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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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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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 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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AMBIT for CYP Crisis Professionals
This training is designed for anyone working with young people in crisis and their families.
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An Introduction to Child and Young Person Crisis Mental Health: For registered clinicians and practitioners
This training is designed for registered/qualified clinicians and practitioners who might be experienced, but new to working with children and young people who are in crisis.
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An Introduction to Child and Young Person Crisis Mental Health: For non-registered clinical staff/practitioners
This training is for members of the crisis workforce who have regular contact with children and young people in crisis and/or their parents and carers, and are not formally clinically tr...
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An Introduction to Child and Young Person Crisis Mental Health: For administrative staff
This training is designed for people who work in administrative and business support roles, in teams that work with children and young people in crisis.
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Motivational Interviewing and Mentalization for CYP Crisis Professionals
This training introduces motivational interviewing, grounded in mentalizing theory, as a model for brief interventions with children and young people in mental health crisis.
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
This training provides psychoanalytically/dynamically trained practitioners with a structure to conduct a time-limited, manualised psychodynamic therapy.
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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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Neurodiversity Week: Autism in DIT
One-day training for DIT practitioners on neuro-affirming autism approaches, therapy adaptations, client engagement, and fostering resilience.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) Refresher
Learn more about our Dynamic Interpersonal Training (DIT) Refresher training.
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Group DIT 2 Day Training
Two-day CPD event to introduce a model for providing Group DIT, that will link to the key group analytic competences, adaptations to the DIT individual model at all three phases of DIT.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) for Complex Care
This training is a two-day advanced training that supports qualified DIT practitioners to apply the model to a complex patient group in secondary care.
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) Supervisor Refresher
This training is an opportunity provided by Anna Freud to enhance practitioners' professional development by becoming a qualified DIT supervisor.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
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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 (IPT) Brief
This training is designed for accredited IPT practitioners and supervisors, offering in-depth insights into the evidence, assessment processes, and techniques unique to IPT-B.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training Adolescent (IPT-A)
Learn more about our Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training for Adolescents with depression (IPT-A).
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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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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (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 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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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
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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Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Practitioner
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 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 (MBT) Adult
Explore mentalization skills for working with adults in this 4-hour training. This training is a prerequisite for MBT basic training and is ideal for professionals.
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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 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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Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Basic Training
Structured Clinical Management (SCM) is an evidenced based approach that enables generalist mental health practitioners to work effectively with people with borderline personality disord...
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Structured Clinical Management CPD Workshop
Join our CPD workshop for SCM practitioners to explore neurodiversity, complexity, co-morbidity, and updates in Structured Clinical Management practices.
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The Lighthouse MBT Parenting Programme
The Lighthouse Parenting Programme is an evidence-based intervention, underpinned by research in the fields of attachment, child development, trauma, neuroscience and by core psychoanaly...
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Reflective Practice and Supervision Training
Learn about the purpose of staff peer supervision and how set up supervision opportunities in your school or college.
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Mentalization-Based Treatment: Reflective Parenting
Learn more about our Mentalization-Based Treatment: Reflective Parenting training.
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Mentalizing Inside, Outside, and Beyond 7th International MBT Conference (Online)
Join our online event for the Mentalizing Inside, Outside, and Beyond 7th International MBT Conference on 12 and 13 June 2025, jointly organised by Anna Freud and MBT Denmark.
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Mentalizing Inside, Outside, and Beyond 7th International MBT Conference (In-person)
Join our upcoming in-person Mentalizing Inside, Outside, and Beyond 7th International MBT Conference on 12 and 13 June 2025, taking place at the University of Copenhagen, jointly organis...
National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP)
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Adult Inpatient Mental Health Settings Training
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 Training
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 Training
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 Training
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 Training
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 Training
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.
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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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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Story Stem Assessment Profile Training
The Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) is a clinical and research assessment tool for use with clinical and maltreated populations.
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Story Stem Assessment Profile 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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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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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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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).