Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Qualification
Advanced Clinical Practice qualification (ACP) is for any clinical professional seeking to extend their thinking and enhance their clinical skills. Psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors and others in the helping professions gain the capacity to understand and work with difficult and complex psychodynamics.
The training is provided via supervision with a Training Supervisor who guides the candidate through readings, seminars and concurrent trainings, as well as providing intensive supervision. There is an initial panel to determine suitability, and passing this panel grants Provisional Membership of APANZ and Interim Registration as a psychotherapist. The training culminates in assessment of written work, and a panel assessment, leading to membership of APANZ and entitlement to seek full registration as a psychotherapist.
The process is guided by the developmental needs of the individual candidate and may take up to five years.
This process is designed to develop professional competence and depth to the standard ordinarily demonstrated by a psychotherapy graduate with five years’ post-qualification experience. The ACP is recognised by PBANZ as equivalent to a Master’s Degree.
Further details of the process can be seen on the ACP Flowchart (PDF) and in more detail in the ACP Handbook below. If you interested in applying, please contact the Administrator for more information.
Further documents:
Dates for written and oral assessments 2024—2025 (PDF)
Assessment Policy and Procedures (PDF)
ACP reading resource list (PDF)
Supervision contracts:
Initial supervisor’s contract with ACP Committee (Word)
Initial Training Contract between an ACP Candidate and their Training Supervisor (Word)
Annual Training Contract Between an ACP Candidate and their Training Supervisor (Word)
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