Online Therapy: How to Make the Transition to Working Online, and How to Develop Good Practice (Complete Set) – MULTI-BUY SAVING

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

Pierre Cachia, Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Head of Tavistock Relationships’ Online Therapy Service, has been responsible for establishing and developing ground-breaking work in this area. In this online self-directed learning course he will share his expertise and learning from his experience of heading up the service and from his own clinical work.

Consideration will be given to the implications of using the internet for therapy, including ethical and legal issues, and there will be discussion of the technical challenges which face clinicians when working in this way.

The question will be addressed of whether online therapy is essentially the same as face-to-face therapy, requiring an extension of existing models, or whether it changes our ideas of what psychotherapy can do.

This full series covers:

Part 1 – The Online Medium: Characteristics, Opportunities and Limitations

Part 2 – Technology in the Therapeutic Frame: Getting the Setting Right for Our Clients

Part 3 – Reflections from Online Practice: Interpretation and Therapeutic Intervention in Online Therapy.

This course set includes: three video lectures of durations 40 mins, 1 hour and 6 mins, and 45 mins; accompanying presentation slides PDFs for each video; and a reading list.

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Complete Set – Introducing Couple Psychotherapy – MULTI-BUY SAVING

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access from date of purchase)

In this self-directed learning set featuring six online lectures, you will be able to watch contributions by Tavistock Relationships authors who have played a major part in the development of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Stanley Ruszczynski, Mary Morgan, Warren Colman, Dr David Hewison, Andrew Balfour and Dr Christopher Clulow will introduce you to some of the key thinking that underpins the Tavistock Relationships psychoanalytic approach to thinking about couple interaction. The aim is to highlight what enables and what inhibits or prevents couple well-functioning.

This set contains the individual courses:

• Sharing Psychic Space (Andrew Balfour) – (26-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Interpretation in Couple Psychotherapy: An Attachment-Informed Perspective (Dr Chris Clulow) – (23-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• The Intolerable Other: The Difficulty of Becoming a Couple (Warren Colman) – (24-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Shared Unconscious Phantasy in Couples (Dr David Hewison) – (19-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• The ‘Couple Analytic Setting’ and the Psychic Development of the Couple (Mary Morgan) – (29-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Couples on the Couch: Working Psychoanalytically with Couple Relationships (Stan Ruszczynski) – (27-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)

(CPD certificates are available on request for people who have completed each of the six component courses – 2 hours CPD per component course, 12 hours in total.)

Psychological Processes in Divorce (Complete Series) – MULTI-BUY SAVING

(Purchase allows 3 months access.)

This online course features all three components in the series Psychological Processes in Divorce and Separation.

Part 1: Introduction and Legal Process. Part 2a: Model of a Couple and Couple Functioning. Part 2b: Types of Divorce and Couple Functioning in Divorce.

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Sharing Psychic Space (Andrew Balfour)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

The intimate couple relationship contains relationship templates formed in infancy and beyond, and significant residues of early trauma and conflicts that have the potential to lead to or prevent further development and growth. A major challenge to this development occurs when there is a profound difficulty in “sharing psychic space “without feeling taken over or psychically annihilated. When there are two viewpoints, a fear arises that one will invalidate or obliterate the other. Andrew Balfour describes how these couples function at a predominantly paranoid-schizoid developmental level and become trapped in with “either/or” struggles between “my way” versus “your way”.

This course includes a 26-minute video lecture, question set and reading list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – The Intolerable Other: The Difficulty of Becoming a Couple (Warren Colman)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

In this course Warren Colman describes an aversion and hostility to relating due to the difficulty of relating to an other who is different from ourselves and who does not conform to our wishes. This can become a stuck pattern in couples striving for omnipotent perfection in themselves and others to avoid the pain of loss and disappointment, especially, he says, when loss is experienced as equivalent to abandonment.

This course includes a 24-minute video lecture, question set and reading list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Shared Unconscious Phantasy in Couples (Dr David Hewison)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

Dr David Hewison, Head of Research and Ethics at Tavistock Relationships, presents a historical review of ideas about unconscious phantasy in couples, and looks at how unconscious phantasies within a couple’s relationship are defended against by various symptomatic interactions, each preferable to a feared catastrophe. The presentations ends with questions for the clinician to bear in mind within their practice.

This course includes a 19-minute video lecture, question set and a recommended reading/references list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Online Therapy Part 1 – The Online Medium: Characteristics, Opportunities and Limitations

(Purchase of this course allows three months’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy discusses the online medium, characteristics, opportunities and limitations.

Topics include:

• Terminology
• Digital Immigrants and  Digital Natives
• Psychic Space and Cyberspace
• The Online Disinhibition Effect
• Positive and Negative Aspects of Cyberspace
• The Culture of the Online Medium
• The Good and Bad of eTherapy

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 40 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

Online Therapy Part 2 – Technology in the Therapeutic Frame: Getting the Setting Right for Our Clients

(Puchase of this course allows three months’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy discusses technology in the therapeutic frame and getting the setting right for clients.

Topics include:

• Computer System Requirements for Online Therapy
• How to Choose Your Videoconferencing Software
• Ensuring a Reliable Connection
• Selecting Hardware and Peripherals for Online Therapy
• Preparing a Suitable Clinical Space for Delivery of Online Therapy
• Being Well Prepared as a Clinician for Online Therapy
• Becoming an Online Patient
• Contingency Planning and Using Successful Protocols in Your Online Practice

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 1 hour and 6 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

Online Therapy Part 3: Reflections from Online Practice: Interpretation and Therapeutic Intervention in Online Therapy

(Purchase of this course allows three months’ access.)

In this self-directed online learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy reflects on his experience of online practice and discusses interpretation and therapeutic intervention in online therapy.

Topics include:

• Management of Risk and Safeguarding Confidentiality
• Issues Around Jurisdiction and International Delivery
• Counter Indications for Online Therapy
• Working in a Different Frame
• Visual Composition as Communication
• What Does the Image from the Webcam Convey
• Implications of Operating in Cyberspace
• Reaching New Populations

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 45 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

Psychological Processes in Divorce – Part 2b. Types of Divorce and Couple Functioning in Divorce.

(Purchase allows 3 months access.)

In this video from Tavistock Relationships Online Lecture Series Dr Avi Shmueli, Psychoanalyst and Couple Psychotherapist, continues this series on divorce with a look at the different types of divorce and how people function when going through the process of divorce.

The Impact of the Internet on Couple Relationships

(Purchase of this course allows the user access for one year.)

Marian O’Connor (Head of Training for Psychosexual Therapy at Tavistock Relationships) and Professor Brett Kahr (Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships) consider the compulsive use of the internet “being constantly drawn into the world of virtual relationships” and the questions this poses in regard to one’s capacity for intimacy within couple relationships.

This video seminar will be of interest to practitioners working with individuals and couples who are struggling to understand the meaning and management of the internet on their relationships.

Developments in Thinking About Same-Sex Parenting and Couple Relationships

(Purchase allows the user one years’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course Dr Damian McCann, Head of Development Learning at Tavistock Relationships, Dr Fiona Tasker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and Jess MacIntyre, Project Manager at LGBT Consortium, discuss same-sex parenting in relation to couple relationships.