Special Needs

Part-Time Diploma Courses from the School of Infant Mental Health

The School of Infant Mental Health specialise in detecting early behavioural signs of autism and early intervention with pre-autistic babies and their families.

Options include:

• Infant Mental Health - 2 year course
• Parent Infant Psychotherapy - 4 year course
• A conversion option for qualified Psychotherapists and Counsellors - 2 year course
• Infant Family Programme for infants showing autistic behaviours - 1-2 year course

Training in Infant Mental Health includes: infant and young child observation; diagnostic classification for 0-3 years; work discussion; infant development theory and research; parent infant psychotherapy.

Flexible options are available through intensive weekend sessions with monthly supervision and private tutorials. You need to be working in a professional context with infants or pre-school age children and their families, eg: family centre worker, midwife, health visitor, GP, paediatrician, clinical psychologist, social worker, specialist nurse, nursery teacher or nursery nurse.