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Our Practitioner Advanced Diploma Course
is designed for anyone interested in becoming a professional homeopath.
Our highly regarded programme instills the expertise and knowledge
to become a confident and successful homeopath.
During the course we continue to develop many of the concepts learnt
in the Foundation and Introduction into Practice Course but with
the emphasis on increasing your skills in case receiving, analysis
and prescription, to prepare you for practice. Various approaches
are given to help you unravel cases, such as group classifications
and elemental archetypes. We encourage the use of creative ideas
such as these as they often tell us as much about ourselves as they
do about the subjects being studied, and they are invaluable tools
for finding effective remedies.
Detailed casework takes place using material generated from the
extensive library of recordings at the School. Various models for
case analysis are explored, with lecturers presenting those that
they have found particularly useful in their practice. These case
studies enhance understanding enormously. They encourage the closest
scrutiny that in turn leads to an awareness of what needs to be
cured and the subsequent establishment of a relevant hierarchy of
symptoms. Use of the repertory and differential comparison of materia
medica then leads to a selection of the most appropriate remedy.
Book List Three is recommended for years 3 & 4. Alongside the
Practitioner Advanced Diploma Course you will also be required to complete
Alternative Training’s Pathology & Disease Course unless
you already have equivalent training.
Taking the case and prescribing for babies and children;
treatment of chronic cases; dosage and repetition; assessment of
response to the first prescription; the second prescription; prognosis;
prescribing for acute flare-ups during constitutional treatment;
long-term case-management; understanding symptoms with reference
to the constitution of the patient and her/his relationship to the
four temperaments; use of language, symbolism and imagery, plus
new methodologies and new provings of remedies as they arise during
casework.
You will also gain an understanding from the grouping of remedies
into categories that include:
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therapeutic indication
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remedy relationship (such as complementary or inimical)
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familial relationships (such as specific plant or animal
genus)
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the Sankaran schema
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mineral compounds group analysis
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the periodic table of elements (as taught by Jan Scholten)
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Elemental groupings – the four temperaments and
the Mappa Mundi
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Lectures on materia medica include: Chelidonium, Cicuta, Ferrum,
Lac Caninum, Natrum Carb, Zincum, and many others through the case
analysis work undertaken during the course.
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"I have thought about the School a lot.
Many times I have closed my eyes and felt very grateful for the
spacious minded and spiritual nurture and encouragement that I experienced!"
Barbara, 1998
Clinical observation and case-work under supervision is the crucial aspect of the Practitioner Advanced Diploma and your development as a homeopath. Under supervision, you take at least ten cases with follow-ups over a period of at least 18 months. During this time you work closely with your supervising practitioner.
You and your supervisor will undertake a thorough and progressive evaluation of your skills, an important part of which will be your own reflection of what is being learned from each case-taking and about your practice.
These cases, their follow-ups and ongoing prescriptions, will be assessed regularly and then again as a complete case portfolio at the end of your study. By demonstrating professional competence and appropriate academic standards you will complete the School’s Practitioner Advanced Diploma.
You have the option of doing the course by home study or attendance. Attendance is only available in the UK, home study can be done from anywhere in the world. The clinical training aspects of the home study programme alter depending on the region your studying from (see below).
Following on from the Introduction into Practice Course.
Time: 2 Years with the option of a one year extension in supervised practise.
Study: 20 School study weekends with assignments (plus one or two extra if you opt for the extra year), 20 clinic days, case-work under supervision with presentation of clinical portfolio and undertaking a proving.
Attendance Provings
During the attendance course you will embark on a homeopathic group ‘proving’ of an unknown remedy. Analysis of the experiences leads to the birth of a new remedy, because we are the living instruments through which it expresses its healing powers. The results of our endeavours are regularly published and comprise a growing library of additional information in homeopathic materia medica. Participation in provings also develops skills of perception and personal process, and deepens our understanding of homeopathic philosophy and methodology (For information about our provings, visit our website www.homeopathyschool.com).
In addition to being an extended farewell and providing the newest insights into practise, this year can also counts towards the CPD requirement for your Society of Homeopaths application. It may also be a buffer. If you, your supervisor or the School would like more time for you to complete all course requirements including medical sciences, then your study and/or supervised practie may be extended, allowing up to a full further year to catch up before diploma and registration.
Following on from the Introduction into Practice Course. UK students transfer to the attendance course (see Attendance), International students continue with home study.
Time: 2 Year (4 Year study period given).
Study: Units 15-18 with assignments, 1 Tutorial, plus direct learning, case-work under supervision with presentation of clinical portfolio.
Home study students have a minimum of 1 tutorial per year, but are invited to do more.
All students attend a minimum of 100 hours clinical observation through direct learning. Clinics keep you in touch with the newest case analysis techniques and up-to-date practise information. Teachers facilitate students as they progress towards autonomy and confidence in practise.
North American students attend one regional seminar and workshop, held in either America or Canada. Over the duration of all the full programme North American students attend a minimum of 3 seminars and 2 workshops so you have the required clinical hours for registration with the Council of Homeopathic Certification CHC. Australian students attend 40 hours of 'Australian Register of Homeopaths (AROH) approved' face-to-face clinical sessions in Australia. Over the duration of the full programme Australian students attend 120 hours of direct learning for registration with AROH or Australian Traditional Medicine Society ATMS. Students fromEurope or the Rest of the World attend a 7 Day Summer School in May/June at the School of Homeopathy in the UK. Over the duration of the full programme, students from Europe or the Rest of the World attend a minimum of two 7 Day Summer Schools ensuring the required 100 clinical hours of direct learning. To read more about the School’s face-to-face activities go the the events area.
All home study students are welcome to join attendance course School weekend sessions by prior arrangement.
Clinical supervision through home study is completed in one and a half years. There are two options: 1. You find a local homeopath for direct clinical contact and supervision. 2. You use one of the supervisors from our network. Should he/she be distant from you, then you may consider e-mail and telephone communication.
You can read about courses in full in the dedicated regional sections of the website:
UK
America
Canada
Australia
Europe
Japan
Rest of the world
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