COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUALIFICATIONS BOARD QUALIFICATION IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY APPLICATION

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Board of Examiners for the Qualification in Counselling Psychology

Counselling Psychology Qualifications Board

Qualification in Counselling Psychology

Application for Accreditation of

Existing Competence (AEC)

1. Trainee

Name of Candidate:
Membership number:

2. Co-ordinating Supervisor

Name of Co-ordinating Supervisor:
Society Membership Number:
HCPC Registration Number:
Current work/post:
Experience in training or mentoring:

Documentary Evidence Units

Core Therapy Training

Please give details of any core therapy training you have undertaken. This must be a course of training at postgraduate level in counselling psychology, counselling or psychotherapy of at least 350 hours, verified by the CS. Please enclose appropriate supporting evidence including a copy of the course certificate and transcript verified by your CS who must have seen the original document.

	Completed course details
Course title
Institution/ provider
Core staff and their qualifications
Level (e.g. not rated, FE, HE level 1, 2, 3, M, D)
Start & finish dates of course
Contact hours (this is university contact hours only, not self-study or practice hours)
Model of therapy taught
Practice/ client contact hours required by course
Required supervision ratio
Brief description of course content. Please provide further details, such as extracts from the course syllabus, in your evidence portfolio.
Page reference for evidence in portfolio (e.g. certificate, transcript)

Secondary Model Training

Please give details of training you have undertaken in your secondary therapeutic model. This must cover development of a knowledge, understanding and application of a different model of therapy from your Core Therapy Training, comprising at least 150 hours. A series of short courses will not be accepted. The course must be a distinct and separate course from your Core Therapy Training course. Please enclose appropriate supporting evidence including a copy of the course certificate and transcript verified by your CS who must have seen the original.

	Completed course details
Course title
Institution/ provider
Core staff and their qualifications
Course dates
Contact hours (this is university contact hours only, not self-study or practice hours)
Model of therapy taught
Brief description of course content. Please provide further details, such as extracts from the course syllabus, in your evidence portfolio.
Page reference for evidence in portfolio (e.g. certificate, transcript)

Practice Logs, Practice Reports and Supervision Log

Please give details of supervised practice you have undertaken. The maximum AEC that can be awarded for this unit is 300 hours. You should provide all of the following supporting evidence: client summary sheets, practice logs, supervision log and the corresponding supervisor’s reports for each placement. You can use the forms on the QCoP Downloads web page if this is helpful. It is recognised that for the purposes of AEC only, you may not be able to fully complete the content of session details where this relates to previously completed placements.

	Placement 1	Placement 2	Placement 3	Placement 4
Practice: Service provider and location
Dates from and to:
Clients worked with: Brief description of client group and range
Therapeutic Approach/ Model
Number of hours claimed (client contact)
Ratio of supervision to client contact time (must be at least 1:8)
Name, qualifications and registration/ accreditation of supervisor. (e.g. BACP accredited, BABCP registered)

Please make copies of this page if you need to provide additional information.

Personal Therapy

If you have already completed a period of personal therapy with an appropriate counselling psychologist, or an accredited counsellor or psychotherapist, you may apply for AEC. AEC for personal therapy can be claimed in blocks of not less than 10 hours. The maximum AEC that can be requested for this unit in total is 20 hours. For each period of therapy claimed you must provide evidence, such as a signed certificate from your therapist, in your portfolio of evidence.

	Block 1	Block 2
Name of therapist
Professional qualifications of therapist
Professional body / registration council by whom therapist was accredited/ registered at the time of therapy (e.g. BACP accredited, BABCP registered)
Number of hours
Dates (from/ to)
Page reference for evidence in portfolio

Assessment Units

Essay about a critical incident or point of change in therapeutic work with a client assessed at M level (no more than 3000 words)

If you have completed an equivalent piece of work as part of your formal training in counselling psychology then please provide details here. You should provide a copy of the certificate from the course signed by your CS who must have seen the original, a transcript of your results, the feedback sheets for the piece of work and the piece of work itself.

An AEC application for this unit requires you to complete the Competence Tracker indicating which competences you feel are illustrated in this assessment and where. You will need to detail where in the piece of work the Registrar will find the evidence of this competence, for example paragraph 3 on page 10.

Title of piece of work
Nature of work (e.g. essay, report)
How work was assessed (e.g. examined as part of coursework)
Brief summary of content
Word count for piece of work
Qualification & Awarding Body and date awarded
Page reference for evidence

A case study of a piece of completed therapeutic work with a client assessed at M level (no more than 3000 words)

Title of piece of work
Nature of work (e.g. case study, presentation)
How work was assessed (e.g. examined as part of coursework)
Brief summary of content
Word count for piece of work
Qualification & Awarding Body and date awarded
Page reference for evidence

Academic paper which examines the meaning and implications of anti-discriminatory practice assessed at M level (no more than 3000 words)

Title of piece of work
Nature of work (e.g. essay, report, academic paper)
How work was assessed (e.g. examined as part of coursework)
Brief summary of content
Word count for piece of work
Qualification & Awarding Body and date awarded
Page reference for evidence

Research Portfolio

Please provide details on this page of any dissertation or thesis (minimum 12000 words) you have written on any empirical research work relevant to counselling psychology practice, you have undertaken as part of your training. Make sure that you include information about what you did, how you did it, what you expected to find, what you actually found, and what you think your findings mean to counselling psychologists.

You should provide a copy of the certificate from the course signed by your CS who must have seen the original, a transcript of your results, the feedback sheets for the piece of work and the dissertation/thesis itself.

Qualification e.g. MSc, PhD, Doctorate in Counselling. Please give the title as it appears on your degree certificate.
Awarding Body and date awarded e.g. University of Surrey
Nature of piece of work e.g. thesis, published article.
Word count
Summary of research
Page reference for evidence

CS declaration: I have checked the word count stated above and can confirm its accuracy.

Signature:____________________________________________________________

Applicant’s Declaration

I certify that the facts stated on this form are correct:

Signature of Applicant:

Date:

Agreement of Co-ordinating Supervisor

I confirm that I have reviewed this application and discussed it with the above named applicant.

Signature of Co-ordinating Supervisor:

Date:

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