Foundation Certificate in Transactional Analysis

This course will give you the tools to effectively use TA concepts
in your personal and professional life. This may include the following: enhancing relationships; improve communication skills; reduce harmful or destructive behaviours and/or thought processes; develop new strategies for coping with difficulties; enhance and improve your sense of well-being.

This is a one-year part time course. Attendance is usually one two day block per month over ten months per year.

The purpose of this course is to offer students a thorough grounding in the theoretical principles and concepts used in Transactional Analysis. It is for people who either wish to integrate Transactional Analysis into their existing professional practice whether that is as a health professional, teacher, social worker, or counsellor etc or for people who wish to train as a psychotherapist but who do not have sufficient training to go onto the Graduate Certificate course or who wish to undertake the TA Pathway through the Graduate and Postgraduate programme.

The year consists of three modules, 2 single modules and 1 double module. Each single module equates to 15 credits, and contains 30 hours of tutor contact time and 120 hours self-directed learning. The double module equates to 30 credits and contains 60 hours tutor contact time and 240 hours of self directed learning, tutorials are also available on request. The course is taught and assessed at graduate level 6. In order to successfully pass each module you will need to have achieved a minimum of 80% attendance and a pass mark in each assignment.

The taught elements of the course are held over weekends, a total of ten 12-hour weekends - 120 teaching hours in all per year.