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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Guidelines and Terms of Professional Membership
1. INTRODUCTION
This document puts forward a plan for developing the practice of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for the ADMT UK. Dance Movement Therapists are now in the process of state registration through the Health Professions Council (HPC). The HPC has indicated that although at present there are no definitive guidelines, there will be an obligation to maintain our skill levels at a level at least comparable to that achieved on completion of a training course. Subsequent legislation may provide clearer requirements. The aim of the Association is, therefore, to provide a simple, workable structure that will be easy to understand, simple to fulfil and useful to each individual CPD aims to extend and deepen knowledge, competence and scope of practice rather that allowing it to plateau.
1) The aim of the ADMT UK CPD scheme is to encourage members to:
- Maintain and update existing skills
- Provide a means to acquire new skills and interests
- Develop interests and skills in addition to core dance movement therapy skills relevant to your practice
- Make active contributions to the discipline and profession of dance movement therapy
- Encourage development of a personal career structure
- Encourage responsibility for own CPD
2) The responsibility has been placed firmly with each individual to identify their own learning requirements and to reflect on the area of study that is chosen. We hope that this scheme will be able to accommodate any extra requirements that arise as a result of changes within and external to the profession.
3) It should be noted that members are expected to adhere to the Code of Practice with regard to clinical supervision, whether or not they choose to include this in their CPD hours. It is likely that the CPD scheme will be modified in the future in order to link the requirements of the post-diploma supervision scheme to state registration.
2. GUIDELINES FOR COMPLETION OF CPD REQUIREMENT
1. What is continuing Professional Development?
CPD is a process within which you identify your professional learning needs, undertake study and apply the knowledge learnt in your work. As a registered member of the ADMT UK you have undertaken a commitment in your Code of Practice to maintain professional competence. We hope that the ADMT UK Continuing Professional development scheme will help provide a structure to monitor and document this process through lifelong learning.
Commitment to CPD is now expected from many professionals by employers, the public and professional statutory bodies. The ultimate aim of CPD is to raise standards of practice.
2. How much CPD do I need to undertake?
24 hours per year, of which 12 can be supervision. Members are of course free to exceed this amount.
Try and spread your hours across a wide variety of CPD in order to include a wide range of activities and topics of learning.
3. What can I do in order to fulfil my CPD requirements?
A wide range of activities can be included in CPD. We would encourage members to choose their own methods and styles of learning.
1) Extend your range of professional skills and knowledge by attending activities such as:
- Courses
- Conferences
- Lectures
- ADMT UK annual meetings
2) Maintaining your dance or movement facilitating skills at the highest level of professional competence by attending and facilitating
- Improvisation groups
- Dance or movement skills training or development
- Dance or movement classes
3) Ensure that you receive supervision of your clinical practice in accordance with the current criteria for registration document of ADMT UK.
4) Develop your practice and contribute to the knowledge base of the profession through academic study by undertaking such activities as
- Reading relevant journals and book
- Writing a paper, article or book
- Undertaking research
- Reflective Practice
3. YOUR CPD LOG, JOURNAL AND DECLARATION
We suggest that you use the following headings to complete your journal:
- What is my learning or development need and how can I fulfil this need
- What have I done in order to develop my practice in this area?
- What have I learnt from my study?
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At present, no special courses have been registered as CPD — although there have been a number of requests to do so. The ADMT UK plans to commission particular study days based on member's requirements. You might like to make your employers aware that we have a CPD scheme for members and that future state registration places an obligation on all of us to complete the CPD requirements.
- This scheme will be reviewed in March 2005.
Issue No. 2
November 2004
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