Training for Health and Social Care Settings
Develop the key skills needed to support children and young people's mental health and wellbeing with our range of training courses for Health and Social Care settings and beyond.
Our evidence-based training courses have been written by mental health clinicians and sector experts.
We offer both shorter and more intensive training courses for staff in a number of different settings that support children and young people's mental health directly and indirectly.
We have a range of courses, so that you can find the training solution that fits your needs.
Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT)
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Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) Gathering
The AMBIT Gathering is a chance to meet, talk and share with others around the world doing similar work to you.
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AMBIT Client Skills Workshop: Applying Mentalizing in Face-to-Face Client Work
The AMBIT client skills workshops are for AMBIT-trained individuals or teams and provide evidence-based theory and practical skills for working with specific issues, in AMBIT-influenced ...
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AMBIT Supervisor/Practice Lead Training
Learn more about our AMBIT Supervisor/Practice Lead training.
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AMBIT Multi-Team Training
AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment) is a mentalization-based approach for teams and systems working with people who have multiple needs.
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AMBIT: Local Facilitator Training
AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment) is a mentalization-based approach for teams and systems working with people who have multiple needs.
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The AMBIT AIM cards: A remote and face-to-face tool for direct client work
Helping professionals apply mentalizing in their face-to-face client work.
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AMBIT Client Skills Workshop: Applying Mentalizing in Face-to-Face Client Work
The AMBIT client skills workshops are for AMBIT-trained individuals or teams and provide evidence-based theory and practical skills for working with specific issues, in AMBIT-influenced ...
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AMBIT Client Skills Workshop: Applying Mentalizing to Work with Families
The AMBIT Client Skills workshops are for AMBIT-trained individuals or teams and provide evidence-based theory and practical skills for working with specific issues, in AMBIT-influenced ...
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AMBIT Client Skills Workshop: Mentalizing, Criminality and Violence
Learn more about our AMBIT Client Skills Workshop: Mentalizing, Criminality and Violence training.
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AMBIT Client Skills Workshops: Substance Use
Learn more about our AMBIT Client Skills Workshops: Substance Use training.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Mentalization
This training is designed for psychotherapists who would like to find out more about mentalization.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) 5-day
Learn more about our Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) 5-day training.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) 20-Day training programme
Providing psychoanalytically/dynamically-trained practitioners with a structure for time-limited therapy.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Long-Term Health Conditions
This one day CPD event will examine how we can use the DIT model to provide a meaningful therapeutic intervention for long term health conditions, including Long Covid.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) for Complex Care
Learn more about our Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) for Complex Care training.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) Supervisor training - Part 1
Learn more about Part 1 of our Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) Supervisor Training.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) Refresher
Learn more about our Dynamic Interpersonal Training (DIT) Refresher training.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) CPD Day: Attachment and DIT
Learn more about our Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): Attachment and DIT CPD day.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT)
This six-day course provides introductory training for practitioners in IPT and reflects the IPT competency framework.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Refresher
The clinically focused workshop will provide a refresher for recently trained IPT therapists and will focus on how to implement the key objectives of the IPT model in routine practice.
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Mentalization Skills in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
This workshop is aimed at IPT practitioners and supervisors with an interest in exploring and consolidating their use of Mentalization techniques in IPT.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training for Adolescents with Depression (IPT-A)
Learn more about our Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training for Adolescents with depression (IPT-A).
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Perinatal
This six-day course provides introductory training for practitioners working in perinatal specialist services in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT).
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) - Supervising Perinatal
The one day course will highlight relevant perinatal IPT evidence and key additional issues to be considered when supervising trainee working in specialist perinatal services.
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IPT Supervisor Training
The course aims to develop advanced skills in group and individual supervision of IPT practice.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Supervisor - Refresher day
Learn more about our Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Supervisor refresher day.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) - Supervising the Supervisor
This workshop will provide training for accredited IPT supervisors who wish to work with trainees working to an advanced level of practice and/or who are completing training as IPT super...
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Moving from Adults to Adolescent - How to use IPT in adolescent population or in a family context
Learn more about our Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Moving from Adults to Adolescent training.
Mentalization-Based Treatments (MBT)
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Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT): Basic Training
Discover Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) and explore innate mentalizing skills for diverse disorders, from BPD to families and adolescents.
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Mentalizing and Mentalization-Based Treatment with Adults (MBT Adult): An Introduction
Explore mentalization skills for working with adults in this 4-hour training. Ideal for professionals, it's a prerequisite for MBT Basic training. Access granted monthly for 10 months.
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Mentalizing and Mentalization Based Treatments with Children, Young People and Families (MBT CYP): An Introduction
Discover mentalization's applications for diverse groups in our online training. Build a strong foundation in theory for enhanced skills with children, young people, families, parents, c...
