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- A: The BACP describes the CoP as ‘a standardised assessment of the skills, knowledge and abilities required to be a professional counsellor or psychotherapist’. It aims to ensure that all BACP registered members have ‘the minimum level of competence that clients have a right to expect’ (n.d.a, paragraph 1).
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Q: What is the BACP Certificate of Proficiency (CoP)? A: The BACP describes the CoP as ‘a standardised assessment of the skills, knowledge and abilities required to be a professional counsellor or psychotherapist’.
However, the term describes two types of qualifications: (a) generic assessment knowledge and skills neces-sary for typical uses of tests and (b) specific qualification for the responsible use of tests in specific settings and for specific purposes (APA, 2001).
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proficiency in Assessment and Treatment of Serious Mental Illness is primarily concerned with assisting individuals experiencing SMI throughout the life span to regain functional capacity and live satisfying lives in the community, regardless of their age.
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Mar 10, 2011 · Part One – Therapy Quality and Therapist Competence Why therapist competence is important. There are at least three reasons why therapists’ ability to deliver psychological treatments is important. The first relates to the responsibility of all clinicians to provide their patients with the best possible care or treatment.
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Summary. Vocational assessment includes tests designed to measure work-related characteristics, such as interests, values, personality, skills, abilities, and self-efficacy. Vocational assessment is typically conducted to provide information for the client in the context of individual career counseling or other career intervention, but also may ...
Testing and assessment have long been and continue to be regarded as important roles of counseling psychologists. This issue of The Counseling Psychologist considers several contemporary developments and issues in the testing and assessment areas and their relevance for the counseling specialty.
Nov 1, 2017 · Within the flagship journal of counseling, Journal of Counseling & Development, over half (60%) of assessments used lacked validity information (Wester, Borders, Boul, & Horton, Citation 2013), bringing into question the quality and appropriateness of the assessments and the interpretation of the scores. To use underdeveloped, and potentially ...
