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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7/14/17  11:07 am
Commenter: Jay Caughron, Radford University

Strongly Opposed
 

Obtaining licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor is the standard of care, not a guild group seeking to bolster their own position. Their position is to improve the standing of programs run out of Education Departments and exclude counseling programs run out of Psychology Departments. It is immoral given the high degree of need for more LPCs in Virginia. Do not add an arbitrary addition to the high standards already represented but the LPC licensure. 

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