psychiatrynorthwest - specialist registrar training in general adult psychiatry in the north west of england
   
 
Dr Phil Brown, Consultant Psychiatrist. Click here to enlarge photograph.

  
Dr Phil Brown

Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane North
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 4QF

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Description of placement

- Out-patient psychotherapy service.
- Assessment for psychotherapy.
- Psychotherapy treatments: Brief, Longer term individual psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive – analytic therapy, Group analytic therapy, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Supportive, psychodynamically informed, psychotherapy, Systemic/family marital therapy
- Consultation – staff groups
- In-patients in local units
- Supervision, teaching, training in psychotherapy
- ‘Balint Group’ case discussion/educational seminars
- Audit
- Management meetings
- Referrals meetings

 
Example of Specialist Registrar's Timetable
AM
MIDDAY
PM
MON
Research
 
(Session working as Public Health Consultant).
TUE

External psychotherapy course supervision,Blackpool.
Personal Therapy.

 
NWIDP Course (external psychotherapy training)
Gaskell House,Manchester.
(This was special interest session).
WED
Out-patient psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy New Assessment Clinic (with Dr. Brown . This clinic has subsequently had to move to Thursday afternoon)
 
Consultants’Meeting.
Local Academic Programme,Preston.
SHO Balint Group (with Dr. Brown).Clinical Work.
THU
 
 
 
FRI
Educational supervision with Dr. Brown.
Clinical
(Out-patients).
Clinical supervision with Dr. Brown.
 
 

A full-time trainee would attend each week at the Regional Academic Meeting of SpRs and Consultants in Psychotherapy at Gaskell House, Manchester and would attend audit, team, management, referral meetings on Monday mornings.

On call

On-call : 1 : 15