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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

What is CPD and why is it important?

CPD refers to the ongoing process of maintaining and enhancing skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your educcational therapy career. It involves tracking and documenting learning activities, both formal and informal, to ensure continuous improvement and development. It is crucial for keeping professional educational therapists up-to-date with the latest industry standards and practices. CPD helps build confidence and credibility, as professional educational therapists who are committed to their development are often viewed as more competent and reliable. 

As a professional educational therapist, you are required to undertake a minimum number of CPD hours each year and record its completion. For an activity to count towards CPD requirements, you will need to show how it is relevant to your role and has helped you to meet your learning needs.

CPD For Educational Therapists

CPD requirements for Fellow, Professional and Associate Educational Therapists are as follows:

  • A minimum 10 verifiable hours of CPD is required annually
  • At least 1 CPD hour must be on ethics
  • 3 CPD hours is recognised for publishing an article as the first author on a peer-reviewed journal
  • 1 CPD hour is recognised for peer reviewing an article published on a peer-reviewed journal
  • Members must declare that CPD hours have been fulfilled for the 12 months preceding their membership renewal date
  • The Association may perform CPD compliance through an audit of randomly selected members.*  Members must provide documentation of their 10 CPD hours when requested by the Membershjp Committee
  • Educational Therapists must retain their own documentation of completed qualifying activities

Examples of Verifiable CPD Activities (Ensure Relevancy)

  • Attendance or participation in conferences, webinars, seminars, talks, e-learning, training or workshops (synchronous or asynchronous)
  • Supervision of an associate member working toward the Professional Educational Therapists tier of membership or supervision of a student member in an AETS approved training programme
  • Studying for other post-qualification programmes relevant to the field of educational therapy
  • Preparing for and sitting for professional examinations related to the field of educational therapy
  • Writing and publishing articles and papers as the first author on peer-reviewed journals, books on topics or themes related to the field of educational therapy
  • Peer review of articles and papers of peer-reviewed journals
  • Attendance or participation in study group meetings ‘live’ or virtually
  • Participation in professional journal or book discussion groups ‘live’ or virtually 

Please download, complete and submit the CPD Log Form during your membership renewal.

CPD Log Form

Acceptable Documents to support Verifiable CPD Activities

  • Certificate of attendance
  • Attendance tracking document issued by training organisation
  • Letter of attendance issued by employer or training organisation
  • Registration form or payment receipt
  • Notes recorded by the attendee, a summary, or a statement of implementation (how the content applies to the attendee’s professional practice)
  • Invoice or receipts of course purchased / registered
  • Published articles in a peer-reviewed  journal

*  Members chosen for audit will be notified within 30 days following their membership renewal date and requested to provide Acceptable Documents of participation to support Verifiable CPD activities attended during the 12 months prior to renewal. The deadline for submitting requested documentation is 30 days following the date of audit notification.

An Educational Therapist’s membership level will convert to Affiliate Membership until compliance with CPD requirements is established.

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