To achieve
the necessary number of Credits, the Academy requires graduates to bring Clients to the Academy clinic, to fulfil all the stated number
of Clinic sessions, at present two. Plan early to fulfil this requirement, diarise it in your schedule, and do not leave it
to the last minute. Failure to fulfil this requirement will lead to your Diploma certificate being withheld.
If a Student
is seeing another undergraduate, or Graduate of the Academy on a Client basis, with proper case notes, then the Student may bring
that “Client” to a clinic session, in order partly to fulfil the academic requirements. The only exception to this is where
the two Students are in a personal relationship or married, respecting normal ethical practice.
If the student cancels a Clinic
Practice session for whatever reason with less than 48 hours notice, the student will be responsible for paying the assessing tutors
fee. The student will then be responsible to arrange another Clinic Practice session.
The Appointments will be set up by the
Principal. Clinic times on specific days will be set aside for this purpose, and these dates will be made available to the Students.Appointments will be set up on an hour and a half basis. The Student will need to plan to arrive at the same time as the Client if
they are travelling separately.
The first fifteen minutes will be an opportunity for the Student to talk to their client and
look at or take case notes and discuss the current situation. The next hour will be available for treatment time although if you finish
before that is acceptable. The tutor will not interrupt the session with suggestions. The final fifteen minutes is available
for the student to express how they felt about the session and for the tutor to give the student feedback and any suggestions.
Any
suggestions made by Tutors will be presented as, “Have you considered….?” or “In my experience of similar cases, we found…”. Tutors
will not “take over” the situation, nor will they say or do anything which might appear to contradict or undermine the Student’s actions
or advice, but always only in the spirit to add the possibility of an additional approach which might be helpful to the Client. Any
matters which need comment or to be
discussed, will be dealt with privately. Very seldom students are asked to return a third time
unless a problem has occurred.
These are clinical assessments. This whole procedure is designed to further enhance the self-esteem
of the student, and to encourage the confidence of the client in the student, and in Advanced Kinesiology, and to give the student
valuable opportunities to work with other practitioners. Students who approach these sessions in the right spirit enjoy them and gain
greatly from them.
ALL CLINIC PRACTICE SESSIONS WILL BE HELD AT THE ACADEMY.
ASSESSORS ARE:
CLAIRE MOFFAT DIP A.S.K. and
LOUISE FORREST CERT A.S.K.
