UKCP’s Diversity Equalities and Social Responsibility Committee (DESRC) has set up a workgroup to look into start up support groups for psychotherapists from minority communities. We are initially looking at:
Support groups for black and asian therapists and support groups for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender therapists:
Due to additional funding recently secured, NICAS have two exciting opportunities for Social Workers to work as part of our award-winning Substance Misuse Service for Older People. This service is delivered primarily in the clients’ own home and provides counselling and support to older people and their families affected by substance misuse.
2x Counsellors/Social Workers
(23 hours a week) Ref: 04/10
Quality Training UK have still some places available on the Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People running in September in Belfast.
The course is designed to encourage participants who have successfully undertaken a Diploma in Counselling, (minimum of 450 hours of training) and can show evidence of working in a professional capacity in the community, particularly with children or adolescents, to continue their professional and personal development in the field of counselling.
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has published the ‘Strategy for the development of psychological therapy services’. The strategy has the overarching aim of improving the health and social wellbeing of the population of the Northern Ireland by improving access to psychological therapies and by being more responsive to service user’s needs.
Due to popular demand, Nexus have added an additional date to their list of introductory workshops focusing on working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The workshop will be held on Friday 3rd September 2010 at 10am.
BACP is running a workshop in Belfast on 26th October 2010 that will cover practical issues about law as it relates to therapy practice and some of the major issues in managing ethical practice within the law. The sessions in the workshop address issues relevant to work in a wide variety of settings including:
The INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE THERAPY is now accepting applications for the Certificate and Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy held in Belfast at WEEKENDS.
The Certificate in CBT has consistently been ranked as “excellent” by nearly three hundred students who completed the course during the past four years. The training events will be presented by Sylvia Buet and Paul Quinn. Sylvia is a Psychologist accredited by the BABCP as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and BABCP accredited Trainer in CBT. Sylvia is also the Director of the International Institute for Cognitive Therapy.
Gender variance is a term that refers to those expressions of gender (masculinity and femininity) that do not conform to the dominant gender norms of Western culture. It is a term used in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and gender studies, as well as advocacy groups of gender variant people themselves. It is deliberately broad, encompassing such specific terms as transsexual, transgender, transvestite, third gender, gender-queer, intersex, etc.
Solution-focused therapy is a brief therapeutic modality that focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem(s) that made them to seek help.
Below you will find 8 solution-focused therapy resources that might be useful for those who work using this approach.
Caitriona Nic Ghiollaphadraig will be holding a 5 Rhythms Weekend Workshop in Belfast on 19th & 20th June 2010. More information about 5 Rhythms and its therapeutic benefits can be found here.
