Live training
Taught live online by Dr Ben Grey and Juliet Kesteven, in standalone blocks of two to three days, redesigned to accompany the MotC handbook.
Delivered via Zoom, 10am to 4.30pm UK time. The coding course runs in two parts, with practice interview coding between and afterwards, supported by email and webinars; if completed, this can lead to a reliability test and accreditation.
Booking is through Ticket Tailor, which takes payment and sends tickets by email. Reduced rates are available to students, those who are unwaged, and those returning to a course as a refresher.
Offers the ingredients of MotC-informed practice: awareness and understanding of how parents talk and mentalise for their children and their caregiving, and what this implies for the parent-child relationship. A mixture of direct teaching and work with actual interviews with parents.
A standalone course, and the prerequisite for all further MotC training.
Teaches a formal method for interpreting parental discourse, how parents speak about their child and their parenting, in order to understand the parent-child relationship. On completing the reliability test to the required standard, participants may be accredited as reliable coders and code for themselves or others.
In live versions of the course, participants code practice transcripts between the main teaching sessions, supported by email and webinars.
Requires MotC Introduction: Principles of Practice, or the previous Part 1 course.
Looks at how to use attachment and caregiving theory in clinical practice. The approach is not about providing a diagnosis of generalised pathology, but about building an in-depth understanding of resources and difficulties in the context in which they occur, from which to think about support, intervention and, in some cases, risk.
Requires MotC Introduction. The coding course is not required, though information derived from coded interviews enables the full potential of the method.
Structured coding practice on MotC transcripts, in small groups that each include reliable coders. Groups code six transcripts, one a fortnight; those who want to code weekly join two groups running on staggered fortnights. Feedback from the reliable coders is collated after each transcript, and a fortnightly lunchtime Q&A webinar discusses the transcripts and the questions arising from them.
The transcripts are drawn from MotC research, so taking part also contributes to the research. They are anonymised, and booking a place carries an agreement not to circulate them beyond the group.
Open to anyone who has completed the full MotC course or Coding the Meaning of the Child Interview. Free for reliable coders, whose expertise anchors each group.
The MotC can be trained in house for voluntary agencies, local authorities and other organisations, and the course adapted to suit specific needs. Past training has included Milton Keynes children's services, TIGALA, Norfolk and Suffolk CAMHS, Murray children's services, a Birmingham CAMHS and local authority partnership, Action for Children, and NAGALRO. Training has been delivered across the UK and internationally, including Ireland and Iceland.
For in-house training, email motc@attachment.services.
