 This is the student placement introductory framework. So why do we do placements? Well, it's important for the beginning student to start their clinical journey with a placement provider who provides a safe setting, a sense of security for the student therapist, a place where they can share their anxieties, and a place where the agency of course does the assessment of clients, where they filter and match up the clients for the therapist, the beginning therapist developmentally, so the mix goes correctly. It's a place where supervision can get supported supervision, placement supported supervision, and also clinical supervision, which you may have to pay for expert, but it's in a supportive session, and also it's pivotal to the young therapist's journey. It's a place where you can network, the placement provider or the agency. It's a good place for you to start gaining mutual collegial journeys to meet fellow student therapists, and of course network within the placement providing system itself. It's a good place to think about career options, establishing contacts, mutual professional journeys, and of course getting in with the placement provider or the agency, so maybe even after the psychotherapy training is over, you've got contacts and places where you may get jobs. In terms of building self-confidence, this placement system is really good for building up professional confidence, learning professional excellence, making mistakes, and how well for professional learning. It's a safe, secure place. The placement usually is two or three placements over 100 hours. So as I said, you get the relevant clinical hours, you get your professional experience, you get the 100 clinical hours, and you may of course do more hours if you were to then go on to register for UKCP. The MIP hours and the BACP hours are 100 clinical hours and the placement, as I said, is a safe, contained environment where there's accountability and feedback between the training organisation and the placement itself. So when do we do the placements? Well, after the student applies for them, usually in the December or the November or even the January of the second year, you need to get the placement in place by the beginning of the third year. Hopefully you'll start before then. As I said, the time frame is that you can apply even a couple of months before you do the clinical endorsement. But you must really realise there's a beginning and ending of the placement and it doesn't go on forever. As I say, the number of hours, 100 hours, is what you need to do, is to go on longer with the placement provider so that you can collect more clinical experience and more hours.