Online · Core professional knowledge
Consultation & Consent
How to run a consultation that protects the client and the practitioner, and what informed consent really requires.
About this course
The consultation is where most good outcomes, and most complaints, begin. This course sets out a structured consultation: history, expectations, assessment, options, risks, cooling-off and documentation, and explains what UK law and professional guidance mean by informed consent.
You will work through realistic scenarios, including a client who wants a treatment that is not in their interest, a client under pressure from someone else, and consent that needs to be revisited part-way through a course of treatment.
Who it is for: New and experienced practitioners, and anyone who books or consults for a clinic.
What you will be able to do
- Structure a consultation that covers history, expectations, assessment and options.
- Explain what makes consent informed, voluntary and given with capacity.
- Recognise red flags that mean a treatment should be declined or deferred.
- Use cooling-off periods and written information appropriately.
- Document the consultation and consent so that it stands up to scrutiny.
Course content
1.The consultation
- Purpose and structure of a consultation
- Taking a history and managing expectations · knowledge check
2.Informed consent
- What informed consent requires
- Capacity, vulnerability and pressure
- Cooling-off periods and written information · knowledge check
3.Declining, deferring and documenting
- Declining and deferring treatment
- Documentation that stands up · knowledge check
4.Final assessment
Pass mark 80%. Academy certificate on passing with every lesson complete.
The Beauty Aesthetics Academy is an Approved Provider with The CPD Group (#779331). Provider status is separate from the accreditation of an individual course; this course: cpd accreditation planned.
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