PIT Modules 2014/15
Module 1:
Psychoanalytic concepts in relation to parent infant work
 Ghosts in the nursery – one day training
 Early development – 3 seminars
 Concept of defences – 1 seminar
 Mentalisation – 2 seminars
 Projective Identification – 1 seminar
 Dana Shai- public lecture and seminar
 Becky Saunders – public lecture and seminar
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Aim: To introduce psychoanalytic concepts and those relating to early emotional
development with regard to parent infant work
Objectives:
1. Provide a deeper understanding of the unconscious processes at work
within the complexities of the parent-infant relationship.
2. Provide an understanding of some of the theoretical concepts that are
most relevant to parent-infant work.
3. Provide a knowledge base of the factors that can affect the parent’s
capacity to parent, including intergenerational aspects, psychoanalytic
defense mechanisms, projective identification.
Module 2:
Attachment and neuroscience
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Attachment – 1 day
Neuroscience- 2 seminars
Development of a sense of self – 1 seminar
Understanding trauma and loss – 1 seminar
Aim: To introduce the main theoretical ideas of attachment and neuroscience
and how they are relevant to parent infant work
Objectives:
1. Provide a knowledge base of the key concepts in relation to parent infant
work.
2. Provide an understanding of the theoretical frameworks in these areas
through discussion.
3. Provide an understanding of the impact of optimal parenting and how the
therapeutic work can have a positive impact where parenting is less than
optimal.
Module 3:
Organisational and group process
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Organization dynamics – 1 seminar
Group process – 6 sessions
Working with professional networks – 1 seminar
Aim: To introduce the theoretical concepts relating to organisational and group
process
Objectives:
1. Provide a deeper understanding of the unconscious processes at work in
group and organizational settings
2. Provide a knowledge base for this and
3. Provide an understanding of how the particular difficulties of the client
group can have an impact on the organisational dynamics
Module 4:
Development of observational and Reflective Practise
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Supervision groups – fortnightly group
Assessing Parent Infant Relationships – 2 day training
Writing a final paper – reflecting on practice – 1 semina
Module 5:
The Practise of Parent Infant Psychotherapy
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Starting clinical work with mothers and babies – 1 seminar
WWW – I day training
Working with couples – 1 seminar
Working with fathers – 1 seminar
Understanding and Working with parental ambivalence and hostility – 1
seminar
Safeguarding and working with risk – 1 seminar
Maret Dymond -public lecture and seminar
Ending therapy – 1 seminar
Module 6:
Working with and understanding environmental and parental variables
 Assessing Parent Infant Relationships – 2 day training
 Alan Stein- public lecture and seminar
 Lynn Murray -public lecture and seminar
 Parental mental health – 1 seminar
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Domestic violence – 1 seminar
Substance misuse – 1 seminar
Joan Raphael Leff- public lecture and seminar
Cultural difference – 2 seminars
Module 7:
Parent Infant Observation training
Monthly 3 hour seminar