ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS. DIPLOMAS. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

  • BSc in Psychology

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Diploma in Children’s Therapy

  • Diploma in Depression Counselling

  • Diploma in Neuroplasticity

  • Diploma in Jungian Psychotherapy

  • Diploma in Secondary Education (Humanities) — Psychology, History, and Philosophy

MENTAL HEALTH
  • Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling

  • Certificate in Working with Anxiety

  • Certificate in Trauma, Anxiety and Mental Health

  • Certificate in Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

  • Certificate in Human Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

  • Certificate in Mental Health Awareness: hearing voices, psychotic episodes, hallucinations, treatments, Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), personality disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, counselling

  • Certificate in Autism Awareness

  • Certificate in Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disabilities

  • Certificate in Working with Challenging Behaviour

ATTACHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Certificate in Attachment Therapy

  • Certificate in Play Therapy (Children)

  • Certificate in Family and Couple Relationships

  • Certificate in Working with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnotherapy with Children and Adolescents

ADDICTION, SUBSTANCE USE AND RECOVERY

  • Certificate in Addiction: Neuroscience and Recovery Therapy

  • Certificate in Addiction: From Heroin to Workaholism — A Biopsychosocial Perspective

  • Certificate in Alcohol Misuse: diagnosis and dual diagnosis, abstinence and harm reduction, relapse and recovery, individual and group support

  • Certificate in Drug Misuse:
    GHB, benzodiazepines, hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin), inhalants, opioids, heroin, methadone, steroids, stimulants (amphetamines, ecstasy), cocaine and crack cocaine, nicotine, anaesthetics, PCP, ketamine, cannabinoid substances; caring for drug users; treatment, intervention, detoxification, diagnosis, and dual diagnosis

  • Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Changing Addictive Behaviour

SAFEGUARDING AND DUTY OF CARE

  • Certificate in Safeguarding and Protection of Adults

  • Certificate in Children Safeguarding

  • Certificate in Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults: abuse and neglect, criminal offences, rights violations, emotional and psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial and material abuse, institutional abuse, domestic abuse, modern slavery

  • Certificate in Risk Assessment and Risk Management

  • Certificate in Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

  • Certificate in Mental Capacity, Court of Protection, Advance Decisions, and IMCA Advocacy

  • Certificate in Anti-Radicalisation and PREVENT Awareness (Schools)

CLINICAL PRACTICE, COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
  • Certificate in Care Planning and Assessment: assessing care plans, continuity of care, promoting best interests

  • Certificate in Assessing Needs

  • Certificate in Safe Administration of Medicines

  • Certificate in Equality and Diversity

  • Certificate in Confidentiality and Information Governance

  • Certificate in Documentation and Record Keeping

  • Certificate in Data Protection, including GDPR

  • Certificate in Effective Communication: verbal and non-verbal communication, effective listening

  • Certificate in Conflict Management

SPECIALIST MODULES

  • Psychopathology (British Psychological Society accredited)

  • Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Psychology

  • Psychology Across Time and Cultures

  • Mechanisms of the Mind: emotion, perception and vision, thinking and reasoning, attention, social cognition

  • Cognitive and Biological Explanations of Behaviour: neuronal communication, basic genetics and evolution, ADHD

  • Psychological Interventions: families and parenting, psychology of education, psychosexual relationship therapy, counselling for depression

  • Individual Differences: intelligence, emotional intelligence, psychometric scales, theories of personality, psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, trait theories, cognitive and motivational factors

  • Developmental Psychology: Development across Lifespan

  • Social Psychology: Social and Cultural Explanations of Behaviour

  • Humanistic and Person-Centred Therapy

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Gestalt Therapy

  • Transactional Analysis Therapy

  • Forensic Sciences

  • Legal Psychology

  • Family Law and Child Mediation

  • Criminal Law, Crime Psychology and Criminology

  • Understanding Violence (Forms, Types and Reasons)

  • Organisation of Human Rights Bodies

  • Court-Appointed Expert Reports and Forensic Expert Evidence

  • Rhetoric and Advocacy Skills

  • Penal Enforcement

  • Political and Legal Doctrines

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