Lifetide Training

 

Ethics

The following has been produced by NLPtCA and forms a basis of the work of the Lifetide Training.

The code relating to Equality of Opportunity can be found here.


CODE OF PRACTICE FOR TRAINERS & TRAINEES


1.1 Trainers will be open with intending trainees regarding potential suitability for training and make clear what  selection procedures are involved. 1.2 Trainers have a responsibility to confirm with trainees what therapeutic or helping relationships are in           existence before the course begins, and enable trainees to consider their own possible needs for personal therapy outside the course, and what contribution it might make to their work during the training programme.

1. MANAGEMENT OF TRAINING

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1.3         Trainers will ensure that practical experience of Neurolinguistic psychotherapy or counselling practice under regular supervision is part of psychotherapy or counselling training.

1.4         Trainers will arrange for initial, continuous and final assessments of trainees' work and their continuing fitness for the course. Trainers will make trainees aware of this process.

1.5         Trainer will ensure that trainees are given the opportunity to discuss their experience of the course in groups, individually, or both.

1.6         Trainers will encourage self-assessment and peer assessment amongst their trainees.

1.7         Trainers will ensure that their trainees are made aware of the distinctions between psychotherapy, counselling, managerial and consultancy tasks and roles in training and supervision.

1.8         Trainers who become aware of a conflict between their obligation to a trainee and their obligation to an agency or organisation employing them will make explicit to the trainee the nature of the loyalties involved.

1.9         Where personal differences cannot be resolved, trainers will consult with, and where appropriate, refer to another colleague.

1.10         Trainers will take account of the limitations of their competence and make appropriate arrangements where necessary.

1.11 Lecturers or trainers will not enter into any relationship with a trainee such as to bring the profession of psychotherapy into disrepute.


2. CONFIDENTIALITY

2.1         Confidentiality will be maintained with regard to information of a personal or sexual nature obtained by trainers or trainees.

2.2         Trainers may not reveal confidential information concerning trainees to any other person or through any other public medium except to those to whom trainers owe accountability for training work (in the case of those working within an agency or organisational setting) or on whom trainers rely for support and supervision.


2.3         All trainees, trainers and supervisors are required to observe complete confidentiality, except for supervision purposes, where the client's anonymity will at all times be preserved. Limits of confidentiality will be preserved when there is a danger to a third party, or where there is a need to provide a place of safety for the client, in which case reference will be made to a Psychiatrist, GP or Mental Health Team with the client's full knowledge and consent.

2.4         Confidentiality does not preclude the disclosure of confidential information relating to trainees when relevant to the following:

Evaluation of the trainee by trainers or training committee.

Recommendations concerning trainees for professional purposes.

Pursuit of disciplinary action involving trainees in matters pertaining to ethical standards.


 


3. SELECTION PROCEDURES

3.1         Information about specific trainees may only be used for publication in appropriate journals or meetings with the trainee's permission and with anonymity preserved when the trainee so specifies.

3.2         If any data is to be used for research purposes, permission will be sought and clear information about the exact nature of the research given, in order to obtain informed consent (or refusal).

3.3         Discussion by trainers of their trainees will be purposeful and not trivialising.

3.4         Management of the Therapeutic Relationship in the Context of Training.

3.5         All trainers and trainees are required to disclose their qualifications when requested and not claim or imply qualifications they do not have.

3.6         All trainers and trainees will make available on request their terms and conditions and methods of practice at the outset of therapy.

3.7         All trainers and trainees are required to maintain appropriate boundaries, and not exploit any client's current or past in any way: emotionally, sexually or financially.

3.8         All psychotherapists, qualified or in training, are required to maintain their ability to practise competently, continuing their professional development and updating it. This includes regular supervision and, where appropriate, therapy.

3.9         All trainers and trainees are required to take out indemnity insurance under the appropriate category.

3.10         All trainers and trainees are required to refrain from detrimental behaviour such as might bring the profession of psychotherapy into disrepute. Colleagues are also requested and required to confront colleagues who are behaving in such a way as to bring the profession into disrepute, and to report them to NLPtCA Complaints Officer.

3.11         Lecturers, trainers or supervisors will not enter into any psychotherapeutic relationship with any trainee outside the training context.

