Marie Cardinal-Picard is a registered member of the Career counsellors college (OCCOQ) in Quebec. She practice career counselling for over 10 years now and she has defended her thesis in October 2010. Her goal by doing a PhD is to contribute to the development of counselling and of counsellors and to the training of students. Her thesis examines career counsellors’ literacy practices in community center settings and the links between those practices and the therapeutic relationship. Also, she is actually a university lecturer, both at Université de Sherbrooke and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) in career counselling, but also in other courses related more about developing reflexive practices for career counselling. Marie also is project manager for the Guide d'évaluation en orientation (Assessment Guide in Career and Guidance Counselling) and the training related to it with the OCCOQ, tutor for distance competencies training for OCCOQ experienced candidates, referee for several publications, counselling supervisor at Université de Sherbrooke, member of the Centre d’étude et de recherche sur les transitions et l'apprentissage (CERTA) and speaker in several seminars. Last year, Marie Cardinal-Picard won the Counsellor Educators Dissemination Award and presented her work in Charlottetown. She is especially interested in helping to promote the development of counselling as a professional activity, but more closely in strengthening the links between research, training and practice in counselling.
Director's Report - November 2011
Quebec Francophone Director Report Picard-Marie Cardinal, Ph.D., OC November 2011
Bill 21 appears to be at the heart of the concerns of Quebec members of the CCPA who hope that their expertise will be recognized for the practice of psychotherapy in Quebec. Increase the number of members in the province remains a challenge in the context where professional orders play an important role in bringing together professionals in Quebec. A unique resource was created in Quebec, the Assessment Guide which provides guidance on general basis to oversee and expand the act to assess the situation of a person through a career and guidance process
Members
Membership is stable at 97, with 49 of them being CCC.
Nearly half are in Ottawa, the other half is in Montreal or Sherbrooke or in the suburbs of these cities
How many members of CCPA are also members of a professional order?
A list in alphabetical order would facilitate the monitoring of new members and cancellations.
Communications
Sending a letter to the members as new director
Contacts with members consisting mainly to answer questions about Bill 21 grandparenting
The main question: how to be accredited to psychotherapy?
My questions are:
Has CCPA done something in the past years so that members are part of the grandparenting?
If not, why?
Participation in and facilitation of minicolloque OCCOQ, where I talked about the CCPA
Contributions and Celebrations
In contact with the President and the Office of the OCCOQ to know the progress of enforcement Bill 21
E-mail to several university professors and professionals to encourage them to present a workshop at the national conference in Calgary
Concerns and challenges
How to reach potential members other than through professional orders?
How many people who can’t be members of an order may be eligible for the CCPA?
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Explanatory Bill 21 of the Act, its impact and the grandparenting
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