An ex-Kids Company worker found a Master’s course in psychoanalytic observation has taken her understanding of behaviour to another level. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Caring for damaged children is challenging. But in her former job as a youth worker for now-closed charity Kids Company, Sarina Campbell (pictured) found a Master’s course, ‘Working with children, young people and families: a psychoanalytic observational approach’, helped her react positively to children’s raw and painful emotions.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust offers the part-time, three-year course at several locations in the UK and Italy. Applicants need a degree, or to have completed an access course, and at least a year’s experience of working with children or families full-time, and be currently working with them at least one day a week.

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