Continuing Professional Development

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which members of professional associations maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the personal qualities required in their professional lives. In recent years many professional bodies have developed explicit CPD policies and made CPD a requirement for continued membership.

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Golding, L & Gray, I. (2006)(eds) Continuing professional development for clinical psychologists: A practical handbook. Oxford: BPS Blackwell.

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Department of Health (UK) (1999) Continuing professional development: quality in the new NHS. London. HMSO Division of Clinical Psychology. (2001). Guidelines for continuing professional development. Leicester. British Psychological Society