Professional Development
PCA Professional Development Chairperson:
Dr. Michelle Bruno
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
400 Penn Center Boulevard, Ninth Floor, Building #4
Pittsburgh PA 15235
mbruno@iup.edu
Monroeville Campus: 412-824-1999
Indiana Campus: 724-357-3405
The purpose of professional development is to serve PCA members and all professional counselors and marriage and family therapists by offering continuing education and the opportunity to earn contact hours towards recertification and license renewal through the PCA state conference and its divisions and chapters.
Application for Approval of Continuing Education Courses and Programs
Upcoming Continuing Education Workshops and Trainings
42nd Annual Conference, "Counseling in a Multicultural World"
Thank you to all of the PCA members who supported and attended our 42nd Annual Conference, "Counseling in a Multicultural World." Most CEU forms have been processed and mailed. If you do not receive yours by December 15, 2010, please contact Michelle Bruno at mbruno@iup.edu. Thank you!
Workshop Advertising Policies and Procedures
Workshop Advertising Form
Professional development (PD) is most active from September through May. The chair of professional development is responsible for gathering requests for approval of each workshop and the state conference for continuing education, issuing approval for each workshop/state conference, processing contact hours in person at the state conference or by mail for division/chapter workshops, and maintaining the records for current and prior years of PCA professional development. Please follow this link to view the process of continuing education.
To find out how to obtain contact hours from the Pennsylvania Counseling Association toward state licensure and/or board certification renewal, or, if you are a presenter, how to offer them through the PCA, click on the following link:
PCA Professional Development Forms:
PCA Contact Hours Form
PCA Request-for-Approval Form
PCA Evaluation Form
PCA Annual Conference: The annual PCA meeting provides an excellent opportunity to earn contact hours for state licensure and/or board certification renewal!
For Presenters at the PCA annual Conference or at other workshops
If you would like to count an educational session or workshop that you have given toward your own CEU requirement, the licensure board requires that an application be submitted, along with the payment of a fee, in advance of the presentation. The application and process can be found here.
Resources
PCA parent association American Counseling Association (ACA) makes available to professional counselors and practitioners of other mental health professions a wide variety of professional development resources, resources such as books, videos, and home-studies. One resource, in particular, is professional counseling's flagship journal, the Journal of Counseling & Development. Most of them meet continuing education unit (CEU) requirements for professional counseling state licensure and board certification, and in many cases, for the psychology and social work professions, as well.
To browse the ACA's extensive on-line resource catalogue, visit http://www.counseling.org/Publications/