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As A Clinical Team Leader, Do You Sometimes Wish You Had Magic Powers?

Psychology Tools
Published
1 July 2020

If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place.

With the number of conflicting challenges and different needs you have to manage in your role, we know that sometimes magic powers would be pretty helpful.

Whether it’s the pressure of reducing waiting lists while managing heavy caseloads, being accountable for driving clinical standards, or improving throughput, you’re always being pushed to achieve more with less.

You want your team to feel supported to deliver great therapy, to know they have access to the best tools and materials, and to be able to learn and grow through high-quality supervision and professional development. But you also know how much time and resources this requires to be done properly.

You’re proud of your team and the great work they do supporting those in distress. You know it’s important to ensure their wellbeing is a priority and they’re protected from burnout, but at the same time you’re under pressure to increase efficiency and workloads, with reduced budgets. It can sometimes feel impossible to do everything.

But what if you didn’t need a magic wand to achieve the impossible?

Psychology Tools makes it easier for teams to deliver great therapy, more efficiently – which means benefits for you, your organization, and your staff.

 

Create more time for your team

Finding great quality resources for your practice just became much quicker and easier. Reduce the preparation time needed for individual and group sessions with our easy-to-search resource library of 450+ resources. Choose from worksheets, handouts, exercises, therapy audio, guides, and Treatments That Work titles. Evidence-based resources can be emailed directly to clients from our website, saving even more valuable minutes. Think what could be achieved with the time saved.

Help clients get better faster

Our tools are created by highly qualified mental health professionals, so we know what works. Cognitive behavioral models and case conceptualization tools help your team stay on model, reducing therapist drift and enabling more efficient work. Flexible resources in multiple formats means clients can use a learning style that’s right for them. Our client and professional versions (available for all worksheets, information handouts, and exercises) are optimized for the differing needs of practitioners and clients, enabling therapy to be delivered most effectively. And with 3000+ translated resources in 70+ languages, people can be supported in their own language, facilitating a deeper understanding of their treatment.

Enhance your team’s practice

Our materials are designed to help people deliver better quality therapy and develop their practice. Strong theory-practice links are easier to make because we pay special attention to the theories underpinning resources.

Resources can also be used in supervision to ensure supervisees keep learning how to tackle challenging cases – there’s a wide range of tools for assessment, formulation, intervention, and evaluation.

Support professional development

Resources that enable your team to continue their learning and development can only be a good thing.

Designed for practitioners, professional versions include everything a clinician needs to help them use each tool most effectively. As well as the resource, each PDF contains theoretical context and background, instructions for delivering the resource, suggested prompts, and references. Some resources also include case examples and annotations where appropriate.

This guidance enables professionals to confidently use new materials and expand their practice toolkit. Full references for each resource mean your staff can read further into areas they’re less familiar with and increase their knowledge. With new content added regularly, your team can use tools and articles to keep learning about latest techniques and theories.

Support and empower your staff

Helping people to feel supported at work, and well equipped practically and emotionally in their roles, means they will feel more empowered and energized in their practice.

Your organization benefits too

Ultimately, enabling your team to work more efficiently and effectively means you will all have more capacity to work towards the objectives and goals of your organization, solving the challenges it faces. As well as being able to give more people the support they need, which, after all, is what it’s all about.

Are you interested in helping your team and your organization work smarter?

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