Continuing Professional Development & Practicing Certificates
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a requirement of ANZAPT membership and a requirement for renewing the ANZAPT Annual Practicing Certificate (APC).
Each year, each of ANZAPT’s key guiding documents will be drawn on for the purposes of self-monitoring and continuing professional development. Guiding Documents for CPD: Code of Ethics, Cultural Competencies & Core Clinical and CCPT Competencies
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Continuing Professional Development
Get started planning and implementing your CPD with ANZAPT
ANZAPT requirements for CPD
Show clearly how you have planned, actioned, and evaluated your development needs
Keep an up-to-date and accurate record of planned CPD activities
Record a range of CPD activities relevant to current or future practice
Reflect and indicate how this will have an impact in your practice
Submit your CPD record annually on membership renewal and keep your own record for audit on request
How Do I Identify My CPD Needs?
Identify any gaps in your knowledge or additional skills that will help improve your practice. Discuss your CPD plan in supervision. Appraisals, if you have them, are also a useful opportunity to discuss your CPD needs.
How much CPD should I have?
The focus should be on outcomes, or what you have gained from your CPD, to benefit your clients/ability to carry out your Play Therapy role. 20 hours is the required annual minimum. Read more...
What counts as CPD?
Any activities that have an impact on your current or future professional practice can be included. You can include a mixture of learning activities in your record, or focus on a specific type of activity if that is most appropriate for you. Read more….
How should I record CPD?
For your ANZAPT membership, it's essential you complete your CPD records as required. You can plan and record using the word document, provided, based on the exemplar provided. Read more..
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Apply For Recertification
Once you have completed your CPD form, please submit this via the google form link below. This link will be open for submissions from July 1st - August 31st.
If you need assistance with this please contact our membership officer
"Any learning experience that can be used for the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of competence, knowledge and skills to ensure that the practitioner has the capacity to practise safely, effectively and legally within their evolving scope of practice. It may include both personal and professional development."
Definition of CPD"We see CPD as a cyclical process based on reflection and identification of your learning needs, planning and prioritising, action, and evaluation. Usually, this will begin with a reflection on development needs, but sometimes learning occurs unexpectedly at another point in the cycle. This can also be recorded as CPD."