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Systemic Psychotherapy Training

Systemic Training with Families, Couples, Individuals & Wider Networks Commencing September 2008 and February 2009

in association with the University of Bedfordshire

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Contents

Please scroll down to read or click on one of the following hyperlinks to find a particular section.

• Welcome
• An Introduction
• Requirements for entry to the Systemic Therapy training
• The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy- Year One (Foundation)
• The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy- Year Two
• The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy- Years Three and Four
• Graduating as a Psychotherapist from the KCC Foundation
• The Application Process
• Funding
• Information Workshops
• Finances
• Centre Staff
• How to Find Us
• Application Form

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Welcome

Thank you for your interest in the professional training courses in Systemic Therapy at the KCC Foundation.

Our training programme provides a unique opportunity for you to develop your skills and abilities, to grow as a person, to achieve new openings in your professional career, to work more ethically and effectively with people.

You will have many questions about training in systemic therapy and counselling. This brochure gives you details that we hope will correspond to your interests. It provides information about different aspects of the training which people undertake at the KCC Foundation (KCCF), who it is for, what qualifications are gained, how the training is arranged, application processes, what qualifications are required to enter a training programme and fees.

The training team at the KCCF is available to answer any questions you may have. The Director of the Programme Susan Lang and the Courses Registrar, Christopher Gunstone are available for you to consult to gain information that may help you to clarify your interest in training. KCCF provides Information Sessions for you to meet staff and discuss the training.

KCCF is dedicated to enhancing professional practice for the growth of fuller human living using innovative practices from the developing field of human communication, narrative, appreciative and systemic studies. Through dialogue, action research, consultation, training, and therapy unique opportunities are provided for a variety of people.

The training courses are run from the Centre in London at Vauxhall, and in other centres in Hertfordshire or in Luton.

There are allied courses running in Sweden, and Colombia (South America) leading to a KCCF Diploma in Systemic Therapy. In Gothenburg, Sweden, the course runs in agreement with the University of Bedfordshire which validates the MSc in Systemic Therapy and Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice in the UK.

KCCF aspires to become a positive action organisation. We are constantly working to value and celebrate the differences of people as expressed through their race, culture, ethnicity, gender, class, religion and sexual orientation. We actively cultivate and encourage course participants from all different groups.

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An Introduction to Professional Training in Psychotherapy & Counselling

Unique Opportunities

 

The KCC Foundation offers a Variety of Opportunities for Professional Training in Systemic Therapy:

Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice over three to four years

Qualification as a Systemic Therapist over four years at Masters level.

Post Graduate Certificate in Systemic Practice for those taking only Years One and Two of the MSc in Systemic Therapy

Foundation course in Systemic Therapy.

Qualification as a Systemic Supervisor and Trainer over two years at Masters or Postgraduate Diploma level.

A Systemic Family Therapy Clinical Practicum specifically designed for those seeking clinical experience.

A range of conferences and workshops embracing systemic, narrative and appreciative approaches with many of the leading therapy practitioners running throughout the year.

The Summer Schools either residential or daily attendance, featuring many leading international presenters and systemic therapy practitioners.

Academic &  Professional Recognition

 Validation by the University of Bedfordshire

The Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice is validated and leads to an award of the University of Bedfordshire

The M.Sc in Systemic Therapy is subject to validation and leads to an award of the University of Bedfordshire

The MA/ Postgraduate Diploma in Systemic Supervision and Training is validated by the University of Bedfordshire

  Accredited by the Association of Family Therapy (AFT)

Year 1 and 2 of the M.Sc in Systemic Therapy are accredited by the AFT.

Years 3 and 4 are currently awaiting re-accreditation

  United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

The KCC Foundation is a full member of the UKCP.  The UKCP is a body that registers Psychotherapists, monitors and  maintains standards and also negotiates on behalf of the UK in Europe for the psychotherapeutic profession. People who achieve the award of the MSc in Systemic Therapy are eligible for registration through the KCC Foundation

About the KCC Foundation...

