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Governance Documents
The following are the five pillar documents which allow CCTNB to enforce our standards in the profession of counselling therapy.
Standards of Practice
Code of Ethics
Règlements administratifs
The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, CCPA has over many years of research created Standards of Practice that are regularly reviewed and updated. Upon the request of CCTNB we were granted the permission to use the Standards of practice as that or the College.
Rules
The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, CCPA has been a major supporter through, time, energy, expertise since the first days of the regulation agenda in Canada. Based on that Expert Consultation and advice at CCTNB’s first Board meeting a request was made to CCPA for permission to adopt their Code of Ethics as our Code of Ethics. Permission was granted and that permission includes all updates to the Code of Ethics as revisions and updates are made by CCPA.
Our CTNB By-Laws were drafted by our Legal representatives in 2017 with full consultation and involvement of the transition Board of the College. Those By-Laws were presented at the first College Board meeting for approval. Approval was by a unanimous vote. By-Laws form the structure and definitions that further refine elements of Bill 64 and CCTNB members must read, become familiar with, and follow the By-laws.
By-Laws, unlike the Act are under the care and control of the Board and the Board may, after due diligence, add or amend an existing by-Law. The new or amended By-Law comes into effect immediately and ratification or rejection of the By-law takes place by members at the AGM.
If changes are to be presented at the AGM as directed by the Act, section 5(3) “The Board shall at least thirty days before the next meeting of the members of the College submit all by-laws or amendments or repeal of any by-law made under section (1) to the members of the College and the members may, at that meeting by ordinary resolution confirm, reject or amend the by-laws, amend or repeal thereof.”
The Licensed Counselling Therapy Act
Rules are created by the Board and become part of the standard operating procedures for the effective administration of the college. Committees of the Board such as Complaints, Discipline, Fitness to Practice were drafted by our lawyers, to refine sections of the Act. Committees such as Registration and Supervision, beginning in June 2017 drafted and recommended processes and standards of practice that were adopted by The Board. These committees review their Rules and recommend revisions to the Board for formal discussion as an ongoing practice. Following discussion and due diligence, a motion is made, seconded and a vote called. Some motions, depending on the substance, are passed as Rules, such as changes made to the Registration and Supervision process, and some, such as our Communication Protocol, are passed as a motion and do not become a rule. The difference in a matter becoming a protocol or rule is based on legal advice.
“Bill 64 The Licensed Counselling Therapy Act 3rd session, 58th Legislature New Brunswick 6566 Elizabeth II. 2016-2017 was read for the first time on March 29th, 2017, and Proclaimed into Law, with the signature of the Lieutenant Governor on May 5, 2017.”
And so, with the stroke of a pen, Counselling Therapists moved from seeking regulation to an immediate focus on developing governance practices to meet the responsibilities of a Regulatory College.
Specifically, the second paragraph of Bill 64 The Licensing Counselling Therapy Act states that CCTNB has been Granted the authority to
“………advance and maintain the standard of counselling therapy in the Province, for governing and regulating members offering services to the public and providing for the welfare of the members of the public and the profession;”