In CA, some of the CEs granted for different activities in the CPD model provided are ridiculous and oddly arbitrary.
ONE CE to attend a day-long conference that you’ll probably pay hundreds out of pocket for. Six CEs to teach a semester long psychology course…..that you would spend hundreds of hours on. Six CEs granted for serving an entire year in a professional psychology organization. Nine CEs to publish in a peer reviewed journal.
None of these even come close to meeting the 36 hour requirement, yet take a huge amount of time.
The CPD model benefits psychologists in academia most, who are already paid to teach, write grants, publish, and get their conferences completely paid for. In one fell swoop, their CEs are mostly covered by those activities without spending a single cent or more time than their daily job.
The model seems to penalize private practitioners who work a full schedule and don’t have the time to engage in those kinds of pursuits.
It’s maddening to be micromanaged to this degree and to create a model that clearly benefits some over others based on career track. To create a system in which one track’s paid job duties already meet CA requirements “just because” while another career track meets none at all is not a fair system, in my opinion.
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