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.

scholarly journals The Future of the Membership

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Sydney Brandon
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Private Practitioners ◽  
The Future ◽  
Minimum Requirements

The question has been posed—is an examination necessary to admit to the membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists? The College represents the views of psychiatrists, maintains the standards of the profession, regulates and monitors practise and accepts a broad overall responsibility for education. It should admit to its membership those who practice as psychiatrists. Who then are the psychiatrists? Should the membership be open to anyone who makes such a claim or should it be linked with appointment to specific jobs as a psychiatrist at a level yet to be determined? What of private practitioners, interested GPs? Surely anyone who wants to be a psychiatrist, to paraphrase Sam Goldwyn, ought to have his head examined by his peers to establish that his claim to be a psychiatrist is acceptable. It is the College which should regulate entry into the profession of psychiatry, not the National Health Service, an employing authority, or even the universities. Some membership entrance conditions are needed which lay down minimum requirements for becoming a psychiatrist and it is important to exclude or reject, in my view, before higher psychiatric training commences.

scholarly journals Experience in group analytic psychotherapy

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Rees
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Group Experience ◽  
Limited Duration ◽  
Training Grant

The Royal College of Psychiatrists classifies group psychotherapy as required experience for psychotherapy training as part of general psychiatric training (Grant et al, 1993). This is defined as group experience in in-patient and/or out-patient settings, with an experienced co-therapist and/or supervision. Previous surveys estimate that the percentage of trainees gaining such experience ranges from only 9% (Arnott et al, 1993) to 58% (Hwang & Drummond, 1996). The limited duration of psychiatric training does not allow experience in all types of psychotherapy and trainees must therefore be selective in respect to their own training, depending on what is available.

scholarly journals A modernised psychotherapy curriculum for a modernised profession

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chess Denman
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Training Curriculum ◽  
Psychiatry Training ◽  
The Core

SummaryThis paper outlines recent revisions to the psychotherapy elements of the core psychiatric training curriculum of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The reasons why psychotherapy training is important as part of psychiatry training are developed and objections to the inclusion of this element are countered. The paper sets out the reasoning that led to the revisions in the training required and discusses the obstacles to the implementation of good-quality training in this area and suggests ways in which they can be overcome.

What should psychiatric trainees in years 1–3 gain from CBT training? Implications from a Royal College Divisional Workshop

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Moorhead ◽  
Adrian Lloyd ◽  
John Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Brief Psychotherapy ◽  
Regional Meeting ◽  
Specialist Practice ◽  
Further Development

AbstractCompetencies for psychiatric training have been developed that reflect what psychiatrists have to be able to do in order to function in their role. Although the need for a formally delivered psychotherapy experience is assumed and associated competencies are represented in the curriculum, it is not clear which competencies thereby achieved can be translated into generic practice. This paper reports the outcomes of a workshop held at an academic regional meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Potential competencies to be achieved following training and experience in CBT were presented. Small group review of the frameworks and subsequent feedback demonstrated broad support for requirements of CBT knowledge and attitudinal competencies that could inform day-to-day practice, within a generic psychotherapeutic skills framework. New competencies that were related to CBT and considered meaningful in daily psychiatric practice emerged. Further development of these ideas from the workshop in this paper leads to a set of coherent competencies that would be helpful in non-CBT specialist practice and are congruent with the context of generic psychiatric practice. These enable models of training other than the delivery of a single ‘brief’ psychotherapy case to be considered.

scholarly journals Survey of psychotherapy training for psychiatric trainees in South-West England

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McCrindle ◽  
Joanna Wildgoose ◽  
Richard Tillett
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
South West ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
Telephone Questionnaire ◽  
South West England

Aims and MethodA telephone questionnaire to assess psychotherapy training in the 12 psychiatric training schemes in South-West England was conducted in April 1999. The findings were compared with the 1993 guidelines recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.ResultsOnly one scheme was achieving the standards set by the College guidelines. The majority of trainees in this region were not receiving adequate psychotherapy training.Clinical ImplicationsPsychotherapy training for psychiatric trainees needs urgent review in South-West England.

What is it about DID? A patient and clinician perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Amy Crellin ◽  
Melanie Temple
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
Neurological Findings ◽  
Mental Health Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions

SUMMARY The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID) remains a contentious area in mental health. Patients experiencing such difficulties are often harshly identified as suggestible neurotics and interested clinicians as fanatics. However, for the sufferer, DID is as real and has as much impact as any other psychiatric diagnosis. This commentary challenges psychiatry's dismissive and disbelieving attitude towards DID. The authors (a person with DID and a clinician) acknowledge the limited understanding of DID's aetiology and the paucity of associated neurological findings, but ask whether this is not the case for many other accepted psychiatric conditions. They call for UK psychiatric practice to move on from the debate and for the Royal College of Psychiatrists to take the lead, with inclusion of DID in core psychiatric training and guidelines on approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

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 Saints and Sinners: Arthur Espie Porritt

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
Wyn Beasley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Royal College ◽  
First World War ◽  
First Year ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
First World

Arthur Porritt, whose adventures, accolades and achievements spanned the globe, was both a surgeon himself and the son of a surgeon. His father, Ernest Edward Porritt, qualified in Edinburgh, became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1898, and practised in Wanganui in new zealand, where Arthur was born on 10 August 1900. His mother, Ivy McKenzie, died in 1914, when Arthur was in his first year at Wanganui Collegiate School; and when his father shortly went overseas to serve in the First World War, the boy became a boarder. The future Olympian distinguished himself as athletics champion, a member of the First XV and a prefect; and for a year after leaving school himself, he taught at a boys' school.

scholarly journals Tick, tock, lock: night-time confinement in high security – history, practice, ethics and practicalities

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ed Silva ◽  
Andrew Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Advisory Body ◽  
High Security ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk

SummaryNight-time confinement, locking patients in their bedrooms overnight, is practiced within high-secure hospitals in the UK. This article provides context, sets out the history and reviews the ethical and pragmatic issues at stake. Thought is given to the future, where we appear to be moving toward a different approach.Declaration of interestE.S. is a consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ashworth Hospital. All his patients are confined at night. He represents the Royal College of Psychiatrists Forensic Faculty at the National Oversight Group, which is the strategic advisory body providing assurance to NHS England regarding the commissioning and provision of high-secure services.

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