Zahida Abbas
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Supervision details
I provide counselling supervision to a number of colleges and universities on behalf of their Bsc and MSc students, as well as provide clinical supervision to front line staff. I aim to provide clinical supervision that energises & stimulates your continued growth and development for the benefit of your clients and you. I combine Proctor’s 3 Function Model and Page & Wosket's Cyclical Model of supervision. These are useful frameworks to guide our work together. Proctor’s 3 Function’s: Formative function (Learning) · Clinical supervision attends to expanding the skills, abilities and understandings of the supervisee. Restorative function (Support) · Clinical supervision attends to how client work impacts the supervisee. Normative function (Accountability) · Clinical supervision attends to the safety and effectiveness of the supervisee’s practice. Both my Clinical and Supervisory practice is informed by the BACP’s Ethical Framework & Professional Guidelines. Over the years. alongside client work, I have additionally spent considerable time working with supervisees from a variety of different settings in both the public, private and voluntary sectors, across varying levels of experience from trainees to very experienced therapists. I also facilitate group supervision in a number of different settings. My fundamental approach is to offer supervision as a place to receive support and mentoring alongside challenge appropriate to I bring with me the curiosity and ability to provide a safe space to also explore the sometimes complex overlapping challenges in the counselling and supervisory relationships.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
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Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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