The Competence Framework presented here suggests that the three elements of Practitioner, Client and Context are essential factors for making good therapeutic choices. The eight principles that elaborate on these elements provide a route to explore competence that is relevant for any theoretical orientation and appropriate for practitioners at any stage. The reader is encouraged to make their own exploration of a number of factors that influence competence and to identify development of the self as both a necessary preparation for therapeutic work and as a continuing outcome of being a therapist.
Key Features
- Explores essential elements for therapeutic choices: Practitioner, Client, and Context.
- Offers eight principles relevant for any theoretical orientation.
- Encourages personal exploration of factors influencing competence.
- Highlights the importance of ethical frameworks and professional structures.
- Examines the contribution of supervision to competence development.
Additional Information
In addition, Hughes emphasises the importance of having a sound ethical framework and utilising professional structures as well as examining the contribution of supervision to the development and maintenance of competence.
This book is an ideal choice for counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors and trainers who wish to maintain a robust standard of practice, and for those employing them.
