Psychological Therapies Training Centre Graduations
GMMH’s Psychological Therapies Training Centre (PTTC) held their final graduation ceremonies of 2024 on 17 September 2024. Two ceremonies were held at the Curve and celebrated the achievements of over 200 trainees who had completed one of 13 postgraduate training courses run by the PTTC.
The PTTC provides high quality training in evidence-based psychological therapies, in collaboration with the University of Manchester, who validate the programmes. They have been awarded a number of NHS England contracts regionally and nationally, to deliver training in an increasingly broad range of evidence-based psychological therapies including cognitive behaviour therapy, systemic family practice, and interpersonal therapy. The PTTC trains practitioners to work with a range of different problem types, in a variety of settings (including educational), and with client groups that include both adults and children and young people, as well as their carers and families. The overarching aim is to improve patient care by upskilling the psychological therapies workforce in the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions.
Freda McManus, Head of The Psychological Therapies Training Centre, said:
“Our trainees come from all over the region, and sometimes further afield, both from the NHS, and other public sector and voluntary services. Our courses are highly demanding and require a great deal of them. In addition, they are all adult learners, who have the usual complicated set of demands and responsibilities in their lives, so are having to juggle these, their usual jobs, and our requirements over a sustained period. The fact that people have reached the point of graduation reflects a high level of sacrifice and commitment.
The graduation ceremonies give us an opportunity to acknowledge the work that our trainees have done, and how much they have achieved in completing our programmes successfully and highlight the likely future benefit for service users and their families and carers, and we are very proud of them all.”
