This competency must be satisfied in order for credit to be released

Health Practice

A 20 minute skills video recording at the agreed level of competence &#61;PCEPS level 4; transcribed verbatim, accompanied by a written skills self assessment (including feedback from peers and skills tutor).

• Advanced counselling skills from a person-centred-experiential perspective.
• Timing of therapeutic interventions. 
• Communication and meta (meta-therapeutic communication)
• The six necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic change.
• Interpersonal Process Recall IPR skills and Person-Centred Experiential Psychotherapy Scale (PCEPs)
• The counselling process, to include beginnings, middles, and endings.
• Culturally competent, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, anti-ableist counselling practice, taking into account intersectional identity &amp; Memorandum of Understanding.
• Reflective Practice, including the appropriate use of self in the counselling process.
• Supervision requirements and making use of Supervision.
• Risk assessment and confidentiality (including GDPR and data protection).
• Negotiating therapeutic contracts.
• Online and Phone Counselling Competencies (knowledge and practice).
• Grounding yourself before and after therapeutic work.

Person-Centred and Experiential Counselling Competency - 7024COCPSY

Person-Centred and Experiential Counselling Competency

Make and sustain psychological contact in the relational encounter.

Demonstrate Person-Centred Experiential Counselling Competency at a minimum of level 4 on the Person-Centred Experiential Psychotherapy Scale (PCEPS).

Critically reflect on their own capabilities and areas for improvement in relation to the therapist conditions of Empathy, Congruence and Unconditional Positive Regard, drawing on the PCEP's feedback from skills tutor and peers.

Explore and critically evaluate their own capacity to form and maintain anti-oppressive, ethical therapeutic relationships.

Reflect at depth on how their personal material impacts on developing a person-centred-experiential counselling relationship.