Social Services offered by Chartered Psychologists
Risk analysis, breakdown,
children's reports, parental guidance, BAAF guidelines,
abuse in adoption and fostering, broken families,
place of safety orders.
Residential care, HEPs, dementia, confusion, old age, dependant parents, stimulation, staff training, neurological testing, skill maintenance, terminal care, carer training.
Child sexual abuse, incest, risk analysis, assessment of trauma, treatment for victim/perpetrator, court reports, consequences of physical abuse, violence within the family, neglect, Children Act (1989), training, prostitution.
Cognitive behavioural methods, interpretational methods, harm limitation, self control anger management, stress management, temptation control, assertion, covert sensitization, befriending, post traumatic stress disorder, bereavement counselling, programming, self assessment, sexual counselling.
Advice to Social Services, advice to police, court reports, victim support, offender debrief and support, therapy, group work and risk assessment.
Cultural factors, language factors, religious factors, inner-city problems, hostility to authority, under-valuing, black psychology, racism, under-privilege, housing, uptake of services, anti-discriminatory practice.
Sexuality, power politics, rape, sexual discrimination, familial roles, devaluing, stereotyping, abuse, harassment, transsexualism and transvestism, homosexuality, AIDS, HIV
Care and control Children Act, Education Act, Disabled Persons Act, Care in the Community, Griffiths 2, NHS reform, working for patients, court reports, forensic evidence, giving evidence, child sexual abuse, risk analysis, interviewing victims, interviewing perpetrators, probation, police, solicitors, barristers, juvenile justice, expert testimony, care assistant training.
Problem solving, communication, decision-making arbitration, personnel, occupational health, stress management, anger management, assertion.
Interviewing, questionnaires, objective methods, projective methods, informal interviews.
Debrief, post traumatic stress disorder, bereavement, counselling, flashbacks, hyper-vigilance, rehabilitation, management of disasters, planning, psychological sequelae of burns, psychological consequences of war, over-protection, crisis psychology, guilt, anger, stress management, re-employment.
Learning difficulties, Down’s Syndrome, skill acquisition, training, ATCs, SECs, residential care, challenging behaviours, severe brain damage, community support, rehabilitation, normalisation, parent and carer training, portage, secure accommodation, programming, shared action plans, care assistant training.
Psychology, psychiatry, mental health, child development, learning theory, programmes, report writing, observation, data collection objectivity, empathy, statistics, interpretation, normalisation, rehabilitation, multi-disciplinary work, mental health, substance use.