Regulated health professions holds its members to standards such as education, safety standards and a code of ethics, and any behaviour that violates those can be investigated.
Disgraced Grande Prairie doctor’s move to offer therapy reignites calls for counselling oversight body in Alberta
“Counsellors play an important part in our mental health care system and regulating them under the College of Alberta Psychologists will add consistent standards that will protect patients and improve care,” Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Dan Williams said. “Recognizing the importance of mental health services in Alberta, I’m pleased to see government bringing in regulation for this profession,” Nicole Imgrund, ACTA board chair, said in a statement.
CAP said making counsellors a regulated profession will help “maintain the integrity and quality of mental health care” in the province.
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