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Training Days:

The next course will run on the following dates:

There will be a 20-minute coffee/tea break in the morning and a 40-minute lunch break at 12.20pm to 1pm.

This course will be delivered live via Zoom and will not be recorded.

You will need a device with a microphone and camera together with a suitably fast internet connection. Although mobile devices and tablets can be used, we recommend the use of laptop or desktop PC for the best experience. Some devices provided by employers may have restrictions in place. Please use this test link (https://zoom.us/test) to check your set up before booking.

You will be sent the necessary login link about a week before the course start date.

Should you have any concerns about the accessibility of remote delivery please contact us at CPDEvents@tavi-port.ac.uk to discuss how we can best help you.

Indication of training hours (total 114 hours)

Basic course (48 hours):

Pre-training videos = 1 hour

Read manual and literature = 12 hours

Attendance 7 x 5 hours = 35 hours

(of which 7 x 4 hours of teaching = 28 hours)

Practice family (57 hours):

Home visit (HV) 1 (recording only) = 1 hour

HV 2-7: 6 x 2 hours = 12 hours (travel time not included)

Prepare home visits for intervention (scripts) = 44 hours, as follows:

– HV 2 & 3: 2 x 8 hours = 16 hours

– HV4 = 10 hours

– HV5, 6 & 7: 3 x 6 hours = 18 hours

Supervision (6 hours):

Individual online sessions 6 x 1 hours = 6 hours

Assessment (3 hour):

Assessment meeting = 1 hour

Preparing for assessment = 2 hours

This course provides intensive training in the use of VIPP-SD. It begins with four full days of training (split over seven shorter days when delivered remotely) where you will be introduced to the theoretical and empirical basis of the VIPP-SD method. Over these training days you will be taught how to apply the elements of VIPP-SD and be given guided practice by means of videotaped mother-child interactions.

Comprehensive feedback will follow each practice assessment, led by experienced instructors.

Following the seven online seminars, you will identify a family with whom you will deliver the intervention. Alongside this, you will be supported via monthly supervision with an experienced supervisor, to prepare for the home visits with the family.

Supervision trajectory:

In consultation with your supervisor, six online supervision meetings will be planned, between every home visit (HV). Please note that the supervision trajectory with the practice family should start within six months of the end of the VIPP-SD basic course. The assessment meeting will be planned after HV7.

In order to undertake this course, we ask that you work with children and families and have a remit to deliver the intervention.

Course material and literature

You will receive the VIPP-SD manual 3.0 and various additional training documents. We highly recommend the book: Promoting positive parenting: an attachment-based intervention (Juffer, Bakermans-Kranenburg & Van IJzendoorn, 2008). A list of additional literature on VIPP is provided in the manual, related publications are available upon request.

In preparation of the training, you are required to:

1. watch the three pre-training videos
2. read parts of the Manual, and
3. read an article

Practice family

Following the basic 7-day online VIPP-SD course, participants will put the method into practice with a training family. Individual online supervision meetings will be provided via Zoom with a supervisor, to prepare for the home visits with the training family. Therefore, participants will need to identify a training family as soon as possible before or during the course. This could be an acquaintance, a friend of a friend for example, with a child between the ages of 1 and 4 years. You will work with one parent and one child. Preferably, the family should be a practice family, and not a service user, because you are still learning, and you need to be able to make mistakes. In some cases, we will allow training with a service user.

You will visit the training family during 7 home visits. During HV1 you will get acquainted with the parent(s) and child and make recordings; this should take no more than 1 hour. The following home visits (HV 2-7) will be intervention sessions in which you will make new recordings and provide feedback on previous videos. Therefore, HV 2-7 will take approximately 1.5 -2 hours each. The home visits may be scheduled about 2-3 weeks apart. The completion of the supervision trajectory with the practice family thus takes approximately 3 to 4 months.

Equipment

Working with VIPP-SD means working with video as a professional. For the practice family you need a digital video camera and some (basic) editing equipment (e.g., Adobe premiere pro or Pinnacle Studio). Moreover, you will need a USB, DVD player or laptop that can be connected to TV with HDMI cables / or protected external hard drive when a smart tv is available in the home of the family you’re working with. And you will need different sets of toys to bring to the family during the home visits. The types of toys will be discussed during the training course.

Why study this course with us?

Education and training at the Tavistock and Portman is distinctive: we are one of very few providers in the UK that can offer education within an NHS mental health clinical setting. This means that our students can get access to real-time, real-life case studies and expertise and insight from working clinicians.

This programme is unique in equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to deliver this evidence-based intervention embedding practice through ongoing support, supervision and guidance.

Library membership

Included in your course fee, you will receive online membership to the Tavistock’s internationally-renowned library for the duration of your course.

Our friendly and knowledgeable library team will help to support you through your specialist CPD course, whatever your level of professional or academic experience. You will have access to an extensive range of eBooks, online journals, all the relevant key databases and our specialist audio-visual collection, plus reference access to all our print books.

Our Information Skills Trainer has made lots of material available on Moodle to help you navigate our comprehensive electronic collections. PCs and photocopiers are available for your use (charges apply for printing and copying), as well as various online resources including audio/video playlists. Find out more.