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Section 6: Training, governance and the conditions for maintaining good practice 6.1 Practitioners should seek professional training that teaches knowledge of the common mental health conditions and the methods and skills that give the best outcomes for relieving such conditions; 6.2 Because knowledge in these fields continues to expand as further research and insights reach the public domain, so will the professional training sought by practitioners need to take account of such advances wherever they are relevant to therapeutic endeavour; 6.3 Assessment of trainee therapists should include a thorough testing of relevant knowledge and the assessment of audio-visual recordings of their work with clients, so demonstrating, as far as is practicable, that minimum standards of competence have been achieved and demonstrated; 6.4 Practitioners should seek registration with professional associations whose objectives include the commitment to effectiveness in relieving mental distress and based on proper knowledge about the basis of healthy human functioning; 6.4 Therapists should publicly promote themselves as competent only when they have successfully completed all stages of professional training and successfully registered with the HGI/a suitable professional association; 6.5. Continued professional registration should be subject to the minimum standards for professional development and supervision required by the HGI/a suitable professional association. 6.6 Practitioners should seek and record feedback from clients at each therapy session in order to assess the outcomes and therefore the effectiveness of therapy as it progresses; 6.7 Records of outcomes of work with clients should be retained for no less than five years and, where necessary and appropriate, used as a tool for self evaluation, professional supervision and, where appropriate, certain complaints about practitioners by clients; 6.8 The Human Givens Institute shall have the power to remove any name from its register of members for professional misconduct, as determined by due procedure. 6.9 Practitioners are expected to make arrangements for the professional supervision of their work with clients by a suitably accredited person. This is to ensure that sufficiently high standards of professional practice are developed and maintained. The specific requirements of individual therapists will depend on levels of experience and competence. 6.10 Supervisors of therapists should complete an accredited course of learning that tests their ability to provide the oversight and consultation required by practitioners; 6.11 Practitioners should ensure that their professional training is continuously updated and refined, so that core therapeutic skills continue to be polished and, wherever necessary, updated. Records of such continuing professional development should be kept and submitted in due form to the relevant professional association/s; 6.12 Wherever competency to practice as a Human Givens therapist is in doubt andcannot be resolved by the use of informal channels for providing feedback, a complaints procedure is provided below. An upheld complaint against a therapist will be kept on file for two years. << Section 5 Appendix 1 — The observing self >>
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