How your practice is consistent with your described way of working (as described in 8.1) The interventions you describe in your case material must be entirely consistent with your previously described rationale for your way of working under criterion8.1. You should not reference criterion 8 in your case material, but whenever you feel that you are demonstrating how you use your rationale and the theories which underpin your practice you should reference this to 9.1. Tell us how you worked, what you did and why you made the interventions described. Remember all approaches used in criterion 9.1 need to be part of the rationale described in 8.1. 9.2 How you use you self-awareness in the therapeutic relationship You need to illustrate how you used your own reflective awareness of yourself (i.e. your own thoughts, feelings and responses to the case material) in the work undertaken. Remember it is your self-awareness that is being assessed, rather than whether self-awareness was gained by your client. Sometimes applicants erroneously write about awareness (of the counselling process for example) rather than self-awareness, which is what the assessors are looking for. 9.3 How your practice demonstrates your awareness of issues of difference and equality and the impact they have upon your counselling/psychotherapy relationships Remember, the whole of criterion 9 should be case material and so you need to explain how your awareness of issues of difference and equality impacted upon the work you did with the client or clients you have chosen to write about. How did your awareness of issues of difference and equality between you and your client affect the way you worked? How did your client/clients perceive themselves in relation to others? What about similarities? How did you guard against being seduced into over identification by apparent similarities between yourself and/or other client groups and so on? 9.4 Use of the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions In your case material we ask you to relate some aspects of your case material to the Ethical Framework. It will not be possible within the constraints of the word count permitted to make reference to every section and all the guiding principles of the document, nor would it be likely that you would need to do so with just a single client. However, you should illustrate how you made use of elements of the Ethical Framework within your work. The work may have posed an Ethical Dilemma for example, oryou may have found maintaining boundaries challenging etc. The task is to select specific examples which you feel demonstrate your ethical awareness and thinking in order to demonstrate that you meet the standard for accreditation; ‘the capacity for independent, competent, ethical practice.