National and International Recognition
Most professional discipline related certification is limited to the specific province or state. The Canadian Council of Professional Certification (CCPC), in contrast, has a charter granted by the federal government open to all Canadians regardless of where they reside. As well the CCPC charter explicitly permits international recognition of professionals working in other countries regardless of nationality. Since 1975, the CCPC offers a number of professional disciplines - Solution-Focused Therapist, Practitioner and Coach designations being one of the most recent. Based on the well established University of Toronto Solution-Focused Counselling program, the CCPC offers the first international certification in the solution-focused model with practitioners currently in the United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Become an Approved S-F Trainer
Interested S-F certificate holders are qualified to instruct the Basic Skills (12 hours of instruction) module in their specialty. This also means that these instructor can promote their training as approved by the CCPC; can issue 12 hours of CEU credits towards the CSF (T/P/C) as applicable and use the CCPC Approved logo stamp on print material.
The students of these workshops will be eligible to apply for advanced standing in one of the CCPC approved programs (e.g., University of Toronto Solution-Focused Counselling certificate program - http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/fswconted or Dr. Warner’s Solution-Focused Interviewing certificate program- http://www.solutionfocusedinterviewing.ca ). In fact certificate holders are encouraged to work towards gaining sufficient experience to develop and conduct their own 60 hour training program, and apply for official CCPC program approval.
Currently three training programs in Canada, and two internationally, have been granted CCPC program approval (see SF Approved Courses page for additional details). For further information about this option contact the Chief Examiner (dr.ron@cogeco.ca), or for an introduction to the solution-focused model, and the tri-phase approach, see a recent book he has written (In Canada: http://www.monsoonbooks.ca:80/books.html. In USA:
http://www.instabookpublisher.com/tienda/product_info.php/products_id/34..., and in the Far East: http://www.sf-academy.com).
Become an Approved S-F Supervisor / Consultant
The requirements:
• A minimum of two years of CCPC registration
• Approved course work related to supervision and training such as the Graduate Seminar module at the University of Toronto on April 25-26, 2008 (http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/fswconted , and also planned for April 24-25, in 2009.
• Apply to the Chief Examiner and request the provisional (one year) approval status
Become an Associate Examiner
Associate Examiners, in addition to providing supervision, are authorized to conduct the full 72 hour training program including the Clinical Case Presentation module. The requirements are as follows:
• A minimum of 5 years experience with the solution-focused model including experience being responsible for supervision of healthcare and/or other helping professionals.
• A minimum of four years of CCPC registration.
• Develop and offer a 60 hour solution-focused training program, and have the Chief Examiner conduct the Clinical Case Presentation module for candidates pursuing CCPC certification.
• Recommendation of the Examiner
The intention of the current Chief Examiner is to try to provide an opportunity for the Associate Examiners to be instructors in his University of Toronto Solution-Focused Counselling program.
For further information, contact our Chief Examiner:
Dr Ronald E Warner, C.Psych, CSFT
Email: dr.ron@cogeco.ca
Tel: (613) 548 8209
Approved S-F Trainers, Supervisors / Consultants and Associate Examiners
