfortunately become the...
Trust response to Private Members Bill on refugee family reunion
This Friday (March 16), the House of Commons will have a second reading debate on the Private Members Bill, Refugees (Family Reunion) 2017-19.
Graduation ceremony 2018
On Saturday 3 March 2018, Dr Liz McDonald and Lord Adebowale received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the University of Essex at our Graduation...
Getting it right for young people
The CQC launched a report today calling for national action to ensure local services work together to better support young people's mental health,...
“Becoming Ourselves” conference postponed due to severe weather warnings
Due to the adverse weather conditions (and the forecast looking worse going forward), we have today taken the decision to postpone the conference...
Problem-solving Family Drug and Alcohol Courts expand across London
Families in nine London boroughs can now access Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC), improving the lives of London children who face removal from...
Giving a voice to trans and gender-diverse people
Clinicians from our Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) have contributed to new guidelines for speech and language therapists working with trans and...
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra visits the Tavistock Centre
On Friday 9 February we welcomed Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra to the Tavistock Centre which was opened by her mother, Princess Marina, on...
Community photography exhibition
The TAP and PCPCS Group Community Photography Exhibition by the Tavistock and Portman's community photography groups is now open to until the end...
Ten ethical principles for producers of digital apps and toys for children
By Emilios Lemoniatis, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Children now have many different ways to play, express themselves and access information...Upcoming Events
Strength and vulnerability: exploring authenticity and risk in contemporary organisational life
Conference Director: Lydia Hartland-Rowe
Attachment and psychopathology special topics: Serious dysfunction, formulation and treatment planning
This course will focus on several serious disorders that have unclear aetiology and relatively ineffective treatment. The goals will be to explore...
Fathers and Children in Troubled Times (CPD73h)
Guest Speaker: Gill Gorrell Barnes Following the publication of her latest book, `Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times' , Gill...
Working with Trauma, Adversity and Disruption: Fostering, adoption and kinship care study day
This study day, facilitated by Jackie Hall and Jenifer Wakelyn, will bring together mental health practitioners from different agencies and...
Past Events
Attachment and psychopathology
This three-day course focuses on the development, prevention and treatment of psychological disorder.
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: National Summit 2018
Researched and produced in partnership with The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and chaired by Brian Rock, Director of Education and...
Ecology, Psychoanalysis and Global Warming - Present and future traumas
Global warming is the most important concern threatening humankind today. It can be both frightening and traumatic. It is a reality, which is often...
Understanding the emotional impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): looking after nurses looking after patients
This innovative conference will address the profound impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on patients and the complex emotional impact on...
Trauma, Creativity and Resistance
Trauma refers to the emotional distress we experience in response to emotionally painful circumstances often linked to experiences of oppression,...
Systemic Psychotherapy and Queer Practice – Working Alongside LGBTQ People, Relationships and Families. Otherness & Reflexivity (CPD73i)
Guest Speaker: Amanda Middleton This half day workshop will help us learn how we might better get alongside LGBT families of choice. We will look...
The science of gender: evidence for what influences gender development and gender dysphoria and what are the respective influences of nature and nurture
The 2018 European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) science symposium
Assessing Risk in Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: A relational approach
Practitioners in health, social care and the criminal justice system have to manage challenging risk issues in their day to day work, often without...
Annual General Meeting 2018
...And Portman.
Mentalization and DIT
Mentalization and DIT at the Anna Freud Centre with Deborah Abrahams and Peter Fonagy.
Gender Identity Clinic – information session for GPs
The London-based Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) is inviting GPs, nurses and healthcare professionals to a free Gender Identity Information Session...
Discovering Leadership: Authenticity, Action and Responsibility – a group relations conference
Conference Director: Ben Neal
The Contemporary Observer: Learning and Teaching Psychoanalytic Observation Today
8th International Conference for Teachers of Infant Observation
Book launch: Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
We would like to invite you all to the launch of Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
Mental Health Research for the 21st Century: Shaping Evidence, Policy and Practice
The University of Essex and The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust's 4th Joint Annual Research Conference. Book your FREE place on Eventbrite...
Book launch and 50th Tavistock Clinic Series book celebration
We would like to invite you all to the launch of On Adolescence – Inside Stories by Margot Waddell, the 50th book published in the Tavistock Clinic...
Different pasts, shared future – Refugee Week 2018
“We are both similar and different, but we will thrive together” The Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees (University of Essex), The Tavistock...