3.12         Lecturers, trainers of supervisors will not enter into any sexual relationship with any trainee for a period of two years after the end of the training.


4. TRAINEE'S CONDUCT
4.1 The training organisation reserves the right to terminate a trainee's participation in a module if their behaviour severely interferes with the learning of other trainees.

5. STUDENT CONSULTATION
5.1 Student consultation takes place regularly and at many levels e.g.
at individual tutorials
in course group discussions of programmes and programme developments
in various kinds of regular group work
questionnaires to students on the courses, their presentation and appropriateness.


EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Equal opportunities means that no individual should be discriminated against in access to services or training by reason of their race, age, religion, gender, culture, class, sexual orientation or disability.
1.2 In psychotherapy equal opportunities applies:
to an individual's access to the provision of psychotherapy services.
to an individual's access to courses of training, particularly those leading to qualifications which entitle the individual to Registration with UKCP.
to an individual's access to all opportunities that are offered by the Martin Weaver Health Consultancy.

2. CODES OF ETHICS
The Martin Weaver Health Consultancy is required by its own commitment as we as NLPtCA and as such the UKCP to have a Code of Ethics and Practice consistent with the principles they set out.

3. INTERCULTURAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
3.1 The United Kingdom is a multicultural society with many differences of race, class and religion as well as the fundamental differences of age, gender, sexual orientation and abilities, leading to a rich and complex diversity of culture.
3.2 Psychotherapists should be committed to working towards an understanding of the meaning of cultural diversity and they should strive to acknowledge the impact of different cultural experiences on themselves, their clients and their work.
3.3 A crucial element of difference is the extent to which it adversely effects access to services and life chances. Many minority groups experience prejudice and discrimination on the basis of their religion, ethnic origin, disability, etc.
3.4 Explicit discrimination is now unlawful but more subtle forms of prejudice continue to affect many groups and overt hostility is often experienced by minorities.
3.5 Psychotherapists must aim to acknowledge, in their practice, the reality of difference and of discrimination and prejudice in society as a whole and within the profession .
3.6 Without the understanding of intercultural issues equal opportunities policies become empty and meaningless. Without a vigorous commitment to equal opportunities intercultural psychotherapy remains an unfulfilled promise.

4. LIFETIDE TRAINING HAS:
4.1 committed itself to the principle of equal opportunities for all.
4.2 undertakes to be an equal opportunities employer.
4.3undertakes to have regard to equal opportunities in all areas of its work including the training programmes.
4.4 sought to welcome students and similar organisations that cater specifically for the needs of minority groups.
4.5 plans to establish a student Committee to provide a focus for discussion of all matters relating to Intercultural

PSYCHOTHERAPY & EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
5. LIFETIDE TRAINING ENCOURAGES ITS STUDENTS & REGISTERED MEMBERS TO MAKE ACTIVE USE OF THE UKCP INTERCULTURAL & EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMITTEE WHICH HAS:
5.1 developed selected bibliographies with notes on work relating to race and culture, class, gender, age, sexual orientation and disability to be made available to member organisations, individual registrants, and members of the public.
5.2 piloted equal opportunities monitoring of access to training programmes with a view to Council adopting centralised monitoring through Sections and member organisations.
5.3 The UKCP Committee aims to: o survey the membership for examples of good practice and work towards the provision of training packs for members; o establish guidelines for practice.
5.4 The Committee provides advice and support to member organisations on equal opportunities practice.

6. LIFETIDE TRAINING INTENDS TO:
6.1 Implement and publicise the Equal Opportunities policy in terms of access to services, trainings and employment practices.
6.2 Ensure that training includes intercultural awareness and studies.
6.3 Critically examine the overall curricula in the context of current intercultural and equal opportunities thinking.
6.4 Monitor access to services, trainings and facilities The aim of this statement is to clarify the position of Martin Weaver Health Consultancy in regard to Equal Opportunities and provide a guide for its students and registrants to help in the implementation of an Equal Opportunities policy and the development of ethical and sensitive intercultural practice.

This policy was developed from information devised by the Intercultural and Equal Opportunities Committee of UKCP and endorsed by the UKCP AGM in January 1999.

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