Effective and respectful interaction with Māori: How the regulators of health professionals are responding to the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Act 2019

AIMS: To ascertain the response of registered health professional regulators to the legislated requirement under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Act 2019 (HPCA Amendement Act) that practitioners are culturally competent and, specifically, enabling "effective and respectful interaction with Māori". METHOD: A document analysis of the extent to which the culturally competent requirement is indicated in information about professional competencies within publicly available information of the 17 responsible authorities (RAs) that govern health practitioners under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance legislation. RESULTS: Three years after the amendment to the original Act (HPCA Act) requiring health professionals to be culturally competent specifically in relation to interacting with Māori, only four of the 17 RAs fully reference the amended requirement, and only two RAs link this specific cultural competence to the requirements of the amended Act (HPCA Amendment Act). The majority of the RAs have yet to integrate references to engaging with Māori in this way into their professional competencies. CONCLUSIONS: Culturally competent practice is only meaningful once it is enacted by individual practitioners in their interactions with others. It is imperative for RAs to include the cultural competence requirement into their published information about professional competencies as this would signal to the profession, practitioners, and wider community that effective and respectful interaction with Māori is a fundamental expectation of all health practitioners in this country. Other issues identified during the analysis suggest an emphasis on administration and bureaucracy. This presents an opportunity for consolidating the practice of RAs including how key functions are expressed and promulgated.

Online therapies and the person-centered approach

This special issue came about in reponse to the coronavirus pandemic and the rapid shift (in April and May 2020) of psychotherapy, counseling, and other psychological therapies from face-to-face in person to face-to-face online. In May 2020, Keith wrote to David, enquiring as to whether there were any plans for a special issue of I PCEP i on this subject;David said that there were none, but asked if Keith would be interested in proposing one;the rest, as they say, is history! The third article, by Kate Dunn and John Wilson, invites us to take a step back to consider online therapy as a form of therapy "at a distance" which has a number of historical antecedents (including letter writing and telephone counseling/therapy). [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Online video conferencing therapy and the person-centered approach in the context of a global pandemic

ABSTRACT Working therapeutically online can offer a number of challenges, not least to therapists' ideas about ways of engaging and working with clients, and views of reality, as well as to familiar theories about therapy, including the therapeutic relationship or ways of therapeutic relating. Taking Rogers' theory of certain necessary and sufficient conditions - of psychotherapeutic change and of constructive personality change - this article considers each condition with regard to different experiences and aspects of online video conferencing therapy. In doing so, the article tests not only the necessity and sufficiency of these six conditions but also, and in keeping with Rogers' methodology, of the theory itself. As the article was written in a time of a global pandemic, it also offers reflections on the experiences of the authors working therapeutically online in this context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Abstract (French) Le travail therapeutique en ligne peut presenter un certain nombre de defis, non seulement concernant les conceptions des therapeutes quant aux modalites de travail et d'engagement avec les clients et a la perception de la realite, mais aussi concernant les theories usuelles de la therapie, y compris ce qui concerne la relation therapeutique ou la maniere d'etre en relation therapeutique. Sur base de la theorie de Rogers des conditions necessaires et suffisantes - de la psychotherapie et du changement constructif de la personnalite - cet article examine chaque condition en ce qui concerne les differentes experiences et differents aspects de la therapie en ligne par visoconference. Ce faisant, cet article evalue non seulement le caractere necessaire et suffisant de ces six conditions, mais aussi, en phase avec la methodologie de Rogers, la theorie elle-meme. Etant donne que cet article a ete ecrit dans une periode de pandemie planetaire, il propose aussi une reflexion sur l'experience des auteurs dans le travail therapeutique en ligne dans ce contexte. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Abstract (German) Zusammenfassung: Therapeutisches Arbeiten online kann uns vor einige Herausforderungen stellen, nicht zuletzt, was die Vorstellungen der therapeutischen Fachperson angeht, wie man sich einbringt und mit den Klienten arbeitet sowie auch die Sichtweisen auf Realitat, aber auch, was die gangigen Theorien zu Therapie angeht, inklusive die therapeutische Beziehung oder die Art und Weise, sich therapeutisch in Beziehung zu setzen. Wenn man Rogers' Theorie von gewissen notwendigen und hinreichenden Bedingungen nimmt - von therapeutischer Veranderung und von konstruktiver Personlichkeitsveranderung - dann untersucht dieser Artikel jede dieser Bedingungen im Hinblick auf verschiedene Erfahrungen und Aspekte von Online-Video-Therapie. Damit uberpruft dieser Artikel nicht nur die Notwendigkeit und das Hinreichende dieser sechs Bedingungen, sondern auch der Theorie an sich, dies unter Beibehaltung von Rogers' Methodologie. Da der Artikel in einer Zeit globaler Pandemie geschrieben wurde, bietet er auch Reflexionen zu den Erfahrungen der Autoren, als sie unter solchen Bedingungen therapeutisch online arbeiteten. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Abstract (Portuguese) Trabalhar em terapia online pode apresentar diversos desafios, dos quais nao e de desconsiderar a perspetiva do terapeuta acerca de: como envolver os clientes e trabalhar com eles;perspetivas em relacao a realidade e teorias conhecidas sobre terapia, incluindo a relacao terapeutica ou formas de estabelecer uma relacao terapeutica. Partindo da teoria de Rogers de que ha determinadas condicoes necessarias e suficientes - de mudanca terapeutica e de uma mudanca construtiva da personalidade, este artigo considera cada condicao em relacao a diferentes experiencias e aspetos da terapia por videochamada. Ao faze-lo, o artigo testa nao so a necessidade e suficiencia das seis condicoes, mas tambem, e mantendo a metodologia de Rogers, da teoria propriamente dita. Uma vez que o artigo foi escrito numa epoca de pandemia global, ele oferece ainda reflexoes acerca das experiencias dos autores no seu trabalho via internet neste contexto. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Abstract (Spanish) Resumen: Trabajar terapeuticamente en linea puede ofrecer una serie de desafios, entre ellos las ideas de los terapeutas sobre las formas de interactuar y trabajar con los clientes, y las visiones de la realidad, asi como las teorias familiares sobre la terapia, incluida la relacion terapeutica o las formas de relacion terapeutica. Tomando la teoria de Rogers de ciertas condiciones necesarias y suficientes - del cambio psicoterapeutico y del cambio de personalidad constructivo - este articulo considera cada condicion con respecto a diferentes experiencias y aspectos de la terapia de videoconferencia en linea. Al hacerlo, el articulo prueba no solo la necesidad y suficiencia de estas seis condiciones, sino tambien, y de acuerdo con la metodologia de Rogers, de la teoria misma. Dado que el articulo fue escrito en un momento de una pandemia mundial, tambien ofrece reflexiones sobre las experiencias de los autores que trabajan terapeuticamente en linea en este context (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

The challenge of security and accessibility: Critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID-19

Abstract This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in-person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The critique is informed by concerns about the security of online therapeutic practice;informed by, but not restricted to, legislation and practice in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it includes cultural perspectives regarding healthcare provision, specifically with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and, more broadly, with regard to disadvantaged and vulnerable clients and communities throughout the world. The article offers a framework that accounts for the challenge of making practical, culturally appropriate, and therapeutic decisions about the security and accessibility of online therapeutic practice.