Experience-Based Competency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

A competency-based parent training program for child abusers.

An Outcome Evaluation of Competency Based Training for Child Welfare

In response to the continuing need for competent child welfare professionals, a largemid-western university’s College of SocialWork collaborated with a public childwelfare agency to design and implement a one year,Title IV-E-funded training opportunity for second-yearMSWstudents. Student outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, attitudes about child welfare, and field of post-graduation emplo...

Competency-based Training

ACGME Competency Project Training Modules: The University of Rochester designed six practical modules for residencies and fellowships based on competency objectives which are available in downloadable format. Topics such as Pain Management, Communicating Bad News, Informed Consent and Capacity are included. Each module provides objectives, formats, readings, slides, test questions and evaluatio...

The State of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Research

Child and adolescent therapy has progressed considerably, as reflected in the number of controlled studies, their methodological quality, and identification of evidence-based treatments. The progress is qualified by several characteristics of the therapy research that depart from the characteristics of clinical practice. Key areas of research are being neglected and this neglect greatly limits ...

EDUCATION AND TRAINING Experience in group analytic psychotherapy

The Royal College of Psychiatrists classifies group psychotherapy as required experience for psychotherapy training as part of general psy chiatric training (Grant et al, 1993). This is defined as group experience in in-patient and/ or out-patient settings, with an experienced cotherapist and/or supervision. Previous surveys estimate that the percentage of trainees gaining such experience range...