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Social Services offered by Chartered Psychologists

7.1 Adoption and Fostering

Risk analysis, breakdown, children's reports, parental guidance, BAAF guidelines, abuse in adoption and fostering, broken families, place of safety orders.

7.2 Care of the Elderly in the Community

Residential care, HEPs, dementia, confusion, old age, dependant parents, stimulation, staff training, neurological testing, skill maintenance, terminal care, carer training.

7.3 Child Protection

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.

7.4 Counselling and Direct Psychological Intervention with Clients

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.

7.5 Offending

Advice to Social Services, advice to police, court reports, victim support, offender debrief and support, therapy, group work and risk assessment.

7.6 Ethnicity Issues

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.

7.7 Gender Issues

Sexuality, power politics, rape, sexual discrimination, familial roles, devaluing, stereotyping, abuse, harassment, transsexualism and transvestism, homosexuality, AIDS, HIV

7.8 Implications of Legislation (Children Act, Care, Access, Adoption and Fostering, Mental Health Act, etc.)

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.

7.9 Managerial Advice (including service uptake by the community)

Problem solving, communication, decision-making arbitration, personnel, occupational health, stress management, anger management, assertion.

7.10 Personnel Selection

Interviewing, questionnaires, objective methods, projective methods, informal interviews.

7.11 Psychological Aspects of Disasters

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.

7.12 Services to People with Learning Difficulties

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.

7.13 Teaching Psychological Skills and Counselling

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.