SPIRITUAL CARE PSYCHOSPIRITUAL THERAPY CRPO CASC ON Networking

SPIRITUAL CARE/ PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL THERAPY & CRPO CASC ON Networking Day Wednesday October 4, 2017 Angela Schmidt & Pam Mc. Carroll

Scopes of Practice & Competencies – Spiritual Care/Psycho-spiritual therapy Same 10 CASC competencies, similar and overlapping scopes of practice reflecting similar theory base and different contexts of care. • “Spiritual care Practitioner” • “Psycho-spiritual Therapist”

Scope of practice - Psychotherapy • See 5 CRPO Competencies • The practice of psychotherapy is the assessment and treatment of cognitive, emotional or behavioural disturbances by psychotherapeutic means, delivered through a therapeutic relationship based primarily on verbal or nonverbal communication. See Psychotherapy Act, 2007, section 3.

CASC and CRPO Competencies, Scopes of Practice • 10 CASC Competencies • 5 CRPO Competencies Except for some slight areas of difference these sets of competencies and scopes of practice can be considered as parallel and/or highly overlapping. The issue of language is key. - E. g. “treatment” vs “interventions, ” “care planning”

Controlled Act of Psychotherapy 1. (Assessing and) Treating 2. By means of psychotherapy technique 3. Delivered through a therapeutic relationship 4. An individual’s serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory That may seriously impair 5. The individual’s judgment, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning

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Exceptions & Distinctions Exceptions • Helping someone in an emergency • Helping someone with the activities of daily living • Treating by prayer or spiritual means according to the tenets of one’s religion Distinctions • “The practice of psychotherapy is distinct from both counselling, where the focus is on the provision of information, advice-giving, encouragement and instruction, and spiritual counselling, which is counselling related to religion or faith-based beliefs. ” HPRAC: New Directions, 2006; Chapter 7, Regulation of Psychotherapy, p. 208. The College is not regulating counsellors or counselling. However, psychotherapy and counselling can be highly interrelated.

CASC Members and CRPO • Who can join? • Those work can be considered to fall within the scope of practice of “psychotherapy” as defined by CRPO. • Who must join? Those who wish to use the title “psychotherapist”. • Those work includes the controlled act of psychotherapy. Ie. Some CASC members • • You Decide • Self regulating College, therefore it is up to members/potential members to discern where their practice falls and to decide. • Whether or not one is in the CRPO, one only practises within the field that one is trained in.

Acuity & Competence COMPETENCE • ACUITY

‘Spiritual Care Therapy’ (SC & PST) includes Psychotherapy • Model 1 Spiritual Care Therapy includes psychotherapy as part of its scope of practice Psychotherapy Cont Act Psych

Spiritual Care Therapy (SC & PST) is a modality of Psychotherapy • Model 2 Spiritual Care Therapy is a modality of Psychotherapy Cont Act of Psych

Spiritual Care, Psycho-spiritual Therapy and Psychotherapy • Model 3 Psycho-spiritual therapy is Psychotherapy Cont. Act of Psycho therapy Only some Spiritual care is Psychotherapy and includes the Act Cont. Act of Psycho therapy

Benefits and Detriments Benefits Detriments

Acuity + Competence 4. 5 4 Acuity 3. 5 3 2. 5 2 1. 5 1 1 2 3 Competence 4