If you are a therapist looking for an easy self-help book that supports your education and personal development, then
CPD made Easy: Continuing professional development for therapists and the helping professions is for you. Learn to improve your practice, meet the needs for membership of your professional body and find ways to improve your practice.
Today we live in an age when therapists, like many other professionals, strive to improve their practice against time and money constraints. Most therapists know CPD makes sense on an individual level, but it also is important for the professions and the clients we are helping.
What makes this self-help book unique is that, unlike some texts, C
PD made Easy is written by
an experienced therapist Linda Witchell. She has over 30 years as a nurse and educator and more than 16 years as a hypnotherapist, counsellor and coach. In this book, she provides tips and techniques to gain CPD hours based on actual events.
Through her reflection on practice,
this book provides new insight into lifelong learning for therapists by offering a toolkit of 55 ways of doing CPD. It's simply written as it answers those common questions that Linda knows therapists often ask.
CPD made Easy is just
as described; it is a book designed to be easy to read, understand, record and apply learning in practice. The aim is to make the process of continuing professional development easier for therapists in whatever area of therapy they work. It's not a theory book but based on theoretical approaches. Therefore
CPD made Easy will appeal to therapists in training and experienced therapists, whether working in private practice, for the public sector or in charitable organisations, and those working in the helping professions who have little additional time for searching for ideas to meet their professional requirements.
This book will be invaluable to various therapists, including counsellors, hypnotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, aromatherapists, health and wellbeing coaches, psychotherapists, massage therapists, holistic practitioners and many more therapists who want to do a good job and learn. It will be invaluable to therapists who have just completed their training and are unsure how to start CPD. It will also be useful for experienced therapists who just need some inspiration.
The book is divided into two parts. Part one helps the reader to see the value in taking time out to plan and do CPD. It answers questions and encourages the practitioner to reflect on learning from each section. Part two is a toolkit of 55 examples of CPD practice. Each method is broken down into the pros and cons of the activity for therapists, an idea of the cost, examples of how to record the learning and some additional valuable comments that Linda has collected over the years. There are also signposts to other valuable resources. Linda provides various CPD topics, for example, conventional attendance at workshops and study days to learning by playing games.
Key features include:
- Your questions about CPD answered
- How to record CPD
- What to record as evidence for CPD
- Examples of what to and how to develop your thinking around CPD and personal development
- 55 CPD topics to choose from
- And all written in an easy-to-follow format.
If you are looking for a practical book to help you choose your next CPD activity,
CPD made Easy will provide that and more.
