I am a bit late in putting this entry together. After a Marlin weekend I like to write an entry the following day. However, Monday brought some good and some bad news. The good news is that I have an interview with the Accreditation Panel. The bad news is that the interview falls on February 28th which is the next Marlin training weekend. The interview is at 4pm so if I can't get it re-arranged I'll only miss an afternoon. It does however beg the question as to how the ANLP PCS, who are involved in the course, managed to arrange this clash.

One good point that was brought out this past weekend was news about our placements. In my entry of Nov 15th I said that we needed to spend 8 days in a clinical setting. We were informed this weekend that this was a mistake and there is no such requirement, except in the optional NHS module. This is good news as MIND have still not gotten back to me with any answer - I hope that their clients get better treatment. Also I received a call from Charing Cross Hospital where I had been given a contact name for a possible placement. They only do psychodynamic psychotherapy - I was told. Ooops !
No luck there.

So, this second day we discussed working with mandated clients. These are clients who have come for therapy at someone else's command. I've not had any experience of this yet but I expect to at sometime in the future. John Eaton, our trainer gave us three possible models of therapeutic relationship. I would guess that copyright belongs to him or at least acknowledgment. Describing first the client position and then the therapist these are:

Lots of good discussion on these. We spent the afternoon in different peer supervision groups and I got some really good ideas about a client of mine who has, or appears to have, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Today I tried out these ideas and my client agreed that they would help. We shall see.