Members of the KCC Foundation are dedicated to a belief in the uniqueness of people as individuals-in-relationship. We believe that working with people in the context of their relationships, emotions, stories and future hopes creates immense possibilities. Our optimism is based on the solid experience that working with people through the rich network of their relationships creates wholeness, healing and possibilities of new living, even when hope seems absurd.

• The Centre offers Systemic Therapy to individuals, couples and families.
• Supervision and consultation is provided for counsellors, therapists and other human relations professionals.
• Learning opportunities are varied and include a postgraduate Certificate, and Master's level training for work with individuals, couples and families and their significant networks which leads to a professional qualification as a Systemic Therapist.
• KCCF provides training in systemic management, leadership and consultation to Post-graduate Diploma and Masters level qualifications
• Consultation is provided for people in organisations and communities

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Requirements for entry to the Systemic Therapy training

To enter the course you will need

a first degree, or other evidence of ability to study at postgraduate level,

and

a professional training of a type specified by the Association for Family Therapy.

and

practice experience of 2 years after qualifying

and

some setting where, as a trainee, you can gain experience to broaden and enrich your practice.

If you intend to apply for Years 3 and 4 without years one and two then you will need to go through an APEL procedure (Assessment of Prior Experience and Learning) and may need to do further training to reach equivalence.

The List of Relevant Professions which make it possible for you to commence training as a Systemic Family Therapist is specified as follows:

Psychology - Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology

Social Work - The generic professional qualification is required

Psychiatry and other medical specialities - for qualifying level training a specialist Registrar level of staff grade is required.

Teaching - Where individuals have had substantial experience in which they have worked with pupils and families in a counselling capacity.

Nursing - Mental Health Nursing and other nursing specialities which require counselling skills. It is also noted that nursing is now a graduate profession

 

The AFT Board has agreed that the following professional trainings can now be included as relevant professional qualifications to be eligible to enter the Systemic Therapy and Family Therapy training programme

Arts Therapists Art, Dance and Movement and Music Therapist qualified and registered with the Health Professions Council.

Counselling -three year minimum training, full BACP accredited membership (MBACP Accred) and experience in the public or voluntary sector is considered essential to establish equivalence of a professional qualification for entry to this training.

Occupational Therapy- qualified and registered with the Health Professions Council

Speech and Language Therapy - qualified and registered with the Health Professions Council

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Positive Action...

We actively seek to create opportunities for training from people who are members of ethnic minorities, different class groups, different cultural groups, different religious groups and people from different sexual orientations.

The KCC Foundation Centre's premises are designed to permit wheelchair access.

A Systemic Approach to Training

The systemic approach is used in training and supervision, counselling and consultation.  It explores connections, networks of relationships and communication patterns between a person, couple, or family, the people significant to them at any time and the ideas and beliefs each of them holds which give meaning to their behaviour.  It is a holistic way of working that recognises all experiences as valid, whilst allowing that some beliefs may be more desirable to one person's framework of understanding than to another's.  The aim of systemic practice is to work briefly and with lasting benefits, enabling all involved to move forward to enhanced fulfilment of life.

What Does Systemic Mean?

A systemic approach explores the networks of significant relationships of which each individual is a part, considering the beliefs that give meaning to people's actions and the communication patterns between people as they interact with each other and with each other's ideas.

From the moment we are born we are in relationship with others:  mother, father, wider family, brothers, sisters, friends and partners.  Everything we do, we do in relationship with people and ideas, our own and theirs.  From these developing relationships meaning emerges.  The different meanings of our relationships develop through:

• the things we do with each other and how we act;

• the ways in which we tell each other our ideas about the world, and our stories of what happens to us.

Systemic means that we are able to draw on a whole variety of ways of working such that fit for the people who come to us embracing what is best for the good of those who consult us.

