Hello CASC Ontario Members

CASC and College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario Grandparenting Issues and Questions Raised by CASC Ontario Members, May 2014 Some Responses, June 2014

Hello CASC Ontario members, On June 16 you all should have received an email from CASC Ontario Council thanking you for participating in May in our survey of members, asking about experiences and needs in relation to grandparenting registration in the College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario (CRPO). Many of you commented on what you have used to support yourselves in registration and identified support that you would still appreciate finding. You also provided valuable feedback to the CASC ON Council about various issues. Thank you, each of you, for providing your input. Regarding the question about further supports you would need, 102 of you commented. A couple of us on the Council selected topics from your comments about which to make some responses. Please see our responses here. In sending this to you, we welcome your additional comments. You may also direct further questions to your regional representatives on the CASC ON Council. Members of the Council support each other in responding to questions.

Marvin Shank and Michael Chow, for CASC Ontario Council

RESPONSES

 Clinical pastoral identity in relationship with College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario – Further support needed to understand and interpret this: o In mid-June CASC ON Council posted on the CASC web page an article written by Bob Bond. You can find it on the CASC web page by clicking on “Profession”, then “College Development”, then “Ontario” (http://spiritualcare.ca/page.asp?ID=37). Then go to the article, “Clinical pastoral identity and College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.” Other College related documents are also located here. See especially: “Tips and Notes on completing your CRPO registration”. Additional documents about College are at this location of the CASC webpage. o Anyone pursuing registration must go to the College web page (http://www.crpo.ca). Their home page, lower down, you can read about getting started with grandparenting and about how to proceed with Jurisprudence, and find links to other aspects of grandparenting.

 Specific technical difficulties: If you run into a technical and specific difficulty while doing the registration form, you might try phoning the College office at 1-888 661-4801 or 416 862-4801.

 Jurisprudence process: orientation and getting started: Go to the College web page (http://www.crpo.ca). On the home page about half way down find introduction to Jurisprudence e-learning and links for pursuing this.

 Need for standardized statement about CASC training programs: Section 6 of the grandparenting application asks for a description of the “coherent education and training program”, using 150 words or less. There is also a place for entering hours of training and hours of direct client contact during the training program. o Hours: Back in October 2013 both CPE and PCE Teaching Supervisors in Ontario produced separate documents about the range of hours that programs devote to different aspects of training. Aspects of training in their documents follow the five categories of 1 the scoring chart outline for grandparenting into the College. Those two documents are on the CASC web page (Profession / College development / Ontario) (http://spiritualcare.ca/page.asp?ID=37). You can use these in differentiating direct client contact hours from all other training hours, as is required here in Section 6. o Description: We drafted the following description of CPE that you could use where asked to provide a program description with 150 or less. If using this for PCE the percentage of each category of training in relation to the whole should be modified to reflect the PCE Supervisors consensus document. Here is a description for CPE. Please notice italicised font in this paragraph. This is Marvin’s personal information, which you must delete or modify with your story. Do not simply copy and paste. Such personal information is useful in connecting program description with earlier grandparenting questions about quantity of training and certification.

“Within national standards of accreditation and led by certified teaching supervisors, programs are run in hospitals and other clinical contexts. The program is structured in units of 400 hours. (I had 6 units.) Typical units involve: intensive individual and group supervision in SEUS (30% of program); theory (10% of program); direct client contact (45% of program); and other professional activities (15% of program). Examples of Theory content includes: human development, personality theory, psychotherapy approaches, therapeutic listening, use of self, transference/counter-transference, psycho-social-spiritual assessment, theological reflection on human experience, ethics, multifaith and multi cultural integration with care giving, and interprofessional collaboration. (In addition to these units, I also had extensive training in supervision while I supervised students.) This led to my successful application for certification both as Teaching Supervisor and Specialist in Clinical Pastoral, within Canadian Association for Spiritual Care.”

 Need for standardized statement about SPE (either CPE or PCE) training in Safe and Effective Use of Self (SEUS): Section 8, part 1 of the registration application asks for description of training received (using less than 50 words). Here are some points about core training in SPE about SEUS: o Didactics on theory (transference, counter-transference, human developmental theory), o verbatims (reports and role play seminars), o individual and group supervision including Interpersonal Relationship Seminars(IPR), weekly reflection reports, written final evaluation that includes demonstration of competence of safe and effective use of self

 Students want help to understand if or when to pursue grandparenting while still in the midst of their training processes. Grandparenting has a prerequisite of 750 hours in the practice of psychotherapy (very broadly defined on the College web page) in the three years prior to application. This requirement that a person have current experience (called “currency”) will mean that people in training might need to pursue membership in the College through the regular path, rather than through grandparenting. Certainly there are other questions students have about entering the College. Hopefully Teaching Supervisors will increasingly be able to support students in regard to their questions about College.

You may direct further questions to your regional representatives on the CASC ON Council. Members of the Council support each other in responding to questions. 2