Campus Alberta Applied Psychology: Counselling Initiative Welcome to the Campus Alberta Applied Psychology [CAAP]: Counselling Initiative, a partnership among three universities in Alberta: Athabasca University, the University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge. Counsellor Education: Accessible, Innovative, Professional The CAAP initiative was developed to respond to the need for better access to graduate programming in counselling in Canada and around the world. The three universities are committed to providing high quality, accessible, and flexible graduate education to students regardless of their location. Our mission is to enhance professional counselling practice through life-long learning. New CAAP Consortium Model Beginning January 2008, the CAAP: Counselling Initiative will move to a new administrative model. The new model moves away from the highly centralized administration of the joint programs to consortium model in which each of the three institutional partners will be offering its own graduate programs in counselling. The programs at each partner institution are designed to: enhance the accessibility, flexibility; and responsiveness of graduate counselor education programming in the province; provide students, who face various barriers to completing degrees through traditional program, with the opportunity to further their education through a high-quality Alberta-based program; and prepare students to function effectively as professional counsellors orcounseling psychologists in a wide range of work environments. The consortium model offers the following major advantages and benefits: the assembling of a body of academic expertise in counselling that offers students a much broader range of educational opportunity than is available from other providers; the production of well-qualified graduates from a consortium of graduate programs that build on and enrich the strengths of the original CAAP program, with greater institutional differentiation and more wide-spread academic engagement in the program; and the creation of new knowledge and new forms of professional practice by a constellation of researchers at three institutions. Program and Application Information Applicants must apply directly to the graduate programs offered by one of the three universities. For program and application information, please follow the links below to each university department. Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology, Athabasca University Contact: apply@gcap.ca Division of Applied Psychology, University of Calgary Contact: penny@ucalgary.ca Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge Contact: master.counselling@uleth.ca Please direct questions about the programs offered by each university directly to the departments listed above. Page last updated: August 28, 2009 @ 06:33:39 AM