The Registrar Program is focussed on developing specialist skills in psychological practice

 Knowledge

Basic relational psychodynamic competencies

Psychological Assessment and Measurement

• Identifying supervisory expectations and responsibilities
• Initial assessment: ability to assess symptoms, personality functioning,
  psychodynamics, ability to assess suitability for a psychodynamic approach
• Formulation: Ability to derive a psychodynamic case formulation 
• Feedback informed therapy: Understanding of, and ability to implement, measures to inform therapy  

 Knowledge

• Understanding impacts of adversity and trauma 
• The role of neurobiology in understanding attachment relationships.  

Intervention Strategies Part 1

• ·Psychodynamic therapy, basic and specific techniques – e.g., ability to work with unconscious communication, ability to maintain an analytic/dynamic focus, ability to work in the transference and countertransference, ability to make a dynamic interpretation
• Fostering metacognitive awareness of self and other  

  Knowledge

• Models of intervention 

Intervention Strategies Part 2

• Drawing upon sensory-motor components in addressing adversity 
• Psychotherapy for severe mental illness (Lysaker) 
• Mentalisation based therapy for personality disorder 

Knowledge

• Supervisory competencies 
• Communication and Interpersonal Relationships 
• Self-Reflection and Reflective Practice