Theme 5: Self-awareness and reflection
| A. Qualified counsellor, advanced qualified counsellor and psychotherapist | B. Advanced qualified counsellor | C. Psychotherapist |
| 5.1. Ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal development that includes self-awareness in relation to the client or patient to enhance therapeutic practice | 5.1.a. Ability to evidence adequate emotional preparation for intense and complex work, which will require reflexivity and potential taxing of counsellor or psychotherapist resources 5.1.b. Ability to work with unconscious processes |
5.1.c. Ability to evidence reflexivity, self-awareness and the therapeutic use of self to work at depth in the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic process |
| 5.2. Ability to demonstrate skills to reflect on aspects of own culture that have most influenced ‘self’ and understand the relevance of this when working with others | ||
| 5.3. Ability to understand the significance and impact of own values, beliefs and attitudes in work with clients or patients | 5.3.a. Ability to critically challenge own values and beliefs | |
| 5.4. Ability to monitor and evaluate fitness to practise, and maintain personal, psychological and physical health | ||
| 5.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of supervision, with the ability to contract for supervision and use it to address professional and developmental needs | 5.5.a. Ability to review and evaluate supervision arrangements and take responsibility for adapting supervision to the evolving and changing requirements of ongoing practice | |
| 5.6. Ability to evaluate learning from supervision and apply to ongoing practice |