The Therapeutic Approach: A Brief Description

A central focus of the approach is the reciprocal relationship between meaning and action. This includes an interest in how social reality arises through communication processes, its purposes and its effects. In therapy this focus leads us to explore the links between peoples' experiences and stories about living. In therapy training we think in terms of praxis - reflecting on systemic concepts in practice and lived practice in the ideas used.

Action is understood to occur in the context of relationships - home, work agency, family, culture, race - and in that special sense seen as jointly produced or co-constructed through communication. The use of teams is a central feature of therapy allowing for flexible and varied opportunities for experiences of co-construction.

Consistent with notions of second order cybernetics and the notion of "joint action" therapists and the teams working with them are viewed as jointly co-creating the therapeutic environment. Each participant enters and joins with the others from a particular position.  No one person is the actor or the acted upon, rather all are joint actors simultaneously acting, influencing and being influenced by each other.

The therapeutic process works with the totality of the lived experience of the client.  The purpose of therapy may be said to involve working jointly in order to co-create new ways of perceiving, acting, describing and believing such that not only are problems resolved and health created but new pathways are established for future living.

The Approach in Practice

The typical structure of a therapy session in the KCC training situation is as follows:

Before a session, the team, including the supervisor and therapist, discuss their ideas and hypotheses and prepare some lines of enquiry.  During the session the team meets again at least once to review their hypotheses separately from or in the presence of the client(s). With the consent of clients sessions are recorded on video and reviewed for both therapy and training purposes.

After the session the team reviews the session and discusses ideas for the next meeting if one has been arranged.

Sessions are usually about an hour or an hour and a half in length. Therapy is usually time-limited. Intervals between sessions vary and decisions about this are made in discussion between therapist and the client.  For example, there may be intervals of two, three or even six weeks between sessions.  Longer intervals enable the therapeutic work to become lived action:  the client inevitably interacts with significant others and these patterns of action, behaviour, language and beliefs generally become modified over time as clients co-evolve with others in their system. This enables the client and those in their system to own new patterns of interaction, behaviour, language and beliefs rather than attributing them entirely to the therapy.

Training involves an exploration and development of skills in questioning and talking with clients so that different positions are experienced and the opportunity is provided to reflect on their consequences - for stories about identity and relationships. The act of re-framing creates a new context out of which new meaning and connection can evolve.

Social construction of power, on the micro level between people in relationship , and the construction of wider possibilities for decision making.  In a wider context we are interested in how discourses of domination, submission and marginalisation may have an impact on our abilities as trainers, trainees and clients to act effectively; what stories are useful to change; who decides; how do we connect with and challenge our stories about our abilities?

Key Aspects of the Training Model

Theory and practice are closely interrelated in each component of the course. In theory sessions clinical examples are used, in the clinical sessions systemic concepts are constantly addressed.  Thus theory and practice form an integrated whole:  theory is "lived practice" and practice is "lived theory".  Similarly teaching methods and models follow systemic principles:  tutors and supervisors constantly question and critique their ideas and practice.  Students are thus able to experience what is one of the central tenets of a systemic approach:  the process of self-reflexivity.  Self-reflexivity is a principle which students and tutors alike follow through feed-back sessions at the end of seminar presentations, at the end of each day and at regular intervals as and when requested by all those involved on the course.  Keen attention is also given to the issues of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, age, class, sexual orientation and disability.  Included in this is the process of paying keen attention to language and the way that social realities are created by the use of language.

It has been found that the process of continual self-reflexivity throughout the course, as noted above, has the effect of enabling students to question continually and revise their ways of thinking, feeling and acting not only at the time they are on the course but in many other areas of their lives, at work and at home.

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The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy

Year One (Foundation)

 

Who the training is designed for...

Year One is designed for suitably qualified professionals, (see the list of qualifications above) who wish to gain an insight into Systemic Practice, and some of the principles behind the key methods in Systemic Therapy. They may then wish, on completing the first year, to apply for entry into the second year of the MSc in Systemic Therapy. They may later on wish to progress further in the course or not, depending on their interest. Course participants who complete the first year of the M.Sc in Systemic Therapy and subsequently are, through selection, offered a place in the Second Year will be starting the exercise of live training of work with families. A Post Graduate Certificate may be awarded for those taking Years One and Two only.

