ABSTRACT
This chapter explores development of clinical skills, with particular emphasis on interpersonal behaviours. Various professional guidelines will be examined for indicative characteristics considered to be important. There are many stages along the way to becoming a therapist: some have signposts, written in a language one can read, while others arise in a person’s thinking, generated by a sense of altruism, of wanting to make a contribution, and there are those that appear more opportunistically, like a door that opens, inviting entry. There are documents which specify the competencies, knowledge and understanding required for working clinically with a PWS. However, often such documents fail to address issues concerning personal characteristics and attributes a clinician brings to the therapeutic process and which can be crucial in achieving desired outcomes.
