Assessing Risk: Confrontation or Avoidance?What Is Taught on Counsellor Training Courses

Autor/inn/en	Reeves, Andrew; Wheeler, Sue; Bowl, Ric
Titel	Assessing Risk: Confrontation or Avoidance?What Is Taught on Counsellor Training Courses
Quelle	32 (2004) 2, S.235-247 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0306-9885
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Suicide; Mental Health; At Risk Persons; Mental Health Workers; Violence; Counselor Training; Supervision; Response Rates (Questionnaires); Risk Management + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Selbstmord; Psychohygiene; Risikogruppe; Psychiater; Gewalt; Antwortkontrolle; Risikomanagement
Abstract	Recent mental health policy development has focused on the assessment and management of risk in vulnerable clients. Counsellors have a significant role to play in delivering mental health care in a range of settings, with clients sometimes presenting with suicidal ideation, self-injury and a risk of violence. The aim of this research was to explore the profile of risk assessment teaching within BACP accredited courses. A total of 49 BACP accredited courses were contacted and 24 responded. This response rate is discussed with particular reference to those courses that did not respond to the questionnaire. Risk assessment was viewed as an important consideration for counsellor training whilst suicide and self-harm seemed to have a higher profile than violence to others. Supervision was cited by the majority of respondents to have an important role in developing trainees' skills in assessing risk. The implications of the findings of this study for how counsellors are prepared by their training experiences to work with clients at risk are discussed and some recommendations made for future training developments. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10