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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Guidelines and Terms of Professional Membership
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8. CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
8.1 INTRODUCTION
All registrants are required to undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a condition of their registration. The aim of the Association is 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. This is to guarantee that all registered Dance Movement Psychotherapists maintain and develop their practice throughout their career to make sure that they retain their capacity to practice safely and effectively within their evolving scope of practice.
*The requirements have been set up to ensure that we are in keeping with HPC standards
The aim of the ADMP UK CPD scheme is to ensure that members:
- Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities.
- Update existing skills and acquire new skills.
- Demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to their current or future practice.
- Develop interests and skills in addition to core Dance Movement Psychotherapy skills that contribute to the quality of their practice and service delivery.
- Make active contributions to the discipline and profession of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
- Encourage development of a personal career structure
- Encourage responsibility for own CPD
Questions you may want to consider. What have I done in order to develop my practice in this area? What have I learnt from my study?’
8.1.1
The responsibility is placed firmly with the individual, so you can identify your own learning requirements. 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. The process is ‘context-driven’ and should reflect the individual registrant’s scope of practice. If a registrant’s particular circumstances influence their scope of practice, this will be reflected in their CPD activities and the assessors’ expectations.
- You should aim for your CPD to improve the quality of your work so it is important to take this into account when you choose your CPD activities.
- You should aim for your CPD to benefit service users. Depending on where and how you work, service users might include patients, clients, your team, or students.
8.1.2
It should be noted that you, as members of ADMP, are expected to adhere to the Code of Practice with regard to clinical supervision, as it is a requirement of your professional code of practice. This will not be included in CPD
8.2 GUIDELINES FOR COMPLETION OF CPD REQUIREMENT
8.2.1 What is continuing Professional Development?
CPD is a process in which to identify your professional learning needs, undertake study and apply the knowledge learnt to your work. As a registered member of the ADMP UK you have undertaken a commitment in your Code of Practice to maintain professional competence. We hope that the ADMP 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 and ensure standards of practice.
8.2.2 How much CPD do I need to undertake?
24 hours per year. You 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.
8.2.3 What can I do in order to fulfil my CPD requirements?
A wide range of activities can be included in CPD. We would encourage you to choose your own methods and styles of learning (see below).
8.2.4 Explanation of CPD activities as presented on the log sheet
At least 12 hours of activities must be undertaken from section C. (Clinical Skills)
A. Research and Publications
Publishing papers, books, etc; presenting at conferences, engaging in research, being a member of a discussion/reading group.
B. Academic
Courses - e.g. skill and management training, staff development, health and safety, in-service training; committee and other organisational work, attending AGMs, etc.
C. Clinical Skills
Workshops, conferences, seminars, groups that maintain dance or movement facilitating skills.
D. Other
Any other activities that don’t fall into the A – C categories above, that you feel have contributed to your participation and development as a DMP.
8.3 YOUR CPD LOG AND DECLARATION
Please document your CPD on the simple log sheet attached. We suggest that you fill in your log sheet and a journal each time you undertake CPD. You should keep a copy of your log sheet with your journal. We simply need you to keep a record of your activities and, if assessed, show that you have met the standards.
8.4 HOW IS CPD MONITORED?
1) ADMP UK require you to discuss the CPD that you have undertaken this year, with a colleague, a peer or a supervisor. This is in order to give you an opportunity to review your CPD activities with someone else as a support for your work. Your reviewer should preferably be an Arts Psychotherapist who will read your log sheet and journal, and then discuss with you the CPD you have undertaken.
2) When this has taken place, please ask your reviewer to read and sign the log sheet.
8.5 CONCLUSION
It has been decided that all members will be expected to keep the log sheet and a journal as a declaration that appropriate CPD has been undertaken. A copy of the log sheet only will be required when renewing membership. ADMP UK will undertake a spot-check monitoring procedure each year to ensure that members are following the professional code of practice guidelines and the CPD requirements.
If you are selected for a spot-check, we will write to you and ask you to send us information showing how your CPD over the last year has met our standards. Therefore, you will need to look through your entire record of CPD activities and consider which activities best show how you have met our standards. This should be a mixture of activities that are directly linked to your current or future work, and you should consider how you can provide evidence that these activities have improved your work, and benefited service users. In all cases, evidence of how you have planned your CPD, what activities you have undertaken, and the effects that this had on how you work and the effects on your service users, will all be helpful to the assessors.
Your Supporting Evidence In your personal record of CPD activities you may have a large amount of evidence relating to certain activities. You do not need to send us the full record of all your CPD activities. You may send us a summary of all your activities, which should be a sheet or two with a list of activities and dates. You need to look at the information you have, decide which activities show how you meet our standards, and then decide what evidence to send to us. You should refer to the assessment criteria in this document. Make sure you have provided relevant supporting information to show how you meet each of the standards. You should bear in mind that the CPD assessors will need to see enough information to be sure that the CPD activity has taken place.
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Revised April 2009
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