President’s Message What’s on the Horizon for CCPA Greetings!
As I am writing this message to you, summer hasn’t completely slipped away, but by the time you read the fall edition of Cognica, Al- berta will be at its most golden. The aspens will have turned a dazzling sunburst shade and the golden colours of the wheat fields will span for miles across the landscape. It is at this beautiful time of the year that I welcome back our members to another year with CCPA.
What is on CCPA’s horizon as summer draws to a close? A number of trends that will shape the profession’s future have been taking form for many years and continue to evolve. CCPA’s Executive and Board are at work on a number of projects. Let me draw your attention to some of the Board’s major initiatives over the next months.
As the national association for counselling and psychotherapy, CCPA has been instru- mental in setting professional and ethical standards for the counselling/psychotherapy profession. This coming spring, a new eth- ics case book will be available authored by researchers and counsellor educators from across the nation. In the same format as the previous edition, a number of new issues are addressed including: certification of career counsellors, culturally-infused counsel- ling, counsellor isolation in private practice, secondary trauma and compassion fatigue, and working with clients using electronic platforms.
The Association already has a solid counsel- lor certification program (the Canadian Certi- fied Counsellor or CCC). As the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists continues
to occur, there will be a growing need for our members to obtain clinical supervision in order to meet the criteria for more direct client contact hours than was required in their programs. However, most graduates of counselling programs do not receive training in supervision. Therefore, CCPA has devel- oped the Canadian Certified Counsellor- Supervisor (CCC-S) program to address this gap. There are basic qualifications needed to apply for supervision as a specialty ad- junct to CCC with four potential pathways to obtain certification (see the CCPA website). Once again an online course will be offered through the University of Ottawa in January 2014 (
http://www.ccpa-accp.ca/en/counsellingsupervision/). Plans are in the making to have a French ver- sion of the course available too. Meanwhile, webinars are being developed to support the CCC-S program and the requirement for Con- tinuing Education Credits (CECs) in this area for those holding the certificate. David Paré from the University of Ottawa will be pre- senting two webinars: Creating Counsellor Reflective Communities (October 23rd) and Micro-practices of Reflective Supervision (November 20th). More webinars focused on supervision are being developed in addition to a textbook on supervision to be published in 2015.
CCPA strives to promote recognition of pro- fessional counsellors and psychotherapists to the public and the media. To this end, CCPA has engaged a media specialist to as- sist the association in responding to current events in a timely way through press re- leases. Taking this step has led to increased opportunities for interviews in the public domain. Beth Robinson, CCPA Director for Nova Scotia, has been interviewed twice in
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