IACP to commence annual re-accreditation from 2016

The IACP will move from 5-yearly to annual re-accreditation from 1st January 2016. Here are extracts from the announcement in its latest newsletter to members:

"At some point in over the course of 2016, you will be contacted via email by a member of the IACP Accreditation Department with detailed instructions on how to renew your IACP accreditation for your therapeutic and supervision work.

"Members will be invited to renew their therapeutic accreditation (including Supervisor Accreditation at the same time, if applicable) in one simple application form.

"Your new accreditation date may be on, or after, the date of your current accreditation (according to the month).

"The new accreditation date will calculated by giving you a later date in the year, to ensure you benefit and not lose any months of accreditation.

"Please visit the IACP website for more details and to view a sample of the new re-accreditation application form.

www.iacp.ie/renewal-of-accreditation

"The processing fee for the renewal of IACP accreditation will be €20 per year.

"Any processing fee that has already been paid in recent years will be credited to future processing fees as appropriate.


"If you are an Accredited Supervisor:

"There is only one form to be completed for both categories of membership (Accredited Member and Accredited Supervisor).

"From 2016, your accreditation as an Accredited Member and an Accredited Supervisor will be renewed at the same time.

"The processing fee for the renewal of IACP Supervisor accreditation (including therapeutic accreditation) will be €30 per year in total.

"Any processing fee that has already been paid in recent years will be credited to future processing fees as appropriate."

Supervisors' Forum, Ennis, Co Clare, 26th September

A Supervisors' Forum will be held in the West County Hotel, Ennis, on 26th September from 10.30am to 3.30pm. 5 CPD hours. Facilitators: Christina Hogan & Tricia McGlacken Ryan

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Supervisors' Forum Dublin, 19th September on emotional regulation

"Emotional regulation and its role in Supervision" is the subject of the next IACP Supervisors' Forum in Dubin on 19th September, 10.30am to 3.30pm. Presented by Peter Sherry. Facilitators: Trish Farrell & Ann McDonald.

Venue: All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.

5 CPD hours

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Residence in Ireland no longer required by IACP for accreditation

In its latest newsletter, the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy says:

Please be advised that as of 31 March 2015, the requirement to be a resident and/or practising in the 32 counties of Ireland no longer applies.

 

For more information please contact the IACP Accreditation Department or visit our website: http://www.iacp.ie/first-time-accreditation

Counselling/Psychotherapy students can now combine courses for first-time accreditation, says IACP

As of June, 2015 courses done within a five-year period can be combined to make up a core course by students seeking first-time accreditation with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Here's the announcement from the IACP newsletter:

Please be advised that amendments have been made to the IACP criteria for First Time Accreditation regarding Combining Courses and Personal Therapy In Parallel With The Core Course.

“As of 12 June 2015 courses may be combined to make up a core course. These two courses must be completed within 5 years of each other.

If the IACP believes that the ethos promoted by the course or the course providers or their employees or agents as part of the course or as part of the environment surrounding the course is / are not compatible with the ethos promoted by the IACP, the IACP has a right to refuse accreditation to the applicant who has completed such a course. This is a discretionary right of the IACP.”

“Where the applicant has completed a course or combination of two courses, which meet the IACP Core Course criteria in all respects except for the inclusion of 50 hours of personal therapy, then personal therapy taken in parallel with the course with an accredited IACP therapist (or therapist accredited by an organisation acceptable to IACP), will be accepted.”

For more information please contact the Accreditation Department or visit our website: http://www.iacp.ie/first-time-accreditation

IACP still does not accredit Irish College of Humanities and Applied Science counselling/psychotherapy degrees

I notice that the degrees in counselling and psychotherapy offered by the Irish College of Humanities and Applied Science (previously known as the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Institute of Ireland) in Limerick are still not accredited by the IACP. The list of accredited courses is at the following link:

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No difference between counselling and psychotherapy, says IACP

In its latest position paper supporting statutory regulation of the profession, the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy asserts that no difference can be found between counselling and psychotherapy. An honours degree should be the minimum academic requirement for entry to counselling/psychotherapy it recommends.

The position paper can be found here:

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Fitness to Practise regime does not include counsellors and psychotherapists

Despite some media reports, the new fitness to practise regime announced by the Minister for Primary and Social Care, Kathleen Lynch TD, on 21st of January 2015, does not apply to counsellors and psychotherapists.

It applies only to those professions that are being regulated by Coru. Counsellors and psychotherapists are not even on the list for future regulation. How long it will take to get on the list and be regulated is anybody's guess - five years minimum, in my opinion, if it happens at all.

Coru - another body, like Tusla, with a meaningless name - is the state agency for regulating health and social care professionals.

Link to Minister's announcement
Link to CORU