Aims of the Course...

- Understanding the family in context: stories lived and stories told

- The changing family life cycle and the growth of ethnic and gender identity

- The importance of social beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age and disability and the concept of differential power

-  Using the course work in your agency: making the difference

-  Learning and understanding yourself: using the course work

- Basic therapeutic skills: the Milan Systemic approach

- Receiving  referrals, relating to people in interviews

- Case consultation and supervision groups

- Therapeutic techniques for different problems: fitting the work to suit the client

- Models of systemic practice: power, culture and White and Epston; brief, solution focussed work and de Shazer, structural and strategic approaches to working with families

Teaching Methods...

The course teaching methods includes short lectures and group discussions, video-tape review, experiential exercises, mapping personal and professional stories. 

Course Structure...

The course is arranged on

September Course

22 Tuesday evenings from 5.00pm - 9.00 pm

plus some Saturdays

Most sessions are held at fortnightly intervals

(90 hours total)

plus

2 Workshop days

to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, which cost 50% of the advertised fee for the Workshop.

and

1 Course Plenary day in March 2009

February Course

21 Thursday evenings 5.30pm - 9.00 pm

plus 3 Saturdays

Most sessions are held at fortnightly intervals

(90 hours total)

plus

2 Workshop days to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, which cost 50% of the advertised fee for the Workshop.

and

1 Course Plenary day in October 2009

Entry Requirements...

This course is at Masters Level. To enter this course you will need to have a relevant degree/ professional qualification and work experience. If you are not in a relevant work setting, you will need to make arrangements to obtain experience. See the professional qualifications which are necessary to gain entry to year above.

Course Dates...

September 2008 beginning: The course starts on a Tuesday and ends in June/July 2009.

February 2009 beginning: The course starts on Thursday and ends in December 2009.

Course Fees...

The Fee for Year One is £835.  For details of Instalments Plans and Payment Enquiries, please see further on.

Applications...

Applications for the September 2008 course should reach KCCF by mid-August . Late Applicants will be considered.

All offers of course places are subject to satisfactory references being received by the KCCF.

The KCC Foundation requires students to undertake a Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosure. If you need advice on how to underake a check, please contact us.

Applications for the February 2009 course should reach KCCF by January 2009. Late Applicants will be considered.

Selection Event

The interview will include some exploration of the suitability of the applicant undertaking a course which involves work with families etc. We will explore the professional skills and abilities you might develop as part of the training. The interview will also explore and examine the capacity of the applicant to engage in challenging, demanding situations redolent with emotions and in-depth engagement with people in distress.

The suitability for someone to engage with a training in becoming a therapist or counsellor will be assessed using the criteria described above.

If the student decides to pursue the interest in being trained as a Systemic Therapist then they will be offered a place subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau check.

 

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The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy

Year Two

Who the training is designed for...

The course is the second year of the M.Sc in Systemic Therapy. This is designed for practitioners who have a professional qualification (such as those listed in the details above) and who wish to gain some clinical understanding of working with families and their significant networks using the knowledge gained in their professional settings. This year of the course includes opportunities for course members to do direct therapeutic work with families, couples, individuals and their wider networks with live supervision by course trainers.

A Post-Graduate Certificate may be awarded for those who only take Years One and Two.

Aims of the Course...

