Etiotropic
Trauma Management™
Trauma
Resolution Therapy™
(ETM
TRT)
Counselor, Associate Counselor, Manager and Counselor in Training Clarification
of Certification Information and Agreements
Pronouncement
and Agreement 2.0 (1st primary update since 1986)
This
is Pronouncement 2.0 dated July 31, 2009
Introduction
Competence and permission to administer ETM to
members of the public are provided through completion of the ETM Professional
Training School and compliance with the ETM Certification Agreement. It is
supported by this document updated in 2009. The School, ETM Certifying
Authority and the Agreement, together, are referred to as the ETM
Professional Training and Certification Program.
ETM Certification Clarification
Posted 7/31/2009
ETM TRT Certification does not give
permission to any person to administer TRT or any counseling service to any
one unless the respective state government authorizes that service to be
provided through its clinical provider licensing programs.M ETM Trainers Certify that
an individual has completed the ETM TRT professional training course. The ETM Certifying Authority certifies ETM
course graduates as Certified ETM TRT Counselors, Associate Counselors,
Managers, Counselors in Training and or Trainers. |
Since the ETM School's beginning in 1986, virtually all
ETM School qualifying graduates have elected ETM certification. Upon completing
the ETM School, these professionals have agreed that the rationales and
guidelines that underpin ETM certification are necessary for the ethical
transfer of proper authorizations to administer ETM to the public. Those
rationales and guidelines are explained in this section.
ETM certification serves 3 purposes. First, it provides
professionals with specific criteria and guidelines for the authorized
administration of ETM. Second, certification assures members of the public who
are seeking assistance via the ETM model that it will be delivered within a
reasonable standard, the same one that provided the motivation for the
referral. Third, the certification process meets natural responsibilities
shared by the authors of ETM and its administrators (ETM counselors, associate
counselors, managers and Licensed Trainers).
ETM's authors and their representatives, supervisor
trainers, are meeting their responsibilities to the model's end users, trauma
victims, by ensuring that ETM counselors, associate counselors, managers, and
Licensed Trainers receive the training necessary to administer ETM: its theory
is properly conveyed to and understood by the prospective ETM professional. The
administrator completes the shared responsibility (shared duty to the end user)
relationship by agreeing to comply with the criteria and guidelines for the
proper administration of ETM as delineated in the text, the ETM School, and in
accordance with the criteria and guidelines for the delivery of professional
services governed by the professional's primary licensing authority and
attending organizational management standards.
The method for consummating the arrangement between the
ETM author(s) and ETM counselors, managers, and Licensed Trainers is the ETM
Counselor (also manager and presenter) Certification Agreement. Consequently,
ETM Certification, as stipulated in the pertinent ETM (Counselor, Manager, or
Presenter) Certification/ (License for Trainers) Agreement, provides a
framework through which all parties involved in the ETM model's disseminations
can meet their ethical responsibilities to the public. With noted exceptions,
facilitation of ETM by non ETM certified professionals or individuals abrogate
this framework. Thus, facilitation by non ETM trained or certified
professionals or individuals is not, except under the
referenced special conditions, authorized by the ETM certifying authority.
Kinds of ETM certifications:
Certified ETM Counselor
The Certified ETM Counselor
designation provides recognition that an appropriately credentialed
professional has successfully completed the ETM Professional Training School
(including the online school and its beta version) and is in compliance with
the ETM Counselor Certification Agreement. An appropriately
credentialed professional, in this use meaning that the professional retains a
valid license, certification, or degree from a recognized authority, for
example, a state government or academic institution, to provide therapeutic
assistance to the public. Examples of an appropriately credentialed
professional include, but are not necessarily limited to, psychiatrists,
psychologists, MSWs (Masters in Social Work), licensed professional counselors,
chemical dependency counselors, some pastoral counselors (referring to those
who retain a publicly approved and granted license), and people with advanced
counseling degrees (where no government licensing authority prevails).
The Certified ETM Counselor designation authorizes professionals to administer,
within the parameters of the professional's own (primary) licensing or
certification authority, the ETM program. ETM Certification does not provide
the authority to participate in the delivery of psychotherapeutic services not
recognized or otherwise covered under or in the professional's primary
licensing program.
Certified ETM Associate
Counselor
The second ETM Certification
provides people who have a need to address or in other ways manage, or
participate in the management of, psychological trauma, as such management
falls within the purview of special organizational situations. "Special
organizational situations" refer to those situations where government
agencies, educational institutions, certain non profit (not referring to
churches) like community based agencies, organizations and medically-based
(hospital) programs require an employee to function as a participant in the
management of trauma-causing events or people affected by such events, and with regards to ETM TRT in a training
role. Examples of organizations that meet the "special situations"
criteria include, but are not limited to shelters and halfway houses for
children / adolescents, battered spouses, and other similarly affected people.
Other examples of people qualifying for the Associate ETM Counselor designation
include, but also are not limited to, emergency medical services,
administrative, nursing, school counselors, teaching and law enforcement
personnel. The Associate ETM certification is valid only within the context of
that, or similar, employment. The certification does not transfer to private
practice, unless proper credentialing or special permission from the ETM
Certifying Authority is otherwise attained.