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children (MBT-C) - A Time-Limited Approach
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children (MBT-C) is a time-limited approach to working with children in middle childhood (ages 5-12) and their parents.
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder (MBT-ASPD)
This online training explores Mentalization-Based Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder (MBT-ASPD), providing a comprehensive understanding of ASPD and offering practical clinica...
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A)
Explore Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A), a proven approach addressing a spectrum of mental health needs in adolescents.
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F)
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Mentalization-Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F), providing a hands-on exploration of the model's essential elements.
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Mentalization-Based Treatment: Certificate Course - Practitioner Level
In this two-day workshop, you will expand previous knowledge, embed the basic skills of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), and enhance your expertise through hands-on demos and role pl...
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Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for Reflective Fostering
Introducing MBT Reflective Fostering—an innovative approach transforming foster care for children and young people.
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Online Practitioner Development Groups Mentalization Based Treatments with Children and Young People (MBT CYP) MBT-A, MBT-C, MBT-F
Learn more about our Online Practitioner Development Groups.
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Mentalization-Based Treatment: Reflective Parenting
Learn more about our Mentalization-Based Treatment: Reflective Parenting training.
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Mentalizing the Body in Research and Clinical Practice: Parental Embodied Mentalizing Assessment (PEMA™)
Parental Embodied Mentalizing Assessment (PEMA™) is an Intensive Clinical Training Program for Professionals Working with Infants and Parents.
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Structured Clinical Management CPD Event
Explore the distinctions between Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and other treatments for complex emotional and relational issues in both group and individual settings.
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Structured Clinical Management (SCM)
Learn about Anna Freud's Structured Clinical Management (SCM) training here.
National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP)
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Adult Inpatient Mental Health Settings
The four-day programme equips staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own adult inpatient mental health settings.
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Children and Young People Inpatient Mental Health Settings
This training will equip staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own children and young people inpatient settings.
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Adult Community Mental Health Settings
The four-day programme equips staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own adult community mental health settings.
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Community Settings
The four-day programme equips staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own CAMHS settings.
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Residential Special Schools and Colleges Settings
The four-day programme equips staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own residential special education settings.
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Health and Justice Settings
The four-day programme equips staff to trainer level and supports them to embed our approach and train staff in their own health and justice settings.
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Family Centred Approaches Specialist Refresher Day
A refresher training day on Family Centred Approaches when working with autistic adults and CYP.
Other training in Health and Social Care
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Assessment of Representational Risk on the Parent Development Interview (ARR-PDI)
Parent Development Interviews (Slade et al, 2004) that tap into parents’ representations of their child, themselves as parents, and the parent-child relationship can provide rich and mea...
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Parent-Infant Relational Assessment Tool - PIRAT Global Scales Training
Learn more about our Parent-Infant Relational Assessment Tool - PIRAT Global Scales training.
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Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP)
Learn more about our Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP) training.
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Supervision in the Early Years
This training is for professionals and clinicians working in infant and early-years mental health looking to take on a supervisory role.
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Reflective Functioning on Adult Attachment Interview (RF-AAI)
This Reflective Functioning on Adult Attachment Interview (RF-AAI) training will teach you how to assess a person’s mentalizing capacity.
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Reflective Functioning on Parent Development Interview (RF-PDI)
Learn more about our Reflective Functioning on Parent Development Interview (RF-PDI) training.
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Introducing Mentalizing: Working with Parents and Infants
This training aims to introduce mentalizing as a framework for understanding parent infant relationships and how professionals can work towards enhancing parental mentalizing.
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Story Stem Assessment Profile Training
The Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) is a clinical and research assessment tool for use with clinical and maltreatment populations.
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Story Stems Assessment Profile (SSAP) Refresher
The Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) is a clinical and research assessment tool for use with clinical and maltreatment populations.
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Traumatic bereavement: Supporting children and young people at school or college
A course developed by the UK Trauma Council designed to help young people cope with their expereinces.
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Traumatic bereavement: working therapeutically with children and young people
This training is designed to help bereaved children and young people cope with their trauma.
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Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) for Children and Young People with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
An intervention treatment for children and young people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Family Ties: Therapeutic assessment and treatment of high conflict separated parents and their children
Learn more about our Family Ties: Therapeutic assessment and treatment of high conflict separated parents and their children training.
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A practical approach to assessing children and families in court proceedings
This training presents a model of assessment of families in court proceedings that has been developed at Anna Freud for over 15 years.
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Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS)
FACTS is a unique, carer-led training programme for carers of people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)/ Emerging Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD).