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Faculty of Psychotherapy

 

  • To advance both within and without the college all modalities of psychotherapy (cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and systemic) as an integral part of psychiatry.
  • To improve public knowledge of psychotherapy in the treatment of mental illness.
  • To increase theoretical and clinical knowledge of psychotherapy in the training of psychiatrists.
  • To promote research in psychotherapy.

 

 

The psychotherapy faculty advances these aims by:

 

  • Fostering the establishment of Consultant Psychotherapy posts, and development of psychotherapy departments in all Mental Health units.
  • Ensuring representatives are on appropriate committees in the College.
  • Having an active psychotherapy training committee developing and monitoring standards of psychotherapy training.
  • Responding to documents of relevance to psychotherapy, for example from the Department of Health.
  • Working with other organisations involved in the development of psychological treatments such as the British Psychological Society and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
  • Arranging annual conferences on topics of interest.

 

 

 

News

 

An Interface Working Group was convened between the Faculties of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy last year to address the training requirements for psychiatrists to work effectively in services capable of delivering psychological therapies according to the NICE Schizophrenia Guidelines. The NHS plan directed the development of functional teams to provide care for people with serious mental illness, (chiefly schizophrenia).

 

The impending major changes in post-graduate medical education provide an ideal opportunity to review the training needs of psychiatrists in the area of psychological therapies for psychosis. A debate about the range of skills required within the new functional teams to deliver effective and comprehensive care to people suffering from schizophrenia is ongoing.

 

This document was written to inform consultants and trainees about the range of trainings that are available in psychological therapies for schizophrenia. It also provides a text around which consultation can occur about the training and acquisition of psychological therapy skills within teams offering treatment to those with schizophrenia.

 

This document has already been to consultation with the Faculties of General and Community Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, the College of Occupational Therapists, the British Psychological Society and a member of the National PSI Implementation Group who is also a Nurse Consultant in PSI. A Service User and Carer Representative were part of the original Working Group and they also attended the Consultation Event on 09 June 2005.

 

Your comments on the document to date would be helpful in informing the advice on training in psychological therapies for psychosis.

 

 

Dr Sarah Davenport FRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist

 

 

 

Newsletters

 

Click below for the recent Faculty newsletters:

 

 

 

List of executive  

Member Status Position
Dr Kevin Healey Elected Chair
Dr Caroline Mizen Elected Vice Chair
Dr Lawrence Martean Co-opted SpR Representative
Dr William Burbridge-James Elected Committee Member
Dr Janice Birtle Elected Elected Member
Dr Katharine Dufton Co-opted Welsh Division
Dr Francesca Denman Co-opted Faculty Education Committee
Dr David Crossley Co-opted Welsh Division
Dr Robert Hobson Elected Committee Member
Dr James Johnston Elected Committee Member
Dr Ian Kerr Elected Committee Member
Dr David Kingdon Elected Committee Member
Dr Alyson Lee Co-opted Committee Member
Dr Stephen Miller Elected Committee Member
Dr Stirling Moorey Co-opted CBT
Dr Mark Morris Elected Committee Member
Dr Siobhan Murphy Co-opted Scottish Division
Dr Jenissa Tanna Co-opted SpR Representative
Dr Jale Punter 2008 (E) Elected Member
Dr Benjamin Wright Elected Co-opted Member
Dr Scott Hall Co-opted PTC Rep

 

How to join

Any member of the College is eligible to join the Psychotherapy Faculty. Please contact the College Membership Section.

 

 

Cognitive behaviour therapy group

 

Cognitive behaviour therapy has established itself as an essential component of care in all branches of psychiatry. It is the most widely researched of all psychological treatments and has amassed a wealth of evidence for its effectiveness. The CBT group of the Royal College consists of members of the Psychotherapy Faculty who have an interest in cognitive and behavioural methods.

 

It is open to all psychiatrists who are members of the College. Its aims are to represent CBT within the Psychotherapy Faculty, to support and develop CBT training and skills amongst psychiatrists and to provide a forum where psychiatrists practising CBT can exchange information and opinions.

 

A number of psychiatrists with an interest in CBT are currently on the Psychotherapy Faculty Executive:

 

  • Stirling Moorey (chair of the CBT group)
  • Doug Turkington
  • Chris Williams

 

Richard Fox and Stirling Moorey are members of the Psychotherapy Training Specialist Advisory Committee (PTSAC) and advise on SpR training in CBT.

 

Find out more about how to join this group and training in this field.

 

 

 

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