Developing sensitivity to gender, class, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion and the importance of enriching difference in the counselling relationship through culture

How to engage with and empathise with people in trouble

Varieties of ways of developing rapport  to match the needs of different people in their unique situations

Approaches and skills to enable you, when appropriate, to do  brief, effective short term work with families

Skills for working with families who  have been suffering for long periods of time and understanding how to make the difference for families in complicated distress and suffering acute symptoms

Managing  referrals and meetings of families and their networks Developing, understanding and managing your own feelings in work with families

Expanding your awareness of different developments of the Milan Systemic tradition

Working with supervisor and team to offer a therapeutic counselling service to clients of KCC

Studying how to think systemically about symptoms, problems and diagnostic categories

Learning how to apply systemic ideas and practices in your own and other settings and developing and understanding your personal and professional self: consultations in the course setting

Ethical postures and practices: practice in situations of differential power and in the context of continuing therapy

Working with violence

Different models for working with families

Couple relationships and therapeutic practice

Enhancing your abilities in systemic story making, interviewing and teamwork

Beginning study of research methods

Teaching Methods...

In this year of the course you begin direct supervised systemic practice by seeing clients with a team and supervisor. Clients are provided by the KCC Foundation Clinical Services. 

Course Structure...

The September course is arranged on 32 weekly evenings on Mondays from 4.30 pm - 8.30 pm

plus 3 Mondays - 1.30 pm - 8.30 pm

4 Workshop days (to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, which cost 50% of the advertised fee for the workshop

2 Course Plenary days in March 2009

5 days of Research Methods Teaching in June/July 2009

 

The February course is arranged on 32 weekly evenings on Tuesdays from 5.00 pm - 9.00 pm

plus 2 Tuesdays from 2.00 pm - 9.00 pm

4 Workshop days to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, which cost 50% of the advertised fee for the workshop

2 Course Plenary days in October 2009

5 days of Research Methods Teaching in December 2009 / January 2010

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Entry Requirements...

Students currently in the Year One course or having completed it in the recent past, will need to participate in a Selection Event including being interviewed for entry to the second year.

Applications from people not in Year One, but already having completed it or its equivalent, can be considered. You will need to complete an application form and provide information about prior training and experience to support your application.

Applicants for the second year, including those who have completed year one, will all have to participate in a selection event and process, which will include an individual interview.

Course Dates...

The September Course dates are to be advised. The Course starts in mid September and continues until early July 2009.

The February Course commences in February 2009 and ends in mid-December 2009.

Course Fees...

The Fee for Year Two is £1750.00. . 

For Instalments Plans and Payment Enquiries, Please see further on. 

Applications...

Applications for the September course should reach KCCF by mid August 2008. Late Applications will be considered.

All offers of course places are subject to satisfactory references being received by the KCCF.

The KCC Foundation requires students to undertake a Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosure. If you need advice on how to underake a check, please contact us.

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The MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy

Years Three and Four

 

Who the training is designed for...

The M.Sc in Systemic Therapy is designed for people wishing to practise as a professional Systemic Therapist or Family Therapist, working with client groups presenting a wide range of symptoms and difficulties.

The course approach is derived from the Milan Systemic Family Therapy model with Post Milan and Social Constructionist influences and involves working in teams or pairs The course covers working with families, giving particular attention to working with children and adolescents and extends this thinking to work with individuals and couples.

This course attracts people from different professional groupings, and with previous systemic training. All applicants must have a previous qualification such as those mentioned earlier in this paper eg social work, psychologists – see above.

The course provides eligibility for registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

 Aims of the Course...

The course modules for Year 3 and 4 cover the following:

Year 3

Systems of Significance  - Stories, Narrative, & Solutions

 

Practice Competence - Co-Constructing Contexts for Change

 

Research Methods Tutorials

 

Year 4           

 

Therapeutic Grammars & Conversations - Working in Different Contexts

 

Practice Competence  - Contexts & Applications

MSc Dissertation

Teaching Methods ...

Short lectures and group discussion

video- tape review and experiential exercises

"Mapping" consultations, directly supervised work with clients referred to KCC at its various centres

Pair work undertaken in own or another setting

Assessment is continuous and includes the development of a Professional Portfolio, with projects, video presentations and dissertations.

There are viva voce examinations in YEARS THREE and FOUR. Those wishing to obtain the MSC undertake a piece of research and write an extended dissertation .