Criteria / Limitations /
Upgrades: Associate ETM Counselor
The Associate ETM Counselor
certification is subject to the following limitations and criteria for the
administration of the ETM program:
Certified ETM Manager
The ETM manager certification
recognizes that a professional (not necessarily clinical) has completed the ETM
School and agrees to apply, where organizationally appropriate, the approach to
organizational management process and in a manner commensurate with the ethical
and professional training guidelines governing the particular organization's
operations. Examples of professionals who qualify for the ETM manager
certification include school principals and administrators, school district
superintendents, school counselors, emergency medical, fire and police chiefs,
military officers, hospital/treatment facility administrators and hospital
marketing personnel, and government agency supervisors and managers.
Licensed ETM Trainer (no
further trainer licenses are available at this time in 2009)
The ETM Trainer license
recognizes that an individual has successfully completed the ETM Trainer
training process and is authorized to present the ETM School to the group of
professionals designated (to receive ETM training) by the related ETM Training
Module Agreement and in accordance with that agreement.
The ETM Licensed Trainer is authorized to provide ETM professional supervision
to ETM Counselors, Associate Counselors, Managers and Presenters.
Students and Counselor-in-Training
A student and
counselor-in-training (CIT) may attend the ETM School and acquire both the
cognitive and experiential aspects of the theory for the purpose of eventually
becoming an ETM certified clinician: the student or CIT may pass the exam and
participate successfully in the experiential component of the curriculum. The
CIT may receive a certificate noting completion of the school.
There are, however, some prospective differences for this participant's
training and eventual certification from the training of licensed clinicians.
For example, a licensed professional or person employed in a special position that
requires an understanding of experiential forms of therapy is assumed by an ETM
School Presenter to be thoroughly trained in such experientially-based models;
the student or CIT, however, may or may not be so trained. Thus, the Presenter
conducts this special training (for students and CITs) with an eye toward
conveying some of the additional information that often accompanies such
facilitation exercises; both the student and the CIT require more attention
from a Presenter than is otherwise administered by the ETM School to other
participants: the additional training is a function of the relationship between
the Presenter and the student and is outside of the training scope of the
standard ETM curriculum.
Accepting such a training relationship is the responsibility, choice, of the
Presenter. We recommend that the student complete a prerequisite in grief
resolution or client centered therapy, or have considerable practical
experience in the use of these therapies before attending the ETM School. Regardless
of whether the student or CIT successfully completes the ETM School, neither
the student nor CIT qualify for associate ETM certification status unless the
particular student or CIT is employed in a professional position that requires
the special certification. The student or CIT may, however, upon the eventual
attainment of a particular professional license or upon gaining pertinent
employment recognized as appropriate ETM TRT on the job training by the ETM
Certifying Authority, qualify for and be accorded either ETM Counselor
Certification or associate certification, depending on the license attained or
employment gained.
Clinical
Certification Disclaimer
ETM certification does not
provide permission to non credentialed / non professional people to administer
the clinical component (TRT) of ETM to the public. Specifically, ETM
certification does not provide authorization to any individual who is not
properly trained and licensed generally as counselor to engage in the business
of providing psychotherapeutic or other professional therapy services, to
include providing those services in private practice settings.
ETM Certifying Authority
The certifying authority for the
ETM certification program evolves from the precedent established through the
program's historical existence and a natural need to ensure that professionals
who administer ETM are properly trained and functioning in agreement with the
guidelines for that administration as set forth in that program. Jesse Collins
(and Craig Carson in his absence), by virtue of his (1) creation of the ETM
model, (2) uncontested superior knowledge of the model’s functionings whereby
that knowledge was gained as the model’s developer with his wife over 7 years
in its highly credentialed clinical treatment settings, and its implementation
of its strategic application in its numerous organizational management
environments for initially 15 years, and then from staffing and supervision of
clinical and strategic management issues for a full 30 years (by 2009), (3)
rights and responsibilities as set forth in the ownership of the intellectual
properties referenced in the ETM Tutorial and as attends copyright law, and (4)
are the determiners of what constitutes being "properly trained" and
administrative "guidelines." Any person designated by the author(s)
as a Licensed ETM Trainer has the author's permissions to professionally convey
ETM theory to other clinicians / managers and to recommend for ETM certification
by the ETM Certifying Authority qualified professionals as ETM Counselors,
Associate Counselors or Managers.
The ETM Certifying Authority may
change or discontinue the ETM training and certification program as determined
by that authority.
ETM TRT Counselor, Associate, Manager
and Counselor in Training Certification Agreement
2.0
ETM certification is subject
to this (following) agreement as it is attended by Pronouncement 2.0.
Upon successful completion of the ETM TRT School, the Certified ETM Counselor, Associate
Counselor, Manager, or Counselor in Training agrees to:
ETM TRT certification does not
provide permission to non credentialed / non government authorized professional
people to administer the clinical component (TRT) of ETM to the public.
Specifically, ETM certification does not provide authorization to any
individual who is not properly trained and licensed by state or other
government authority to engage in the business of providing psychotherapeutic
or other professional therapy services, including TRT, and to also mean providing
those services in private practice or any agency settings, non profit or
otherwise.
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Counselor Signature
Acronym for Basic Credentials Date
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Representing the ETM Certifying
Authority Date