Pastoral accompaniment at the end of life
Aim of training: The purpose of this training is to equip and enable pastoral carers to accompany those within our churches and communities who are at the end of their life.
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ACC’s registered and accredited counsellors/psychotherapists are recognised within the professional counselling/psychotherapy world as having achieved the appropriate education, skill, and knowledge to be able to practice safely in all settings. Our levels of membership map to the Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) competency framework developed by six Professional Standards Authority accredited bodies, including ACC, BACP, and UKCP which represent over 75,000 counsellors and psychotherapists. ACC members are employed in the same way as other professional counsellors/psychotherapists, for example, the NHS, schools and universities, prisons, employee assistance services and private counselling/psychotherapy services. ACC members’ unique value is ensuring that clients have choice in selecting a counsellor or psychotherapist who shares, values and respects religious faith and spirituality. Importantly, ACC members work with people of all faiths and none, without discrimination, and within a code of ethics and practice.
As an example of the value of providing a service that is open to all, delivered by counsellors who are Christian, NHS England and NHS Improvement commissioned ACC to provide a counselling service to their employees between 2021 and 2023.
Pastoral care workshops and courses
We are committed to promoting quality pastoral care through our training resources which enable:
- ALL of church to develop quality relationships
- SOME of church to develop their pastoral gifts
- a FEW of church to equip the all and the some
Each resource is interactive, raising questions, encouraging the sharing of experience, embracing discussion, developing skills where appropriate and using scripture and prayer.
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CYP Forum
“I know you’re a counsellor. Any chance you can have a word with my grandson. I’m really worried about him.”
Working with stones in counselling
This training will look at introducing stones into the counselling room. We will explore together plain and varnished stones, emotion faces stones, wrapped stones, with an opportunity to explore further in breakout groups.
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Regulation of the profession
A recent article in The Guardian “All psychotherapists in England must be regulated, experts say, after abuse claims rise” (read article here), raised the issue of the dangers of psychotherapists not being regulated and that MPs would consider lobbying the government to revisit statutory regulation of psychotherapy and counselling. The MPs concern seems to arise from reports of a rise in lawsuits by patients for alleged harm done during therapy.
Coalition of mental health organisations to tackle the impacts of climate change
ACC has joined other leading mental health organisations to form a coalition calling for more support to protect the UK’s mental health in the face of climate change.
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