scholarly journals Psychotherapy training and experience of successful candidates in the MRCPsych examinations

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 604-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim S. Hwang ◽  
Lynne M. Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Cognitive Psychotherapy

We conducted a survey of the psychotherapy training of a national sample of successful MRCPsych candidates to discover the extent of their psychotherapy training and their opinion about its adequacy. Ninety doctors answered the survey. Overall 71% of trainees had clinical experience in behavioural–cognitive psychotherapy and 78% in psychodynamic psychotherapy with fewer gaining experience in group and family psychotherapies. The majority of trainees were dissatisfied with the extent of their behavioural-cognitive psychotherapy training (82%) and psychodynamic training (50%). Trainees felt that their psychotherapy training was an important component of their psychiatric training.

scholarly journals Guidelines for psychotherapy training as part of general professional psychiatric training

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 695-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Grant ◽  
Jeremy Holmes ◽  
Jim Watson
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Training

scholarly journals Behavioural-cognitive psychotherapy training for psychiatrists

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stern
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Problem ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
Observable Behaviour ◽  
New Treatments ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Synaptic Level ◽  
Cognitive Psychotherapy

“The therapist can cite Bertrand Russell's observation that the degree of certainty with which one holds a belief is inversely related to the truth of that belief. Fanatics are true believers, scientists are sceptics”. (Beck et al, 1979)I propose to describe the evolution of behavioural treatments, and the more recent leap forward made by cognitive therapy. Exciting new treatments are now available that did not exist when I was a trainee. The accepted term for these treatments is “behavioural-cognitive psychotherapy’ (BCPT). They are behavioural in the sense that emphasis is on observable behaviour, e.g. avoidance of supermarkets in agoraphobia. They are cognitive because many approaches involve working with patients' thoughts, e.g. the negative thinking of depressed patients. The treatment is psychotherapy as it is therapy that works at the mind level, rather than at say the synaptic level as pharmacotherapy does. BCPT combines well with pharmacotherapy, and other therapeutic methods such as social therapy, and so is suitable for a multidisciplinary approach to a psychiatric problem, as well as offering specific techniques for identified disorders.

scholarly journals What is it about dynamic psychotherapy?

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 313-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Dracass ◽  
Taryn Tracey ◽  
Kamaldeep Bhui
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
The Uk

The new Modernising Medical Careers agenda in the UK raises concerns about maintaining the standard of psychotherapy training (Mizen, 2007). In 1993 the Royal College of Psychiatrists made psychotherapy a mandatory rather than recommended work experience and there is now a competency portfolio outlining requirements for trainees. However, startling data have been revealed recently, showing that 91% of senior house officers did not meet the requirements of the Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) exam regarding psychotherapy training and 23% were not even aware of them (Agarwal et al, 2007). the quality and variability of psychotherapy experience in training have been surveyed in several papers (Podlesjka & Stern 2003; Carley & Mitchison 2006; Pretorius & Goldbeck 2006), and some solutions to practical problems with its provision have been proposed, for example, consultation from a consultant psychotherapist, utilising feedback from trainees, and focusing on practicalities and logistics at a local level (Wildgoose et al, 2002; Mitchison 2007). However, little has been said about trainees' own experiences of undertaking supervised practice in psychodynamic psychotherapy. This paper discusses trainees' outlook on psychotherapy training schemes.

scholarly journals Trainees' experience and attitudes to behavioural–cognitive psychotherapy training

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 351-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne M. Drummond ◽  
Rosalind L. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
The South ◽  
West Region ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Cognitive Psychotherapy

We performed a survey to examine the behavioural–cognitive psychotherapy teaching and experience of trainee psychiatrists in the South Thames (West) Region. Sixty-four per cent of the whole sample who responded to the survey, including 90% of the registrars who responded, had treated at least one patient using behavioural cognitive methods. Few trainees reported no experience of behavioural cognitive psychotherapy with almost all attending some form of teaching. Trainees generally reported that they valued this experience.

scholarly journals A survey of psychotherapy training among psychiatric trainees

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 536-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross J. Hamilton ◽  
Diana Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Core Element ◽  
The Future

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has stressed that psychotherapy skills are seen as a core element of psychiatric practice. To formalise this a new set of guidelines for psychotherapy training as part of general professional psychiatric training was published in November 1993. Concerns have been expressed over the implementation of previous guidelines from 1986. We have surveyed the psychotherapy training experience in our area and have worked with the psychotherapy department to address the findings. The future of training in the psychotherapies and implementation of the most recent guidelines are considered.

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