Cafcass Clinical FCA’s: practicing as psycho dynamic psychotherapists

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Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Cafcass training shows FCA’s are being provided with training to use ‘Mentalization’ : (Mentalization based-treatment, a form of psychodynamic psychotherapy) which is a specialised psychotherapeutic modality requiring registration to practice therefore:

1a Please provide the number of FCA’s qualified in Psychodynamic psychotherapy
b. Of these how many listed on the registers of :British Psychological Society (BPA) , British Association for Counselling (BACP) and UK council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or registers of psychotherapeutic counsellors or psychotherapists.

Cafcass training also incorporates ‘Use of self’: therapist (FCA) use of self depends on their awareness of counter transference.

2a.Please provide the training provide to FCA’s in transference/countertransference
b. Please provide the clinical supervision provided to FCA’s in this clinical work and the tools available to Cafcass FCA’s to avail themselves of their unavoidable emotional reactions to clients (as per your training )

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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