Making the Most of Counselling & Psychotherapy Placements

Michelle Oldale, Michelle J. Cooke, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781446208465, 9781446208458
• eBook ISBN: 9781473927896
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy Counselling
• Index: Psychology

Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you?

 

Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement?

 

Then you have come to the right place! Packed full of hints and tips, advice, checklists and points for reflection, this practical guide will provide you with those all important answers, and more.

 

Key content includes:

 

- History and background of the placement

- How to get the most out of the placement

- Wider professional and ethical considerations

- The placement search, completing the application and tips for the interview

- Managing placement relationships

- Planning for the Future

 

This one stop shop will provide counselling and psychotherapy trainees with everything they need to know to secure and survive their practice placement.

Index

• ABCDE model, 59, 61, 66
• academic work required from prospective therapists, 53, 70, 139
• accreditation, 41, 52–53, 67, 69, 154, 160
• acknowledgement of feedback, 65
• advertising of counselling and psychotherapy services, 156–157
• anxiety
  • from awareness of incompetence, 137
  • in response to assessment, 58–59, 62, 64
• application forms, 92–93
• applying for a placement, 89–98
  • deciding where to apply, 89–92
  • process of, 92–93
  • speculative approaches, 98
  • writing a personal statement, 93–97
• appreciative inquiry, 144–146, 162
• appreciative questions, 146–149
• aptitude as a therapist, components of, 41–42
• Asay, T.P., 33, 39
• assessment
  • of clients, 120, 126, 132
  • of therapists, 58–62, 114, 161–162
• assumptions about clients, 128–130
• asylums, 9
• audio-recording of sessions with clients, 133, 139, 162

• Bager-Charleson, S., 26–27
• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), 132
• behaviourism, 12
• Bond, T., 11
• Branch, R., 106
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), 7, 17, 41, 45, 52, 67–68, 78, 88, 133, 151, 154, 158, 161
  • principles upheld by, 29, 138
• British Psychological Society (BPS), 67
• buildings worked in by therapists, 123–124, 157
• business cards, 89

• candidate group interviews, 99
• Casement, P., 160
• Certificate of Proficiency (BACP), 67
• client caseloads, 138–139
• client involvement in feedback, 64
• client non-attendance, 69
• Clinical Outcomes Routine Evaluation (CORE), 132
• cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), 12
• competence, 30–31, 24–25, 40, 52–53, 58, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Sidebar List
• Illustration List
• Table List
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• One Defining Placement: Historical Background and Context
• Two Preparing for Placement: Personal, Theoretical and Ethical Considerations
• Three Before You Start: Training Provider and Wider Professional Considerations
• Four The Placement Search, Application and Interview Process
• Five Commencing Placement: Managing Practicalities, Processes and Relationships
• Six Placements in Perspective
• Index