QQI Level 9 Post Graduate Diploma in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy

***Subject to validation by QQI***

• Award: QQI Postgraduate Diploma in Arts in Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (subject to validation)
• Start Date: September 2024
• Language requirement: If English is your second language you are required to submit an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) cert at Level 6.5, or equivalent. For more information, please click HERE
• Course Fees:
  • €6,775 for the year. Application fee €100(non-refundable)
  • Following successful interview, a deposit of €2,300 is required to secure place.

Who Should Apply

This 1-year programme will be of interest to practising counsellors and psychotherapists and play therapists who wish to extend their existing qualification in counselling and psychotherapy to work with children and adolescents.

Entry Routes:

• If English is your second language you are required to submit an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) cert at Level 6.5, or equivalent. For more information, please click HERE
• An honours degree, Level 8 on The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ), in counselling and psychotherapy, or equivalent.

OR

• An honours degree, Level 8 on the NFQ, plus a professional diploma in counselling and psychotherapy that meets with IACP/IAHIP course recognition standards (or equivalent). The diploma must have counselling and psychotherapy at its core.

Learners will be invited to an interview with faculty as part of the application process.

Delivery

The Postgraduate Diploma in Child and Adolescent Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy is delivered using blended learning. This consists of a rotational module, where learners attend onsite classes and online classes. We do not utilise hybrid approaches, therefore onsite classes are integral to the programme

Student Benefits & Support

We hold that it is not enough to simply teach the skills of counselling and psychotherapy. Learners are given the space to learn, practice and be supported as they extend the scope of their practice to work with children and adolescents.

Placement

100 hours of client work must be completed as part of this programme. Approx. 50 hours should be with children aged 6-11 and 50 should be with adolescents aged 12-17. A ratio of 60:40 is also allowable if a learner has a preference for working with one age group over the other. Clinical hours must be completed in an approved setting, after completion of an assessment of readiness to practice with younger clients. Learners are required to be in on-going clinical supervision, at a ratio of 1 hour of supervision to every 5 hours of clinical work regardless of accreditation status. Supervisors for this programme must be qualified, accredited therapists and supervisors with one of the main professional bodies in Ireland (i.e. IACP/IAHIP/BACP/IAPTP/APPI/FTAI). In addition, they must be experienced in supervision of clinical work with minors.

Assessment

Learners are assessed through a continuous assessment strategy, which includes a variety of mediums such as individual and group projects, skills training assessments, case studies and process recordings, written assignments, essays and a research portfolio.

Validation & Accreditation of Award

This Postgraduate Diploma is at Level 9 on the NFQ and is subject to validation by QQI.60 ECTS

Protection for Enrolled Learners

This programme is covered by arrangements under section 65 (4) of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 whereby, in the event of IICP College ceasing to provide the programme for any reason, enrolled learners may transfer to a similar programme at another provider, or, in the event that this is not practicable, the fees most recently paid will be refunded. Current PEL arrangements consist of a 2% levy on course fees. IICP do not pass the cost of this on to learners.

For further information visit our website 

QQI Level 9 PG Diploma in Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy - IICP College

or contact:
IICP Office – 0879055330
Email: admissions@iicp.ie