Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of

counseling and psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hi, I'm Rory and of course, as always, is with me is Ken. How are you, Ken?

Exceptionally grateful to be here, Rory. You've joined us at episode 154 of the Counseling Tudor podcast.

Three topics we're going to be discussing today, starting with something really, I guess, of the moment, and that is placement interviews.

If you're on a course where you need to do placement hours and you haven't yet gone into placement, then you're kind of going to be looking around at this moment.

So very topical.

And then we're going to check in with CPCAB.

And Rory, you met up with Kelly Budd to speak about something that I think is vitally important, not just for students,

but for qualified counsellors. And that's a term called deliberate practice. Yeah, absolutely,

Ken. And CPCAB have coined this phrase, really, although they've certainly transmitted this

phrase, about how we make sure that we're working to optimum

levels with clients. What do we need to do to make sure that we are the best we can be?

Yeah, I guess it's you have CPD, but then you have deliberate practice which focuses down even more.

And then we're going to check in with our last section,

which is our practice matter section, where we take something that may appear in a therapy

room, something we might come across and we're going to be looking at Stockholm Syndrome today.

Interesting topic with an interesting story. You don't want to miss that. But let's start off with thinking about

those placement interviews. And just before we even get into this topic, there's a super duper handout

on this. And we'll give you a little bit more information on that. So whether you're in

placement or about to go into placement or placement is somewhere in the future you're going to want

this handout because they can bring up a lot of, I guess, anxiety, Rory, when you've got this

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