Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Counseling
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Professional Counseling [18 VAC 115 ‑ 20]
Action Requirement for CACREP accreditation for educational programs
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/14/2017
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5/23/17  10:24 am
Commenter: Cass Mitchell

I oppose
 

As a licensed LCPC in Maryland who graduated from a non accredited school, this worries me that my license is being threatened. I believe I have been of great service to my clients in my practice this bill makes is so my future as a clinician is threatened as well as the level of my practice is not as suffient as another program. I attendeded Bowie state university for my masters in counseling psychology. It is not an accredited school. However, it is primarily an African American school. In that school, as a white student, I was able to get an education and perspective from a person of color that no other acedemic reguation or  curriculum could teach me. I ask that you reconsider another way, perhaps CEUs or additional training or another regulation to help foster existing therapists into being just as professional as any other, and educational insitituations to not be second to another due to not having this standard. High Standardization does not always high job performance. Thank you

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