Course Description
This course aims to provide professionals with a comprehensive understanding of professional boundaries, including different types of boundaries, their necessity, and the roles and responsibilities of individuals and organizations in maintaining them. The course will also cover the importance of privacy, confidentiality, and informed consent in support services.
Course Content
By the end of this session learners will:
- Be able to define sexual violence;
- Understand the possible impacts of sexual violence on the victim/survivor and their friends/family/partner;
- Feel confident to challenge commonly held myths around sexual violence and sexual abuse;
- Understand how to provide an effective response to a disclosure of sexual violence;
- Know what relevant services are available locally;
- Have a better understanding of who perpetrates sexual violence;
- Gain a deeper knowledge of the impacts of sexual violence and how they can “ripple” out to affect every aspect of a victim/survivor’s life;
- Acquire insight into the trauma caused by sexual violence and how it affects the brain, body, and behaviour;
- Develop an improved understanding of how victims/survivors learn to cope with trauma symptoms;
- Achieve clarity about the gendered nature of sexual violence; and
- Develop a strong conviction that challenging sexist behaviour can make a real difference.
Delivery
This can be delivered as an interactive webinar (two three-hour sessions) or as a whole day classroom-based session. Learner resources include:
Workbook; Powerpoint slides; Information packs; and follow-up resources.
On completion, learners receive a CPD accreditation certificate.
Who's It For?
Charity sector.
Learning Objectives
Understand different types of boundaries
- be able to identify whether specific behaviours indicate helpful behaviours in a work context or not
- be able to define different boundary types and give examples
- be able to identify different types of boundary
Understand why professional boundaries are necessary
- know the purpose of professional boundaries
- be able to identify when boundaries are being pushed or breached
- understand why people might push or breach boundaries
- understand what the consequences might be of boundaries being pushed or breached
Understand organisational and individual responsibilities in maintaining boundaries
- understand the importance of workplace policies and procedures to maintain boundaries
- understand individual responsibilities related to maintaining boundaries
- understand how the drama triangle and transactional analysis might help to understand why boundaries are pushed or breached
- recognise why individuals with mental health or emotional well-being needs might push or breach boundaries
- be able to reflect on things that might impact your own ability to maintain a boundary
Understand the importance of privacy, confidentiality and informed consent in support services
- be able to identify which data needs to be collected
- understand why that data is collected
- evaluate how data sharing might negatively impact service users and organisations
- understand individual and organisational responsibilities in data sharing
- be able to reflect on what might contribute to data being shared inappropriately
- be able to identify what individuals need to do to ensure service users’ privacy and confidentiality is maintained
- know what additional support is needed to be able to maintain privacy and confidentiality
