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Training Needs in Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Malcolm Burrell*
Affiliation:
Manchester Royal Infirmary
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This paper offers some personal experiences and views of the training needs of specialist psychotherapy posts within the National Health Service, with some consideration of the needs of non-specialist trainees hoping to learn psychotherapy skills. There are many levels on which one can consider psychotherapy training needs, a most important one being to identify what techniques should be learned, in what depth, and over what period of time.

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Trainees' Forum
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982

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