Counselling, psychotherapy, ethics and the law with Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins delivers a popular and highly participative one day workshop, designed to clarify the key aspects of the law that relate to, for example, professional negligence, confidentiality, data protection law, the counsellor's duty to warn others, disclosure of records and enforced access to notes by third parties, such as solicitors, police and the courts.

The workshop is based on a combination of short presentations, case study discussion in groups, small group discussion based on short trigger video scenarios, group feedback and discussion, with the facilitator providing brief outlines of the law in non-technical language, with maximum opportunities for dialogue and follow-up questions.

Aims:

The aims of the workshop are:

• to explore legal aspects of therapy
• to identify legal issues of current concern to therapists
• to outline key concepts, i.e. duty of care, confidentiality and the public interest
• to provide information on law and therapeutic practice