ADMP UK Private Practice Training Day

About 

To ensure members remain aware of, and consider, all ethical, practical, emotional, and professional aspects of Private Practice, ADMP offers a low-cost workshop that newly qualified members must attend before applying for Private Practice. This is in addition to regular DMP-specific supervision, where practitioners will prepare draft contracts, referral forms, risk assessments, and business plans.

This eight-hour ADMP training day (with a maximum of 15 participants) provides DMP-specific group time and space to share, hear, explore, clarify, and earnestly consider individual rationales for entering private practice. This co-creative sharing, with DMP co-facilitation, aims to support personal and professional readiness to begin practising autonomously. Through voicing individual concerns, and hearing of others' intentions, preparation, availability of resources, robust ethical considerations, and eagerness to build a private practice case-load, participants can develop hope, assuredness, and understanding of their individual path to a DMP practice within the realms of their skill-set, competencies, knowledge, and understanding.

We are introducing this training day to align with the new Private Practice pathway, which is now open to newly qualified members who may lack the clinical experience and maturity of previous applicants. While we want to enable members to access Private Practice more easily, we also need to ensure safe practice and readiness — and this workshop is designed to hold both of those things together.

Facilitators

Jackie Butler and Geoffery Unkovich