Psychological Therapies in Primary Care

by Hooper, Douglas; Weitz, Phillipa

• ISBN13: 9781855754911
• ISBN10: 1855754916
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

The term 'primary care counseling' denotes the context of primary care within which psychological therapies take place and encompasses practitioners from a wide variety of therapeutic traditions. The emphasis throughout Training and Training Standards is on thorough preparation of the new counselor/therapist to meet the counseling standards required in primary care practice. The surge of interest in psychotherapies in private practice settings makes this book timely and important. The book acts as a suggested syllabus for training counselors and psychotherapists but also deals with much wider issues. Chapters cover practitioner issues--both student and professional--management issues, and the provision of supervision and mentoring for the new counselor as well as planning ongoing professional development. Chapters dealing with the history of the remarkable rise in these services help set the context of the rapid development of primary care counseling. Training and Training Standards will be of value to students, course providers, counseling practice managers, supervisors as well as those who commission services and private practice doctors.

Table of Contents

Contributors

An A-Z of Organisations and Their Acronyms

Preface

Representing the Patients' Interests

Introduction

The Field: History, Need and Provision

The History of Primary Care Counselling

Why Go to All This Trouble?

The Link Between Training and Good Practice and the Implementation of Training Standards: What Does This Mean for Employers?

Training Programmes-Institutional and Placement

Fitness to be Trained: The Selection of Trainees and Course Context: A Trainer's View

What is Appropriate Training? An External Examiner's View of Training

Training Counsellors to Work in Primary Care

Training for Competency: Finding the Right Course for Working in Primary Care

Towards Regulation

Training Standards for Supervision in Primary Care

Placements and Mentoring for Primary Care Counselling in Today's NHS

Continuing Professional Development: Fit For Practice

The Role Sets and Relationships Between Roles in Counselling in Primary Care

Fitness to Practise: Selection for Primary Care: Choosing and Supporting the Competent Practitioners: A Service Manager's View

Professional Liability Insurance: Protection for the Public, Protection for the Therapist

Opportunity or Threat? What is Happening to Psychological Therapies in the NHS? A View of Primary Care as New Relationships Emerge

Summary: What Now?

Appendices

Counseling and Psychotherapy for Primary Care Forum Membership

Minimum Training Standards for Primary Care Counsellors

Person Specification Criteria for Primary Care Counsellors

The 1995 Course Proposal

Useful Website Addresses

National Profiles for Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Counsellors

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