Course Structure...

The September Course is arranged on 40 weekly seven hour sessions each year

Year 3 Thursdays

Year 4 on Wednesdays

4 Workshop days each year  to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, with a 50% discount of the fee for the workshop

2 Course Plenary days in March 2009.

For MSc students there are 18 hours of tutorial time

3 hours per week clinical work over 40 weeks

 

The February Course is arranged on 40 weekly seven hour sessions each year

Year three Wednesdays

Year four Thursdays

4 Workshop days each year to be chosen from the KCCF programme of workshops, with a 50% discount of the fee for the workshop.

2 Course Plenary days in October 2008

To support them in their development MSc students have 18 hours of tutorial time

3 hours per week clinical work over 40 weeks

Entry Requirements...

To enter at this stage, candidates must have a relevant, professional qualification and experience and have completed years one and two at KCCF or their equivalent elsewhere . A candidate will be required to provide full information of a prior training equivalent to years one and two and relevant work experience. Applicants will also be required to attend a Selection Event including an individual interview. If the tutors are satisfied with the applicant’s performance they may be offered a place on the third and fourth year. For dates for Selection Events call Christopher Gunstone at KCCF.

Please note: if you wish to enter Year 3 without prior training at KCCF, or after a break of more than 2year in your KCCF course, you will need to attend the Research Methods Module beforehand (Fee £350). For entry to the course in February 2009 the first day of the Research Module is on a Tuesday early in December 2008 - the exact date to be advised. For the course in September the Research Methods will be in June/July 2009.

Course Dates...

The September Course – Year 3 of the course commences in mid September 2008 and finishes in early July 2009

The September Course – Year 4 commences in early September 2008 and finishes in early July 2009

The February Course – Year 3 of the course commences in February 2009 and finishes at the end of January 2010

The February Course – Year 4 commences in February 2009 and finishes at the end of January 2010.

Course Fees...

The Fee for Year Three is £3590.00

(plus £350 for Research Module for those without prior training at KCCF, or after a break in your KCCF Course)

The Fee for Year Four is £3590.00

Instalments Plans and Payment Enquiries, Please see further on.

Applications...

Applications for entry in September 2008 must reach KCCF by 5^th April 2008. If you are a current/recent student of KCCF applications for September 2008 Year Three can be considered now.

All offers of course places are subject to satisfactory references being received by the KCCF.

The KCC Foundation requires students to undertake a Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosure. If you need advice on how to undertake a check, please contact us.

 

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Graduating as a Psychotherapist from the KCC Foundation...

Award of an MSc provides a route to membership of the KCC Foundation Register of Systemic Practitioners and thereby eligibility for registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

Registration with UKCP is increasingly a requirement for those seeking employment as therapists and counsellors.

Many of our graduates are working in Social Services Departments, Health Services and Mental Health institutions as Family and Systemic Therapists in the increasing number of posts now becoming available. 

Many also work in private practice on a full or part- time basis.

We are proud that many of our past students have gone on to teach with us.

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The Application Process

All offers of course places are subject to satisfactory references being received by KCCF..

Each application is carefully studied by the Course Directors to ensure you have applied for the most appropriate course for your particular experience and requirements.

Your application must be accompanied by an application fee of £29.00. This covers administration and tutor's time in deciding with you the outcome of your application. It is non-returnable.

KCCF will acknowledge receipt of your application, you will be contacted for a discussion and interview.

Successful candidates will receive a formal offer pack, containing programmes, project information, reading lists, the Code of Ethics, and a Contract Acceptance Form, which you should sign and return to KCCF to secure your place on the course.

Return of the KCCF Acceptance Form and / or making a course fee payment constitutes your agreement to the terms of the offer letter.

Should you not be able to take up your contracted place, KCCF will allow you to transfer to the next application entry date together with any payment you have made. This may be done once only.

Please note that fees are due at the beginning of the course on which you enrol. Instalment plans are available.

KCCF reserves the right to cancel or postpone a course should circumstances require it.

