Talk:Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs

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I suggest that there be added a section called "Controversies" to describe the conflict between CACREP and other entities concerned with accreditation and licensure, particularly over the issue of the CACREP-only legislation movement. Here is a draft I wrote. Reference URLs are included at the bottom - I know this is not finished wikipedia format for them.

Controversies

CACREP has been criticized by members of other professional organizations, such as the American Psychological Association and Coalition of Concerned Counselors, for actions CACREP has taken to attempt to impose various restrictions on agencies and providers. Specifically, they say CACREP has pushed to limit credentialing and licensing to graduates of CACREP programs at the levels of state and federal government. In Virginia, for example, CACREP drafted and proposed legislation to limit VA licensure to graduates of CACREP-accredited programs, a move critics say is unnecessary and potentially harmful by way of limiting the number of eligible counselors and programs in the area, as it would prevent graduates from other types of programs from being licensed to practice, such as Counseling Psychologists.

https://ct.counseling.org/2013/07/what-you-dont-know-could-hurt-your-practice-and-your-clients/ http://www.concernedcounselors.org/ http://townhall.virginia.gov/L/viewaction.cfm?actionid=4259

I believe this gets toward explaining a factual and real controversy that is in existence, and deserves to be included on this page. But I don't want to get into an editing war based on whether inclusion of this material is biased. Thoughts?

Aarondembe (talk) 02:56, 2 July 2017 (UTC)Aaron