Announcements For Recently Certified Psychodramatists

[Peter Howie]

Dear Dale,

I imagine these are hard learned lessons?

Timing of these announcements follows a report of an examination  
process which follows the conclusion of an examination process which  
follows the conclusion of an examination which follow the acceptance  
of an application to undertake an examination which happens after all  
the training has been done. In project management theory we might talk  
about slippage between steps in the plan. I remember sending back a re- 
write of my thesis and it not having made it to the thesis examiners  
(this is early computer days when the printed form still ruled - 12  
years ago) and I happily popped along to our annual conference  
confident in what I had done. When I found it was not received I had  
my partner email a copy remotely (I gave her instructions from memory  
about both how to access a PC (she was an apple person) and where to  
send it. The thesis examiners were willing to read and confirm I had  
met the requirements (which were largely turning the conclusion back  
into a conclusion, and reducing the recommendations for further  
research to one rather than zillions, and I made it.

People often ask me if I have finished my PhD. I haven't finished my  
Masters which is planned to be articulated into a PhD. Mind you I  
started in 2004. But I am still at it. But there is that momentary  
sense of "Yes many people would have finished this by now.....  
oops ...... where is my credibility?" And I am still at it. Valiently  
trying to define philosophically the concept of "deep learning" which  
currently has no technical meaning. Actually the idea of there being  
more than learning or not learning is pretty popular and common so I  
am having fun.

Cheers

Peter


On 02/02/2010, at 5:59 AM, ABE Psychodrama wrote:

> Dear All,
>
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> This is to clarify the announcements of recently certified  
> psychodramatists.  The Board does not publish a list of recently  
> certified psychodramatists.  If names appear in the ASGPP newsletter  
> or on grouptalk it is because someone other than the Board provided  
> those names.
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> For further information you can read our “Confidentially Policy”  
> under the subject The Written Examinations at our website (www.psychodramacertification.org 
> ).
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> While the Board can publish such a list, we have not.  The issue of  
> publicly announcing all the names of recently certified  
> psychodramatists is complicated.  There is one deadline for sending  
> out letters of the results on the written examination (and that  
> deadline changes each year).  However, persons schedule their on- 
> sites at various time of the year.  For example one person who  
> passed the TEP written examination last year still has not scheduled  
> an on-site examination.  Please leave them alone and allow them to  
> complete the process when they are ready.
>
>
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> Furthermore, some folks may fail a written examination and some  
> folks may fail an on-site examination.  In the past it has been very  
> embarrassing to them for folks to say, with good intention, “Hey how  
> come you have not announced that you were certified?”
>
>
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> I have attended meetings of the ASGPP when all new TEPs and CPs are  
> asked to stand, and a person or two has stood up in that large  
> meeting and yet at that time they were not certified.  I have not  
> said anything because I can understand how “humiliating” it would be  
> not to stand in front of all your peers.
>
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> The Board Newsletter does offer all new CPs and TEPs an opportunity  
> to include a bio and photo in our newsletter.  About one third of  
> all recently certified folks actually do this and two-thirds do not.
>
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> In conclusion, I would continue to encourage all those who have  
> passed to tell their peers and the community so we can celebrate  
> their magnificent accomplishment.  I would also encourage all of you  
> who are close colleagues and friends to contact folks directly and  
> inquire about their certification.   For the rest of us, I would ask  
> that we be patient and let folks share the good news when, and if,  
> they want to share good news with us.
>
>
> Dale Richard Buchanan, Ph.D., T.E.P.
> Executive Director, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama,
> Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
> 202-483-0514
> abepsychodrama at yahoo.com
> www.psychodramacertification.org
>
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