Continuity is important, but you may take a gap of one year between the years of the course, where applicable.

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Funding

It is often the case that students need to find a source of funding in order for them to be able to undertake courses. It is an unfortunate fact that the Local Authorities are very unlikely to award any grants. However, some students have been able to find alternative methods of funding and these follow below. We hope that this information will help.

A  Career Development Loan    

It has been our experience that students have been successful in their application for a Career Development Loan.

You may be eligible for a Career development Loan for a vocational course.

More information can be obtained from the Career Development Loan Information Line.

Tel. 0800 585 505 from 8.00pm to 10.00pm seven days a week or Website: www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/cdl

Relevant Publications    

The Awards Almanac

An International Guide to Career Research and Education Funding - St. James Press

Awards for Post-graduate study at Commonwealth Universities.

The Association of Commonwealth Universities

The British Universities Guide to Graduate Study

Published by the Association Commonwealth Universities on behalf of the CVCP

Coping with Post-graduate Funding

Ingleton, E. and Phillips, P. (1987) Newpoint: London

The CRAC Student's Guide to Graduate Studies in the UK

Published by Hobson's Pub

Directory of Grant Making Trusts

Published by the Charities Aid Foundation

Educational Charities; a Guide to Educational Trust Funds

Published by the National Union of Students

The Educational Grant Directory

Fitzherbert, H. and Eastwood, K. Directory of Social Change: London

The British Association for Counselling has a leaflet entitled:

Funding for Courses in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Copies can be obtained from:

The British Association for Counselling, 1 Regent Place, Rugby, Warwickshire CV21 2PJ.   Tel. (01788 578328)

For eligible social workers who wish to take the course as an Advanced Award in Social Work, funding may be available from your local Social Work Consortium.

It should also be mentioned that many students have gained funding from their employers. It is certainly worth investigating this possibility with your training department. We will be happy to provide any assistance if you need written correspondence etc.

Employers’ Training Funds

It should also be mentioned that many students have gained funding from their employers. It is certainly worth investigating this possibility with your training department. We will be happy to provide any assistance if you need written correspondence etc.

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Information Workshops

How to Find Out More About Us...

If you would like to meet and talk with KCC Course staff about your career and training needs, then come along to an Information session at either the London or Hertfordshire centres. We will be delighted to see you and a friend, relative  or work colleague who may be interested and involved in your training and future career.

The Information sessions are informal and give prospective candidates and other interested people the opportunity to find out what is involved with systemic training,  and how this approach to therapy practice could benefit you.

If you would like to attend a meeting, then please telephone KCC reception and ask to be reserved a place.

The workshops usually last for between one and half to two hours. Visitors should report to reception on arrival.

The current date planned are..

London   

(Timings for all dates: 6.45pm to 8.15pm)

 

Monday 11 February 2008

Monday 10 March 2008

Monday 7 April 2008

Monday 12 May 2008

Monday 9 June 2008

Monday 7 July 2008

 

Bookings:020 7720 7301

Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire         

For those interested in courses in these areas

contact our Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Administrator, Sandra Clarke:

She can be contacted on Tel. 01462 454648.

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Finances

Paying for the course...

It is important to note that your acceptance of a place means that you have accepted responsibility for full  payment of course fees and that fees are not refundable. The full course fee must be paid no later than  the first day of the course start or an instalment arrangement (selected from the KCC Options or an arrangement by agreement with our Accounts Department) must be in place including all facilitating  paperwork on the first day of the course.

Courses can be paid by cheque, bank transfer or direct debit or credit card*

Instalments...

It will be possible to pay fees by instalments.  Instalment options are only available to individuals paying for their own fees. To cover our costs, there are administration charges payable on instalment options.

MSc Years One and Two

There is an instalment charge of £10 per instalment.  Please note that there a maximum of 6 instalments available on Year One.

