Systemic Therapy

Introduction

The Joint Training committee (JTC) has already agreed that, alongside CBT, Systemic therapy will be the Programme’s default additional therapy. The aim is that trainees will achieve these competences during their core placements in first two years of the Programme. A short narrated presentation can be found here which explains the Programme’s approach to systemic therapy in Child and Family placements and also in other areas such as Intellectual Disabilities and Older Adults:

Competence Framework

The Programme is using the UCL/CORE Systemic competence framework developed by Roth and Pilling as the basis for Systemic teaching and training and assessment on placement. This can be accessed here:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/cehp/research-groups/core/competence-frameworks/Systemic_Therapy

As this is very detailed, the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow programmes have distilled this down into core areas of skills we would expect trainees to achieve, as well as giving guidance on the types of experiences that would help trainees demonstrate their use of a Systemic informed approach. Our competence list can be found here: 

Structured Assessment

The Systemic Family Practice – Session Competence Scale can be found here:

This has been adapted for use in systemic work that involves a different system eg a staff group or a ward team. The measure can be found here