Bachelor in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to acquire multidisciplinary and modality independent basic knowledge and build more specific knowledge related to the children and adolescent psychotherapy modality. Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to obtain multidisciplinary basic knowledge in physical, emotional, cognitive and social development. They also need to be familiar with specific issues related to the developmental period of childhood and adolescence, and what kind of developmental disorders may occur in that period.

Training in children and adolescents psychotherapy is organized similarly to other psychotherapeutic modality training offered at SFU Ljubljana. The students of the bachelor study programme of Psychotherapy science can choose the specialisation of the modality of psychotherapy of children and adolescents modality in their 3rd year of studies, which they continue in the master studies of Psychotherapy science. Graduates of psychotherapy related disciplines (e.g. social work, special pedagogy, social pedagogy, psychology, biopsychology, and medicine) have a possibility to enrol in the modality training of psychotherapy of children and adolescents after they finish the required differential study program at SFU Ljubljana.