Available courses

• Help and support for students

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  You can find our guide to collaborative learning here, and a FAQ discussion forum.

  If you are still stuck, having looked at both of these, you can email help@dilemmatraining.com for further assistance

  

• Qualitative research methods

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  A ten week course covering:

  1. Human and social science methods vs. natural science methods
  2. Induction and theory building.  Hermeneutics, interpretation, personal meaning and subjectivity, narrative versus objective truth.  Experience vs. reality.
  3. Grounded theory and thematic methods, discourse analysis, participant-observation, template analysis
  4. Phenomenological approaches
  5. Formulating a research question.
  6. Locating and selecting research participants.
  7. Methods of data collection and validation.  Semi-structured and unstructured interviews.
  8. Illustrations, anecdotes, case studies.  The role of rhetoric in science and practice.  Self-reflection.  Reflexivity.  Ethical considerations.
  9. Designing and conducting qualitative research.\
  10. Mixing methods: the relative strengths and limitations of qualitative and quantitative research.  Mixed qualitative methods.

• University of Sheffield- Dissertation Students

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  This is a general discussion forum for all students registered with the University of Sheffield

  

• Glossary of psychotherapy terms

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  A glossary of psychotherapy terms in Dutch, French and English

  

• IS00 Getting started with Island courses

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  This short course provides an overview of the septimus learning environment, and how to use it.

  

• IS01/ PTS 1050 Well-being Island- Well-being and health

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou
  • Teacher: Digby Tantam
  • Teacher: Gideon Menda
  • Teacher: Chris Blackmore

  A ten week course, covering different viewpoints on well-being and relationship to health:

  1. Introduction, definitions, and interrelations between topics
  2. philosophy
  3. health economics
  4. psychology
  5. medicine
  6. spirituality
  7. psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching
  8. values
  9. relationships
  10. being well remembered

  

• IS02 / PTS 1010 Existence Island - Existential issues

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou
  • Teacher: Chris Blackmore
  • Teacher: Gideon Menda

  A ten week course, covering different viewpoints on existential and human issues:

  1. Do people have a nature? What happens to it during crises or transitions, or when facing death?  What part do emotions play in resolving these crises?
  2. Anxiety in depth
  3. Sexuality: does sexual passion exist to provoke existential crises, or does it hold relationshiPTS together and so reduce crisis?
  4. Where am I going in my life? Meaning
  5. Life event theory and its link to crisis theory
  6. Large brains and large social groups: do they determine what is human about human nature?
  7. Intimate communication and bonding; anonymous communication and individuation
  8. Intimacy
  9. Loss
  10. How and when we find out who we really are: if we really are anyone, or if we really ever know

  

• IS03/ PTS 2010 Reconciliation Island - Conflict and Reconciliation

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou
  • Teacher: Chris Blackmore
  • Teacher: Gideon Menda
  • Teacher: Moira Brimacombe

  A ten week course covering why some conflicts fail to resolve, professional approaches to conflict management, social and psychological dimensions of conflict, and the impact of conflict upon the person, the couple, the family, the group, the organization, and the nation.

  

• IS04/ PTS 2050 Therapy Island - Theories of personal change

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou
  • Teacher: Chris Blackmore

  A ten week course covering:

  1. scheme for classifying and analysing psychotherapy and counselling approaches
  2. why interpersonal problems do not spontaneously resolve, and theories of people getting ‘stuck’
  3. addiction as an explanation of ‘stuckness’
  4. personality and its use as an explanation of resistance or inability to change, or as a source of resilience
  5. theories of how personality develops and how, if at all, it changes
  6. psychoanalytic theories of personality in professional practice and popular culture
  7. Schema theory and cognitive approaches to psychotherapy
  8. Group psychotherapy and theories of interpersonal change factors
  9. Narrative theories

  Synthesis

  

• IS05 / PTS 2040 Ethics Island - Ethics in psychotherapy and counselling

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou
  • Teacher: Chris Blackmore

  A 5 week course covering different aspects of Ethics in psychotherapy and counselling

  

• IS06 Culture Island - Cultural Competence in psychotherapy and counselling

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  A 5 week course covering different aspects of Cultural Competence in psychotherapy and counselling

  

• IS07 / PTS 1060 Development Island - Development through the life span

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  A ten week course covering different aspects of ethics.

  

• University of Sheffield- Assessment details

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  

• YouTube channel

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  This channel is dedicated to Continuing Education in Psychotherapy, and to the CEP project, funded by the Leonardo da Vinci fund of the EU, which has partners at the University of Sheffield (UK), Dilemma Consultancy in Human Relations ltd (UK), the University of Bordeaux (France) and the University of Leuven (Belgium)

  

• NSPC staff room

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

• NSPC students

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  These are the course webpages for NSPC students

  

• F01 Recognizing autism spectrum conditions and disorders

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  Indications that a person has an ASC, and when an ASC becomes an ASD; what is the fundamental handicap; what are some of the associated problems; diagnosis and who should make it

  

• L01 Getting Going with Moodle

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  This course is provided by the Moodle community, and not by Dilemma Training.

  

• L02 Getting Going on the Internet

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  Level: Introductory, professional development, masterclass. No previous learning required, but a worthwhile introduction to all of our courses

  Price: Free

  Expected number of hours of study: 3

  Accreditation (if any): None

  Synopsis: This course will show you how to get started on the internet so that you can successfully (and painlessly) participate in our other internet courses.

  

• L03 Getting Going with Internet Study

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  
  

  Level: Introductory, professional development,masterclass. No previous learning required, but a worthwhileintroduction to all of our courses

  Price: Free

  Expected number of hours of study: 3

  Accreditation (if any): None

  Synopsis: This course introduces some of the techniques that make for good study, with a particular emphasis on what is available to help you on the internet, and on our site

  

• L04 Introduction to psychotherapy

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou

  Don't know anything about psychotherapy, but want to know more? Take this free course, and find out what CBT stands for, why psychoanalysis is so expensive, whether psychotherapists do talk about sex a lot and, most importantly, what psychotherapists can do to help people have happier, and maybe even longer, lives.

  

• L05 Introduction to existential psychotherapy

  • Teacher: Susan Iacovou