Clinical Practice.
Aims:
To ensure that trainees can identify and manage appropriately their personal involvement in and contribution to the process of psychotherapy that they practice.
From an Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy perspective:
a) Client assessment and application of behavioural modelling in the explication of a clients problem through exploration of the clients personal history
b) An opportunity for trainees to develop the capacity to recognise severely disturbed clients, and an understanding of the procedures used in psychiatric assessment.
c) Management of self and the therapeutic relationship. The purpose of this is firstly to safeguard the clients and secondly the psychotherapist from the imposition of the Practitioner’s “pathology” on the client or vice-versa. For many Trainees and Practitioners the attainment and maintenance of this reflexivity (awareness of one’s own processes) is achieved through the experience of being a client in personal psychotherapy.
d) Reviews of trainees’ clinical experiences that involve interactive and introspective emphases with the aim of promoting reflexive self-awareness.
e) Understanding the purpose of supervision and key features of its good practice.
f) Understanding roles of other professionals and agencies. The view that other advice may be needed is a fundamental assumption of training in this model of psychotherapy. This will often involve medical practitioners and those working in disciplines complementary to medicine, as well as referral to specialist psychotherapeutic modalities such as group work, family and sexual therapy and therapeutic work with children, and may be within a different modality.
g) Business management of a psychotherapy practice.
h) Training organisation-led supervision groups that include trainees, tutors, supervisors and peers being involved in ensuring safe, ethical practice of the specialist modality of NLPt.
i) Ethical issues.
This practical module covers supervised client work over a period of at least two years. In at least two cases trainees should have experience of client relationships of at least 25 sessions.
This module will include at least 20 hours of training organisation led supervision of trainee’s current clinical experience conducted in groups of four to five trainees. The supervisor will have extensive clinical practice of Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy, be an accredited psychotherapist in NLPtCA and at least two years experience of supervising therapists.
All trainees will fulfill a minimum of 8 days appropriate clinical placement during the overall period of training. Responsibility for arranging this training rests with the trainee, however, a supervisor’s report recording successful completion of the placement is a pre-requisite for certification of this module.
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Weekend One: Foundations |
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Introduction - setting the frame for the module. Developing the conversational process:- Group exercise(s) |
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Weekend Two: Supervision |
An open frame to review last weekend and experiences in between. |
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Weekend Three: Developing the process |
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An open frame to review last weekend and experiences in between. |
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Weekend Four: Integration of knowledge with practice |
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An open frame to review last weekend and experiences in between. Presentations. |
Changes may occur to this overview.
