Family Therapy: Two More Foundation Groups Completed
You Are Looking At Some Very Highly Qualified Medics Amongst The Members Of This Group
For over ten months I’ve been sneaking off from paradise to train some prominent and up-coming clinicians in family therapy. Not only have these students been counsellors and pedagogues they also include two professors of psychiatry and a number of other medical specialists.
Not bad for a kid without a first degree, huh!
The fact is, though, that I’ve been in this lark for more years than I care to admit, and whilst it’s true that I have no first degree the University of London’s Institute of Psychiatry once created a unique examination for me, which I passed with flying colours, just so they could offer me a place on an MSc.
I’ve also spent time at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was an academic board member of Manchester Metropolitan University, when it was just a Polytechnic.
Anyway, this course is not about me, even though I wrote it. It’s about the students. Because I hate exams anyone completing the Course obtains a certificate, which explains that they have covered a similar syllabus to a family therapy foundation course in the United Kingdom. The difference is that my course emphasises a number of homework assignments that cause the students to learn and grow, or opt out. So anyone completing the Course really has the knowledge and flexibility required of a therapist.
The drop-out rate is high because of the emotional and behavioural demands of the assignments. Some people eventually complete their assignments long after the Course is over. Some people who passed the Course four years ago decided to repeat it because they learn so much about themselves as they learn their clinical theory.
Anyway, notwithstanding the numbers who drop out, those completing the Course were full of praise, which is gratifying.
Many Of This Group Are Distinguished University Lecturers
Kindly note: For the benefit of those whom have come to think of pebblesfromparadise.com as a web site about photography, the images illustrating this post were taken with a, somewhat, ancient Samsung compact digital camera belonging to one of the students.
