Counselling and Psychotherapy

We provide reduced cost counselling and psychotherapy to staff working in the area. This service is provided in Fairview, Dublin.

Visit www.corecounselling.ie for more information.

External Supervision

We offer external professional supervision to Directors, Manager and senior staff within organisations. With a view to enhancing outcomes, we use a four-function model which sees Support, Learning & Development, Accountability and Mediation as cornerstones to good supervision.

Supervision Training for Supervisors

This is a three day training programme which provides professional supervision training to supervisors. It follows a four function model as developed by Tony Morrison (2001). In this context supervision is seen as a partnership between supervisee, supervisor and the organization. The programme is targeted at supervisors who have responsibility for staff working with vulnerable people. This can include professionals who have a supervisory responsibility in social care, education and justice settings.

Course Objectives:

• Equip supervisors with the knowledge and skills to supervise staff constructively and effectively.
• Understand the tasks involved in the, developmental, supportive and meditative elements.
• Equip supervisors to establish and maintain appropriate agendas and boundaries in order to provide good outcomes.

Course Outline:

• To understand the principles and purpose of supervision;
• To understand the components of and be able to negotiate a viable supervision contract;
• To understand and be able to apply Kolb’s Reflective Practice Cycle;
• To understand the role of supervision in promoting anti-discriminatory practice;
• To review and develop supervisory skills;
• To understand and be able to address the impact of anxiety on supervision and decision making;
• To understand how to give positive and critical feedback;
• To enable participants to review and record their current levels of competence and set goals to improve their supervisory practice.

We provide training and consultancy to organisations working with people who can display challenging behaviour. This includes services working with adults, young people and children.

Types of services include community groups, adult ID/LD services, mental health, addiction and homeless services, school and education settings, residential care, elder care, prison staff  and foster carers.

The TCI system was developed at Cornell University, New York. The purpose of the TCI system is to provide a crisis prevention and intervention model for organizations that will assist in:

• Preventing crisis/challenging behaviour from occurring
• De-escalating potential crisis/challenging behaviour
• Effectively managing acute crises
• Reducing potential and actual injury to service users and staff
• Learning constructive ways to handle stressful situations
• Developing a learning circle within the organization

Children First

We offer a one day training course on Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children.

The Children First: National Guidance is intended to assist people in identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect and deal effectively with concerns. It emphasizes that the needs of children and families must be at the centre of child protection and welfare services, and that the welfare of children is of paramount importance. It highlights the roles and responsibilities of the HSE and An Garda Síochána, which are the two agencies with statutory responsibility for child protection. It also offers guidance to agencies and community and voluntary organisations (e.g. religious/faith sector, sporting organisations, etc) that have contact with or provide services to children. (Children First, p4)

Safeguarding and Child Protection

We also offer child protection training specifically dealing with providing safe care for young people in residential care. Creating a professional culture of openness and transparency within the residential care setting is essential for services to achieve best practice standards in keeping young people safe. This training is aimed at those working in a residential setting and will include an examination of the processes and procedures necessary to make a residential environment safer for young people and staff. It will focus on the creation of a culture of openness, on the systems which promote a safer environment, on professional boundaries in the caring relationship, policy and procedure documentation and reflective practice.