Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

What you will learn

On this course you will learn the fundamentals of psychodynamic theory and practice, using both contemporary resources and source texts. You will be encouraged to take a psychosocial perspective to consider the interplay between our internal and external worlds and how children’s identities are formed in context.

You will also develop a self-reflective stance which is central to counselling practice and consolidate this with your own personal therapy which is compulsory throughout the course.

By the end of the course you will have gained the ability to work as a psychodynamic counsellor at an appropriate professional standard with children and adolescents.

How you will learn

This course is available to study part-time in the daytime. You will learn via a mixture of academic and experiential learning taking part in presentations and discussions and practising your counselling skills. Your clinical learning is facilitated by an external clinical placement in your second and third years, along with regular clinical supervision.

Highlights

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including in:

Graduates can pursue career paths in counselling and education. Possible professions include:

Birkbeck graduates from this course have gone on to be employed in various therapeutic and educational settings including in charities such as Place2Be and the Brent Centre for Young People, schools and colleges, and also in research.