CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Policy for Counselling and Psychotherapy Graduate Members
Introduction
Our primary purpose in this policy document is to find a balance between formal regulations and our own soul journey, so that we concern ourselves with nourishment rather than policing. We recognise that counsellors and psychotherapists can never 'know' fully about their clients and that the capacity for enquiry and openness to learning are essential qualities of a successful counselling or psychotherapy graduate. This policy includes both graduates' self-responsibility for their learning and the professional context that requires transparency to the organisation, Re•Vision, as an accrediting body. It aims for maintenance of high professional standards and a flexibility to account for an individual's own assessment of and management of the needs for professional development.
This policy sets out a procedure that affirms this attitude and asks each of us to be explicit about the way we provide for our on-going professional development. This serves a number of purposes:
- It helps us think creatively about our own careers and encourages us to value the development of our work
- It creates a climate of opinion in which the exchange of learning and stimulation is the norm, not simply confined to the period of our initial training
- It provides Re•Vision with the information regularly needed to confirm UKCP registration, and to re-validate the BACP accreditation.