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Ethical practice for helping professions
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Fairness, equality and diversity
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Building an appropriate relationship with clients
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Safeguarding and managing risk of harm
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Confidentiality, contracting, remit and supervision
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Professional bodies, insurance, personal development
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This course assumes you are a helping professional such as a counsellor, psychotherapist, coach or teacher
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No prior knowledge of professional ethics is required
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Counsellors and psychotherapists
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Coaches
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Mindfulness, meditation and yoga teachers
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Other professional practitioners
Are you a helping professional, such as a counsellor, psychotherapist, coach or teacher (mindfulness, meditation, yoga, etc)? If so, there are a set of core skills you need to keep yourself and your clients safe. This course will teach you everything you need to know about best practices and working within ethical guidelines.
We’ll cover:
Fairness, equality & diversity, exploring the barriers clients may encounter in using our services
Building an appropriate relationship with clients and handling conflicts of interest
Safeguarding: what do we do if a client talks about suicide, self-harm, or harming others?
Confidentiality, when to keep it and when to break it
Data protection and keeping clients’ information secure
Contracting and maintaining professional boundaries
Core skills such as organisation, time management, communication and assertiveness
Working within our remit and signposting clients to additional support
Supervision and joining professional bodies
Suitable insurance for helping professionals
Personal development and practitioner self-care
We will explore each of these areas in a series of lessons backed up by reading material, case studies and exercises. The course features dozens of downloadable worksheets and examples so you can learn from real-world situations and apply the learning to your situation.
By the end of this course, you will be able to work with confidence, knowing that you can handle difficult situations with clients and work within ethical guidelines to protect yourself and your clients.
Welcome
Welcome
Course goals and outline
Course goals and outline
How to use this course
How to use this course
Course handbook
Course handbook
Meet your instructor
Meet your instructor
Student community
Student community
Diversity
Diversity
Common barriers
Common barriers
Discrimination
Discrimination
Case study: women-only classes
Case study: women-only classes
Case study: access to buildings
Case study: access to buildings
Being accessible
Being accessible
Respecting difference
Respecting difference
Power imbalance
Power imbalance
Test your knowledge
Test your knowledge
Working alliance
Working alliance
Building safety
Building safety
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Chris Worfolk
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Holbeck College
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