MSc Years Three and Four

Number of Instalments            Administration Charge

3 instalments                                       £58.00

6 instalments                                       £117.00

10 instalments                                     £235.00

* Please Note: a surcharge of 4% is added to payments by credit card.

 

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School of Social & Therapeutic Studies

Centre Staff

Directors:

Susan Lang (Chair) MA (Oxon), CQSW, DipST, DipMan 

Sanya Mastilovic Divac MSc, BA, BSc, Dip.ST, DSTTS

Karen Partridge PhD (Clinical).C.Psychol., BSc Hons. MSc, DipST

 

 

Paul Anthony MSc ST, MA (TTS), BSc, PGCE, Dip ASW,

Charlotte Chiu MSc, DSTTS, RMN, CPN

Iris Corrales MA (TTS), DipST,

Elizabeth Day MSc ST, DSTTS, Dip ASS, CQSW, AASW

Inger Gordon MA, CQSW, DipST, Cert ATS

Julia Jude MSc, DSTTS, CQSW, DipSS, BA(Hons), PGDip

Juan Carlos Lema DipST, DSTTS, DipSM

Nicola McCarry BA (Hons), MA, CQSW, DST, DSTTS

Enda Murphy DipST, DSTTS

Helen Mahaffey MSc, CQSW, BSc, Dip SW, AASW, Dip Y&C, DSTTS

Christine Oliver MSc, CQSW, RMN, DipST

Ben Palmer BA Hons, DipST

Adriana Penalosa-Clarke DipST, DSTTS

Dorothy Porter MA, DipST, CQSW, AASW, DipCP, BA (Hons)

John Quinn RMN. MSc ST

Miriam Richardson MSc ST, DSTTS, BA

Kaye Schreiber MA (TTS), SRN, RGN, RMN, DipST,

Mary Spence

Sharn Tomlinson DipST, DSTTS

 

M.A. / Postgraduate Diploma in Systemic Practice

(Teaching, Training and Supervision)

Sanya Mastilovic Divac MSc, BA, BSc, Dip.ST, DSTTS

Grace Heaphy M.A Dip. ST

Teresa Wilson DipST, DSTTS

John Burnham MPhil, CQSW, DipFT

Centre Staff

Peter Lang, BD, AKC Co-director

Martin Little,  MSc,  Dip Soc Admin Co-director

Charles Bell Team Co-ordinator

Christopher Gunstone Courses Registrar

Laina Kassim Administrator

Pauline Humphries Luton and Hertfordshire Customer Services

Stephanie Woodhead Counselling Service Secretary

Sandra Clarke Counselling Administrator

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How to Find Us

 

 

 

The KCC Foundation is situated five minutes walk from Vauxhall Bridge, Bus, Underground and Train Stations. The Foundation is in Trenchold Street which is a small turning about halfway along Wyvil Road. Wyvil Road runs between South Lambeth Road and Wandsworth Road. Either of these can be approached from Vauxhall Underground and Vauxhall overground train stations.

If you come by underground you will see upstairs the bus station and also a road leading under a Railway Bridge.

Going through the Bus Station will bring you in the direction of Wandsworth Road which has a tower building at its end. Going along Wandsworth Road will bring you to a large Sainsbury’s store and Wyvil Road is a turning opposite the entrance to this.

If you take the other route under the railway bridge you will be heading in the direction of South Lambeth Road and you will see the Inter Planetary Society. Walk along South Lambeth Road in the Stockwell / Brixton direction passing a small park on your left. At the traffic lights junction with Fentiman Road are some shops. Continue along South Lambeth Road and the next turning on the right is Wyvil Road.

 

The KCC Foundation is situated five minutes walk from Vauxhall Bridge, Tube and Train Stations.

 Please note that the KCC Foundation building is outside the Congestion Charging boundary.

 By Tube                  Vauxhall Tube Station (Victoria Line)

 By Train                  Vauxhall Train Station

 By Bus                  2, 36, 44, 77, 77a, 88, 156, 185,  196, 322, 344, 360, 436, 731

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