CPA Accreditation Panel

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• CPA Accreditation Panel
• Accreditation Standards and Procedures Revisions
• Highlights

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Revision Objectives

• Inclusion of School Psychology
• Remove redundancies
• Improve clarity
• Respond to current and emergent issues (e.g.
  privacy guidelines, distance education)
• Alignment of accreditation and practice standards
  

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Standard I - Eligibility

• Former standards I (Institution) and II
  (Administration) are integrated
• Eligibility continues to require The clinical,
  counselling or school psychology programme is
  housed and operated by a Canadian provincially or
  territorially chartered university.
• Programmes abide by April 15th deadline for
  students to accept an offer of programme
  admission and/or financial support as stated in
  CPAs Graduate Guide.

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Standard II Philosophy, Mission and Curriculum

• Mapping of MRA Competencies onto Standards
• Foundations of Professional Psychology now also
  includes criterion on Interpersonal Relationships
  (e.g. therapeutic relationships, therapeutic
  alliance and professional rapport, self knowledge
  and the impact of therapist characteristics on
  professional relationships, effective
  communication)
• Programmes act in accordance with relevant
  federal and provincial privacy legislation.

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Standard III Diversity

• Diversity and related accommodation are given the
  same importance as any other facility or resource
  needed by the programme to meet its goals.

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Standards IV and V Faculty/Staff and
Students/Interns

• Consideration of timely completion and work-life
  balance applied to both doctoral and internship
  programs

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Standard VIII Practicum and Internship

• Articulation of practicum experience
• Definition of direct and indirect practice
  activities
• Definition of supervision (individual and group)
• Consistency of definitions between practicum and
  internship

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Standard VIII Practicum and Internship

• Minimum of 600 supervised hours of
  service-related activities to patients/clients.
• 50 of this supervised experience is Direct,
  face-to-face patient/client contact
  (interviewing, assessing, or intervening with
  clients).

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Standard VIII Practicum and Internship continued

• 50 Indirect service is in clinically-relevant in
  support of the direct service (e.g., progress and
  process notes,report writing, case treatment
  planning, consultation, session review,
  supervision, case presentations, case-relevant
  literature reviews, rounds, case conferences,
  learning new psychological measures and/or
  interventions/treatments and professional
  development/continuing education that supports
  specific patient/client care).

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Indirect Service

• supervision
• progress and process notes
• report writing
• case treatment planning
• consultation
• session review
• case presentations

• case-relevant literature reviews
• rounds
• case conferences
• learning new measures and/or interventions
• professional development/continuing education
  specific to patient/client care

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Standard VIII Practicum and Internship

• Supervision must account for 50 of indirect
  service.
• 75 of the supervision provided will be
  individual supervision (now 3 rather 4 hours of
  individual supervision)
• 25 of the supervision provided can be group
  supervision

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Individual Supervision

• can occur in either of 2 formats
• between the supervisor and supervisee as the only
  participants, or
• in a group format among a number of supervisors
  and supervisees. However, individual supervision
  only occurs in a group format if it is structured
  such that each student has a designated and
  regular amount of time to present his or her
  case(s).

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Group Supervision

• defined as activities or meetings in which
• students participate in the supervision of
  psychological service received by another intern
  or trainee
• some combination of interns and supervisors meet
  to review or discuss some method or technique of
  psychological service delivery, particular
  problems or disorders, or a professional or
  ethical issue affecting practice.

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Internship

• 4 hours of weekly supervision
• 3 hours of individual as defined above
• 1 hour of group supervision
• Supervisors
• Professional Psychologists Registered
• Doctoral level
• Competent in the area

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Procedures

• Updated to address changes in concurrent CPA/APA
  accreditation (eg. Separate decisions and
  different terms)
• Communication with the Panel
• Submission of annual reports
• Clarification of deadlines and penalties
• Panel membership and Board liaison

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Process for the 5th Revision

• Suggested revisions received at conversation
  sessions at the past 3 Conventions--done
• Revision draft completed -- January 2009--done
• Panel review -- April 2009--done
• Web-based consultation from June 30 to February
  15, 2009--ongoing
• Final draft reviewed for April 2010 Panel Meeting
• Board approval June 2010
• Translation Fall 2010
• Release for Toronto Convention -- June 2011
• Implementation 2011-12 academic year