Adult mental health CPD courses
Our short courses will appeal to a broad range of practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work and focus on working with couples, families and young adults.
March 2020
Development of psychoanalytic theory: Lecture series
This lunchtime lecture series will offer you a systematic introduction and overview of the development of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to the...
Safeguarding Adults: Level 3 Training
This one-day training is based on the Level 3 Safeguarding Adults Intercollegiate document and will offer an understanding of the legal and policy...
April 2020
BIA Refresher
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) is a complex scheme and the role of Best Interests Assessor (BIA) is a challenging one. There is a...
8 Week Mindfulness Course (with added elements of compassion focused therapy and neurobiology)
Mindfulness and Compassion-focussed skills Mindfulness is about purposefully paying attention, in a non-judgemental way, to what is going on in our...
Families and beyond: an introduction to systemic thinking (Online)
We all live our lives in and through our relationships, both past and present, and we are all shaped by the social and cultural contexts in which...
Understanding development – adolescence (Online)
Adolescence is a time of life that is central to our sense of who we are in the world. It is a time of intense emotion, of startling changes, of...
May 2020
Tavistock Trauma Service: External lectures on trauma series
This innovative new series of lectures is organized by the Tavistock Trauma Service and is designed to reflect the clinical approach of the work,...
June 2020
An introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) was developed by Professor Paul Gilbert to work with people with severe and enduring mental health problems, many...
Intermediate motivational interviewing
This intermediate level course is the next step for people who have already received introductory level training in Motivational Interviewing. A...
Mental Health First Aid Training
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of...
Reflective practice for people working with clients who have experienced historical childhood sexual abuse (HCSA)
Working with HCSA In recent years more and more information is coming into the public eye about the extent of childhood sexual abuse amongst those...
Video interaction guidance
The 2 day training course will provide an introduction to Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and its theoretical origins.
July 2020
Brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy
A three day course introducing the principles and practice of working with Brief Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the application of these...
Introduction to Psychodynamic Concepts: A workshop for mental health professionals
This is a five-day workshop for qualified mental health professionals and those nearing the end of their training. It aims to provide an...
Nurturing Parents: Mindfulness based well-being for parents
The Nurturing Parents Programme (NP) has been developed by Eluned Gold. (Eluned has been teaching mindfulness for 20 years and previously worked at...
September 2020
Managing, Supervising and Facilitating Groups in The Workplace: A work based discussion group for public and voluntary sector professionals
Are you looking for a regular opportunity to think with others outside your organisation about your work? Do you facilitate groups that 'don't...
Working with families with physical illness: a systemic approach
The care and support of children and adults affected by serious physical illness, disability and treatment regimes falls largely to their families.
October 2020
An introduction to working with people with eating disorders and body dysmorphia
This is an introductory course on eating disorders and body dysmorphia, based on a psychodynamic frame of reference.
A Practical Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis: clinical implications
A Tavistock and Portman and London Neuropsychoanalysis Group workshop, in collaboration with the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of...
A Recovery Approach: Beyond existence and survival
The training is aimed at all professionals working in multi‐disciplinary community based teams (adults and young people) to enable them to develop...
Arrested Development and Facing Arrest: Dual diagnosis and complexity in adults and young people
The one-day workshop will provide participants with a broad knowledge and understanding of the complexities involved in mental health and substance...
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centred counselling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change.
December 2020
Neuropsychoanalysis: Clinical Implications
A workshop with Mark Solms
Courses you can join at any time
Working with personality disorder, severely ill and complex patients
This programme presents an opportunity for qualified psychotherapists/analysts to join the Fitzjohn’s unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS...
Bespoke courses
Reflective mental health practice today short course
This is a bespoke 10-week short course for mental health nurses, which develops the capacity to understand, process and thoughtfully respond to...
Coming soon
Assessing risk: a relational approach
This ten week course offers you an innovative framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing the risk...
Best Interests Assessor (BIA)
The Mental Capacity Act provides a frameworks for decision making for people aged over 16 years who may lack capacity to make some decisions for...
Couples as parents and parents as couples
Does your work involve contact with children and parents? Do you come across couples who are struggling to parent together? Do you want to...
Introduction to psychodynamic and systemic practice applications in work with young people and adults
This course explores a diverse range of practice applications of both psychodynamic and systemic theoretical models to professional work.
Nursing in Mind: Developing psychologically minded approaches to contemporary nursing and its dilemmas
Are you interested in… Connecting (or reconnecting) with the richness of nursing Exploring the contemporary identity of nursing Developing your...
Understanding couples
This half-day workshop is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are concerned with couples in the course of their work and...
Voice and communication therapy within the Trans and Gender Diverse Care Pathway: Essential knowledge and skills for speech and language therapists and voice practitioners
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is the national provider for both the paediatric gender identity service and the largest gender...
Working with couples
Therapeutic work with couples is an important mode of intervention which is relevant in child, adolescent and adult clinical settings. Our...
Working with refugee people and their families (D35)
This is the first module of the oldest and longest running course in this field in the UK and aims to assist those working with asylum seeking...
Working with teams and networks under stress
Teams and networks are about relationships. We all function in relation to networks, whether we are part of one, or feel outside and not properly...