Living Contradictions: Young people and identities in changing times
This first in a new annual lecture series on “Identities in Transition”, in memory of Stephen Thomson.
The Projections Society: ‘Confusion of Tongues’ and ‘The Nest’
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre Two short films: Confusion of Tongues and The Nest Em Cooper is a British director and...
Trust Scientific meeting: “What were the Germans fighting for in World War II?”
The Second World War was a German war like no other. Having started it, the Nazi regime turned the conflict into the most horrific war in European...
Trust Scientific meeting: Catch 22 – the inflammatory nature of insight
Professor Allyson Pollock gives an account of the thinking behind the NHS Reinstatement Bill.
Understanding trauma: principles and practice - Open evening
If you work with people who have experienced trauma this course will help you to develop a deeper capacity to reflect on your working practice and...
Second systemic postgraduate research conference – curiosity and critical practice research
This postgraduate systemic research conference is for systemic practitioners and is jointly hosted by the two systemic Professional Doctorates at...
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a group relations conference
This is an applied four-day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Child, adolescent and family mental well-being: multidisciplinary practice (D24G, Stroud) - Open morning
This open event will provide a thorough introduction to the PgCert in Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Wellbeing, with presentations from both...
Working with children, young people & families: a psychoanalytic observational approach - Open evening
Our open evenings give you the opportunity to meet members of the course team and have your questions answered before beginning your application...
Systemic approaches to working with individuals, families and organisations - Open evening
This event will give you a chance to meet the course tutor who will be able to guide you through your application journey. We are hosting two...
Trust Scientific meeting: “I haven’t given up”: reflections from First Step about working with children and young people in care
Presenters: Martina Weilandt and Anna Kershaw Chair: Bernadette Wren First Step is a Tavistock service that works to understand better the...
Courage and conviction in conversation: exploring the Tavistock and Portman archives at London Metropolitan Archives
Discover the unique role played by the Tavistock and Portman in the advance of psychotherapy and developmental theory through patient files and...
Psychological therapies - Open evenings
This event is relevant to those who wish to become a child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapist. Tutors from the following courses will be...
Becoming ourselves: the personal experiences of living in care and beyond
Alert: conference postponed due to severe weather warningsDue to the adverse weather conditions (and the forecast looking worse going forward), we...
Trust Scientific meeting: "What is happening to our NHS"
Professor Allyson Pollock gives an account of the thinking behind the NHS Reinstatement Bill.
Austen O'Hanlon: Silence
Austen O’Hanlon is a painter focusing on observations from street scenes. He has a fascination for people and how they respond to their...
Community photography exhibition at Dalston C.L.R. James Library
Dalston CLR James Library, Dalston Square, London E8 3BQ
Education and training open day
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Ruth Solomon: Lightly Go We
Having completed her studies at The Tavistock and Portman, Ruth is returning to showcase some of her latest work. Clusters move together to sing...
The Hamish Canham (Applied) Prize – prizegiving presentation and discussion
Alumni, current students and staff are warmly invited to join us for the presentation of the prize, to hear the winning paper, and to participate...
On the experience of being a GP today
A Thinking Space for GPsGuest Speakers: Dr Jenny Darkwah, GP Dr Moyra McAllister, GP Tim Kent, Consultant Psychotherapist, Primary Care Lead, The...
The Projections Society: 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre An important early film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, Truly, Madly, Deeply...
The Projections Society: 'Still Life'
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre Still Life 2013. Life for unassuming John May revolves around his work for the local...
The future of work in the therapeutic sector – a Tavistock policy seminar
Speaker: Elizabeth CottonChair: Julian LousadaThis seminar presented the results of the 2016 Surviving Work Survey, which looked at the future of...
Trust scientific meeting: 'The centre cannot hold: reflections on loss of form'
Students and alumni are welcome to attend this free meeting presented by Michael Brearley, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and...
Michael O'Mahony: The dream of Cristiano Ronaldo and other drawings
Exhibition: 10 November-2 January 2018 (9am-8pm Monday to Friday) The works that will be on display at the Tavistock Centre form part of a series...
Effective leadership in the social work profession as a force for good
A Centre for Social Work Practice and Tavistock Clinic Special Event.
Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder: National Summit October 2017
A joint conference by Healthcare Conferences UK & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Trauma in schools: a one day conference supporting school staff and school leaders
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has hosted a series of conferences over many years which have been a focus for developing approaches...
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