Unit D3: Provide therapy

Establish and evaluate contact with clients

Performance Criteria

• The client is assisted to identify requirements
• The client is enabled to determine the use of services available.
• The client is helped to identify initial concerns and issues
• The service to be provided is agreed with the client
• The boundaries of the professional relationship are agreed with the client
• The method and contract of working is agreed with the client
• A safe and appropriate setting is provided
  

Process:
Self-referral, referred by a member of a provider organisation

• Confidentiality policy and protocols
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Good Practice policies
• Health and Safety Legislation, policy and procedures
• Inter-personal dynamics
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Philosophies and styles of counselling
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Risk policies
• Self-awareness
• Team working/referral
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to contact with clients

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Provide therapy

Performance Criteria:

• The client is assisted to identify issues, concerns and anxieties
• The client is assisted to assess and agree his/her current state of development.
• Interaction is developed with the client
• The client is enabled to decide upon a course of action
• Interaction is brought to an end
• The client is assisted to monitor his/her review of progress
• The client is assisted to evaluated overall progress
• A safe and appropriate setting is provided
• Therapy sessions are regularly and effectively reviewed
• Personal and professional boundaries are respected and maintained
  
  

• Confidentiality policy and protocols
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Good Practice policies
• Health and Safety Legislation, policy and procedures
• Inter-personal dynamics
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Philosophies and styles of counselling
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Risk policies
• Self-awareness
• Team working/referral
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to providing therapy

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Evaluate therapy within supervision

Performance Criteria:

• Therapeutic boundaries are monitored
• Practice is evaluated
• Mutual overview of the therapeutic relationship is evaluated
• Therapist's internal world and that of the client are differentiated
• Theoretical orientation and its implication for the therapeutic process are identified
• Continuing self support and supervision is ensured
• Personal and professional boundaries are safeguarded
  

Clients:
Staff members, Other clients

• Confidentiality policy and protocols
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Good Practice policies
• Health and Safety Legislation, policy and procedures
• Inter-personal dynamics
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Philosophies and styles of counselling
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Risk policies
• Self-awareness
• Team working/referral
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to evaluating therapy
  

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Operate an agreed action, referral and completion policy

Performance Criteria:

• Contribution to other agencies to be evaluated
• Personal and professional networks to be maintained and developed
• Referrals to be made as appropriate
• Information required to intervene on behalf of the client to be gathered
• Strategy for intervention to be identified
• Effect on the client to be monitored
• Therapeutic process to be brought to an end
• Referring agency to be advised if appropriate
  

Process:
Evaluation of the therapy process

Clients:
Staff members, Other clients

• Confidentiality policy and protocols
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Good Practice policies
• Health and Safety Legislation, policy and procedures
• Inter-personal dynamics
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Philosophies and styles of counselling
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Risk policies
• Self-awareness
• Team working/referral
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to action, referral and completion policy

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