Continuing Professional Development

Workshops and Seminars

The NCHP takes the view that learning is an ongoing experience. Even when fully trained, therapists still need the opportunity to keep up‑to‑date with specialist approaches and developments in the profession.

 

To this end, the NCHP provides a regular programme of one and two day workshops and seminars on a variety of subjects and, where appropriate, distance learning courses. The workshops are run by specialist tutors, including internationally known psychologist Dr Keith Hearne and visiting American Ericksonian psycho-therapist, Dr Eric Greenleaf. All current students and members of the NRHP are notified of forthcoming training events.

 

Examples of past training events are:

·   Dealing with Pain Control

·   Disorders of Sleep and Dreams

·   Eating Disorders

·   Ego State Short Term Therapy

·   The Unconscious Mind (Ericksonian therapy)

·   Gut Directed Therapy (for Irritable Bowel

Syndrome, etc.)

 

Distance learning courses in Ethics, Human Development & Sexuality, Psychopathology, Research for Therapists in Practice and, recently, Certificate and Diploma courses in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Neuro‑Linguistic Programming Psychotherapy and Ego State Therapy are offered.

 

An Interactive Counselling Skills and Communication weekend is offered on a regular basis at all venues, as part of the supplementary training required by UKCP for registration on their National Register of Psychotherapists. The weekend is also a very productive way of fulfilling CPD requirements and improving counselling skills.

 

Ongoing supervision

Supervision is considered to be an essential part of an ethically minded psychotherapist's practice. All practising members of NRHP are required to be in, either, supervision (for Student, Affiliate or Associate members) or peer supervision (for Full members) as part of their CPD requirement. On a practical level, this means getting together with your supervisor for a minimum of two hours per month (or on a pro‑rata basis for Students) to discuss, in a confidential manner, your current case load and treatment schedules, and talk over any problems you may be encountering. Documentary evidence of all supervision sessions will be kept in your CPD Portfolio. The NRHP has a policy of random monitoring of supervision, as well as the five-yearly review of CPD Portfolios.

 

The therapeutic alliance is, perhaps, the most important aspect of any therapy, but it is all too easy for a therapist to be so involved in the therapeutic relationship that he or she cannot see it from a clear perspective. That is where supervision comes into its own, helping therapists to reflect constructively on their working relationships with clients. Details of supervision requirements are available to those applying to join the NRHP.

 

Advanced Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy

The Advanced Diploma (ADHP [NC]) is awarded to NCHP graduates who have fulfilled the requirements for recommendation to membership of the UKCP's National Register of Psycho-therapists, plus successful completion of our Ericksonian Hypno‑Psychotherapy and/or NLP Psychotherapy Diploma.

 

 

 

Higher Degrees from British Universities

 

Most British universities have systems whereby students who do not have a first degree are offered access to Masters degree courses on the basis of recognised, non‑degree, qualifications and professional experience. NCHP training is recognised by the UK Council for Psychotherapy as a post‑graduate level of training and, as such, provides our graduates with a good basis on which to approach universities, with a view to studying at Masters level, or above. The NCHP and NRHP are happy to assist such individual initiatives by providing graduates with academic and professional references. Above all, our external accreditation is via process and personnel similar to that applied to the universities themselves.

 

Students and graduates of the NCHP may be interested in pursuing further study with the Open University. (See p19 for details of OU‑specific credit rating of all three stages of our training and refer to the OU's website: www. open. ac. uk/credit‑transfer.)

 

Even if applicants have no intention of undertaking an OU course in the immediate future, credits will be useful if circumstances change. Also, to be credit‑rated by so prestigious an institution adds to the credibility of our, hence your, training.

 

 

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

The UKCP is a registered charity which acts as the major regulatory body for psychotherapy training and registering organisations throughout the UK. UKCP recognition is becoming increasingly important for psychotherapists, whether they intend to follow a career in the public or private sectors or some combination of the two. Both the NCHP and the NRHP are members of the Hypno‑Psychotherapy Section of UKCP. We are able to offer our graduates the opportunity to apply for registration with the UKCP, via the NCHP, subject to fulfilling their requirements.

 

Amongst the training requirements specified by UKCP are the acquisition of a critical understanding of the relevance of studies in human development, psychopathology, sexuality, ethics, research and social science. Consistent with any reputable psychotherapy training, NCHP has included such elements within its training even before the creation of UKCP. Psychotherapy is, itself, one of the social sciences. The study of human relationships is, of course, central to what we do in much of our training. Of necessity, therefore, human development and sexuality are addressed throughout training as well as through a discrete package as mentioned below. Similarly, the topic of ethics is addressed on numerous occasions, either within the course proper (e.g., practice ethics, addressed as early as weekend four of Stage One), or through supplementary elements (e.g., ethics, the ethics of research ‑ see below, the therapeutic relationship via interactive counselling skills, also below, ethics governing submission of dissertations via the Joint Committee on Ethical Research, see p12, and the Code of Ethics and Practice, p22‑23, by which we are all bound).

 

Where we consider that our central training might usefully be supplemented, as for example in Research or Psychopathology, separate provision is made (see below).

 

UKCP Registration Requirements

·       Post‑graduate level of competence at outset of training

If you intend to apply for UKCP registration, you should ensure you have evidence that you are of a post‑graduate level of competence at the start of your training with the NCHP. (We, particularly, do not wish to discourage applications from non-graduates ‑ you are urged to apply, with supporting documentation such as a letter of acceptance onto an external postgraduate course or a letter from a suitably qualified person vouching for your meeting a post‑graduate level of competence.)

·       Diploma in Hypno‑Psychotherapy from NCHP

·       Full, practising membership of the NRHP

·       Supplementary training elements completed or exemptions granted (please see below)

·       Evidence of 18 months' supervised practice with a UKCP registered therapist

·       Evidence of 12 sessions of self‑therapy with successful outcome

       (NB: Supervision is a discrete element. Neither self‑therapy nor "pastoral care" should substitute for same.)

·       Submission of two, fully documented, anonymous case studies, via your supervisor

·       Four years having elapsed since commencement of NCHP training

·       With effect from 1st January 2008, new applicants will also have to submit proof of having undertaken a minimum of 300 hours of clinical practice, prior to application, via a declaration from their supervisor.  These hours with clients/patients may be within a mental or social health setting or equivalent and with individual clients/patients, families or groups.