Our IPT Refresher Days provide top up training for all Practitioners and Supervisors who are wishing to refresh their IPT skills.
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IPT Practitioner Refresher Training
This event is suitable for trainees who are looking for top up training, for practitioners who wish to refresh their IPT skills and for IPT Practitioners and Supervisors who are looking for CPD hours. This is also suitable for those who have let their accreditation lapse and wish to renew.
- Location: Online
- Date: 2026 dates will be confirmed later in the year
- Time: 9:15 am - 4 pm
- Fees: £150 for 2 days or £100 for 1 day
Day 1
- Revision - What are the IPT strategies?
- Break out and group exercises
- General competencies re-visited
- Linking Depression to the interpersonal context
- Structuring the sessions
- Common difficulties in treatment and how to improve competencies
- Listening and rating an early phase session from a student
Day 2
- Formulation – revisited
- Skills practice – supervisee, supervisor and observer exercise – referencing the Therapy Record
- How to facilitate greater emotional affect
- IPT Depression and the Body
- Afternoon
- Listening and rating session 4 formulation, goal setting and contracting
IPT Supervisor Refresher Training
This training is suitable for supervisor trainees who are looking for top-up training, or for supervisors who wish to refresh their IPT skills. This is also suitable for those who have let their accreditation lapse and wish to renew. Trainees can attend any day. CPD certificates will be issued on attendance.
- Location: Online
- Date: To be announced
- Time: 9:15 am - 4 pm
- Fees: £150 for 2 days or £100 for 1 day
Monday 10th February 2025
- Case work 5 & 6 to date? Are we on track?
- Describe your experiences of being supervised as a trainee.
- Supervision exercise and triad work - see Appendix 6 from your handbooks.
- Skills practice – rating student work, using audio clippings.
- Task for trainees
- Supervisor Progress Report – interim
- How are we getting on with the Reflective Therapy Record?
- Applications and evidence base in IPT.
- Listen and rate a Dispute case – provided by a student.
Monday 10th March 2025
- How are we getting on with Cases 5 and 6.
- The role of supervision.
- Models of supervision.
- A Cyclical Model – 5 stage model.
- Guidelines for structuring IPT supervision
- Common issues in IPT supervision
- Peer supervision work – rating audio recordings
- Listen and rate Sensitivity work
Tuesday 8th April 2025
- Casework to date and feedback
- Endings in IPT
- Supervision competencies
- Rating a trainee supervisor’s work and listening to clippings – group exercise
- Appendix 6 – see your handbooks.
- Completing Form 10
- Completing the Supervision Progress Form with your supervisor
- Working in your pairs with cases 5 and 6
- Listen and rate an end phase session.
Testimonials
- Supportive, dynamic and collaborative
- The trainers and the balance of activities, e.g group work, PowerPoint
- listening/watching tapes of sessions
- Very well organised, relevant topics covered, excellent delivery and opportunities to participate throughout
- Very knowledgeable and accessible
- Excellent, from admin communication to what was covered on the day. The facilitators were very knowledgeable and invited contributions throughout the session.