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The Central Professional Foundation & Institute was primarily established for the evidence based research of client work and examination of the feedback in training courses that employ spirituality in counselling & psychotherapy from a professional perspective, we also care about students and tutors, so consider this a pastoral duty of care, to all involved.
Accountability, Accreditation, Qualification and Assessments and Regulation. We are able to offer Accreditation through research into the operations of Trainers and Training Courses in UK only. We are a not-for-profit Limited Company.
We rely on donations to operate these accreditation services and we charge a moderate fee to all training organisations to cover the work that we do.
REGISTRATION MEMBERSHIP FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS: We welcome all enquiries for accreditation of training courses and therapists seeking accredited training (in the UK only). We also encourage our members to eventually become fully Accredited Members of the CPFI.
Full Registered Membership is currently set at £79.99 per annum and Student Membership is set at only £29.99 per annum. ACCREDITATION: Please see Home page.
HIGH STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE REQUIRED:
Our Central Professional Foundation & Institute (CPFI) 'CTEC' Standards 'Convergence Technical Education Certification' levels. These Levels are set at an equivalency of the original NVQ National Vocational Standards in terms of levels of study.
Examples: Within corporate independent business training courses that are non regulated generally, we hold these levels to aid people understand the standards they are expected to work at, on the various training courses to give a yardstick by which to measure students, or graduates, anticipated performance levels at each stage.
CTEC Level-1 is Introduction. CTEC Level-2 is Improver. CTEC Level-3/4 and is Foundation Certificate. CTEC Level-4 is National Diploma Level. CTEC Level-5 is at Higher National Diploma. CTEC Level-6 is equivalent to a degree level or Advanced Diploma levels. CTEC Level-7 is usually aligned with Post Graduate degree work, such as PG CErtificate and PG Diploma or the Masters degree levels and CTEC Level-8 is Doctorate, Phd Level.
The standards or levels shown above are Vocational Qualifications and not university degrees. Howevere, these are recognised within the educational levels since the NVQ levels were established previously. Students will be working at a postgraduate level are given purely, so that any individual may understand the level at which they need to work at, to pass (graduate) the relevant courses we accredit and it is not our aim to validate these by Higher Education Authorities, or a University. This is purely for individuals to compare the two training routes. One is very academic university route and the other a more practical experiential training route. The levels of hands-on training are similar in some ways and yet we believe that our experiential approach is more practical and allows students to apply any knowledge they have acquired academically to be put into practice. We do not require university validation within this profession, even though some push for it, unless a person wishes to gain particular university Post Graduate, Masters, or Doctorate Qualifications. Some Master's courses are taught as Psychotherapy MSc (Master's of Science) and others are Ma's (Master's of Arts). Psychotherapy we promote to be seen as a science in understanding and an art in practice.
For Example:
The Accredited '2 Year Diploma' set at CTEC Level-4, is generally accepted as a basic counsellor qualification and will allow you to practice by passing the CPFI academic requirements and / or, applying to take the Accredited Register examinations / Tests, required to meet either CPFI / BACP / NCS / Other organisation regulation. You also have to meet industry standards regarding training of 485 hours of classroom work part-time and 100 supervised client hours, as well as 40 hours currently (this may need to be increased in future) of personal therapy requirements, to meet the criteria and it needs to be face-to-face classroom training, for at least 70% of the course class attended and up to 30% where there is tutor interaction online.
The Accredited 4 - Year Professional MASTERS Diploma is set at CTEC Level-6/7 which is first and second cycle in further education and is generally accepted throughout the profession as a valid standard of training where students need to be able to study at a post graduate level. This is to confirm students are working at psychotherapist level and not just counselling at an advanced level, namely because you have to complete 658 hours of classroom work part-time (including a foundation course at and diploma at Level-4) within the 4 year Level-7 Masters diploma. Also students will need to complete 150 hours of personal therapy and complete 650 hours of client work at an authorised placement facility under supervised, to pass at these levels.
Insurance Public Liability also validates client work with the general public, so we are convinced you are not impeded by status of any Higher Education Authorities.
We offer no guarantee that a person will be offered the opportunity to study further at University, but if the student is able to demonstrate the level of competance and ability to learn, most colleges, or universities will try to accomodate the serious student, in our experience. Particularly, if they are able to demonstrate they have completed experiential Diploma levels, gained on any of our accredited courses. There are no guarantees and the student will need to demonstrated they are able to study at the level required at any other Uni, or College.
Membership Roll:
The CPFI had also established a separate department developing and operating a Membership Roll specifically for its student and professional members and other professionals around the Country but this membership roll is now completed in-House by our voluntary staff in CPFI therefore the NRHPCSC has been discontinued for socio-economic reasons.
This membership facility and roll is primarily established for members of the Mental Health and caring professions only. The Roll is established through the CPFI and offers a Personal membership and Organisational membership affiliation with the CPFI and is open to students and qualified counselling professions in all other principal teaching establishments, and all recognised graduates and students in the counselling & psychotherapy field, etc. Students of other Colleges and Uni's are also invited to join as either trainee, or professional status, members.
There is a need to do in-house checks and balances. We also check and assess the hard copy, or digital records, bookwork methods and teaching styles, in keeping with higher education teaching requirements in today's financially driven and blame culture environment and modern expanding trends. This research is achieved via paperwork trails and there are subsequent research opportunities. There is a need to also fund our own administration costs and the minimal expenses of our executive staff and current or future volunteers, to support and offer this service.
Submissions and enquiries: Any request for details, of a member / student member, will need to be submitted in writing to the local office address and a waiting time of 28 days can be expected for a reply. Please be aware of this prior to any further attempt to contact us for more information, as this will not be forthcoming within this 28 day time period.
Offices are in Central & Southern England. This professional and pastoral Foundation will only accept written emailed correspondence due to the fact that it is manned by volunteers in the work that we do. in the field of research, in client work and any future attendance at any or various organisations, to assess training courses, at any given time we will attempt to offer the best service we can manage. Our work is always carried out to the highest standards of professional, business and moral ethics.
This Foundation & Institute is dedicated to offer research based training and accreditation to the Transpersonal, schools and specifically Convergence Spiritual & Psychotherapy Disciplines, Sciences and or Professions. We further determine to attempt to make training easier to access financially and personal therapy safer. We also offer accreditation to any institute that can demonstrate professionalism and work and training ethics to our normal high standards. Please ask for further details.
The CPFI is a professional and pastoral organisation that offers a separate Membership Roll of students and professionals to belong to as an initial validating and an online digitally assessed organisation to both validate services and offer inclusion with peers for regulating membership standards as an central office for the sake of further credibility.