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Welcome to BACP's second series of Professional Development Days.
Between September 2012 and March 2013 we paln to hold a second series of Professional Development Days. The days have been designed to deliver valuable CPD opportunities with clearly defined learning outcomes that will develop practitioner skills in the specified areas. Our aim is for the days to be interactive and for every delegate to get maximum individual benefit from attending. To achieve this, expert tutors have been selected to deliver each day and numbers at each event are limited to a maximum of 25.
We currently have 12 potential titles and details of these includeing a short precis are listed below.
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Legal
Legal Issues in therapeutic work with children and young people
The workshop's aim is to develop participants' understanding and confidence in acknowledging and working with different models of children's rights relating to law and counselling practice. The workshop includes group exercises, brief formal presentations, case studies and brief video clips to illustrate key points. The style is informal and interactive, with opportunities to ask questions and clarify issues.
Counselling confidentiality, data protection and access to records
The workshop's aim is to develop participants' understanding and confidence, in acknowledging and working with key issues relating to handling sensitive client information in the context of everyday counselling practice. The workshop includes group exercises, brief formal presentations, case studies and brief video clips to illustrate key points. The style is informal and interactive, with opportunities to ask questions and clarify issues. The workshop content is based on extensive experience of responding to counsellors' and service managers' concerns on this issue over the past two decades, and is directly informed by the presenter's own research and publications on this topic, undertaken since the introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Business Development
Future proofing counselling: the role we all have to play
Whether in private practice or in an organisational setting, most counsellors are concerned about reduced funding and resources that impact upon the therapeutic work they wish to undertake with their clients. This one day workshop aims to help attendees explore four core blocks to future proofing a counselling service and ways to overcome these. The day will be highly interactive and experiential, practitioners will be encouraged to share their own skills, knowledge and experience.
How to ethically set up, market and develop a successful private practice
This day will consider the nine key considerations when setting up a private practice, practical steps to ethically market your practice and how to develop a stream of paying clients as your practice matures.
An Introduction to coaching skills for therapists and counsellors
This day will provide participants with a framework and models to start using a 'coach approach' in their current work and interactions. It will include:
Clarifying the coaching context - What coaching is and is not, how it fits with other approaches.
Intentional Communication - Listening to, listening with and listening for in a coaching context, effective questioning for awareness, ownership and action
Coaching Models - Coaching perspectives, the FORGOALS coaching model
How to market a therapeutic coaching service to clients
This day will consider how coaching and counselling services can be marketed, why clients select a coaching approach and what they like to buy, the boundaries and ethical considerations that are key to developing a successful practice and five business models for a therapeutic coaching service.
Practice
Coaching the baby boomer generation
This workshop will explore the issues facing the 21 million plus baby boomer generation and how to work most effectively with them. Participants will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the issues that face this age group in personal life and work, explore whether age really no longer defines what we can or can't do and how does our age impact on our choices. In this context we will look at how coaching can help individuals move into the next period of their lives positively and well equipped. Participants will also have the opportunity to consider their own thoughts and feelings about their ageing and how this impacts on their practice.
Looking after yourself as a therapist
In a novel by Salley Vickers (The Other Side of You), the client asks her therapist why he does therapy: "Is it love or is it damage?" This interactive workshop explores her question and asks: What are we doing? Whose needs are we meeting? What are the dangers for us? How can we look after ourselves? Activities will include experiential work in small groups, discussion and tutor input, using material supplied by delegates and the tutor (as appropriate). We will share strategies for self care, for personal safety and for managing the challenges of working in various settings.
Supervision skills, dilemmas and challenges (for practising supervisors, both beginners and experienced)
Thinking of updating your skills as a supervisor? Want a stimulating and safe space to explore and discuss some dilemmas and challenges? This one day interactive course will examine the multiple tasks of supervision: safeguarding the interests of the client, supporting and challenging supervisees, thinking about the impact of different settings, and monitoring ethical standards. Activities will include experiential work in small groups, discussion and tutor input, and there will an opportunity to practise skills as supervisor and supervisee using case material supplied by delegates and the tutor (as appropriate).
Understanding and recognising Sex Addiction
Sex addiction is a growing concern with more and more therapists receiving enquiries from concerned ‘addicts' and partners. Ultimately only the ‘addict' can decide if their behaviour is compulsive and out of control but this intense and information packed day, will help therapists to guide their client in making that decision. The day includes a comprehensive explanation of the most up to date theories of sex and porn addiction, including signs and symptoms and common predispositions. It will give therapists the confidence to recognise clients with an active and current sexual addiction as well as those who are ‘at risk' and provide the tools to guide clients to appropriate sources of treatment.
Good practice: Working with spirituality and religion in counselling and psychotherapy
In this workshop we will explore best practice when working with spirituality and religion in counselling and psychotherapy. We will use a mixture of input from the workshop presenters, skills practice and group discussions to enable participants to develop their understanding and competence working with spirituality and religion. In addition there will be time to reflect on issues arising from participants own clinical practice.
Research
Training trainers of counsellors and psychotherapists in research skills
Training in counselling and psychotherapy has not always included a substantial syllabus in research methods or research skills. In recent years, the demand for evidence-based practice, service evaluation and the political imperative to collect practice-based evidence has grown. For these reasons, the general shape of counselling and psychotherapy curricula is changing. This day will aim to help equip therapy trainers to feel more confident and competent at teaching research methods and research skills.