4 SEPTEMBER 2008 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 136 3649

The completion of 120 hours of personal psychotherapy with a registered psychotherapist during and/or following qualification.

3. Interim Psychotherapist Scope of Practice
   Psychotherapists shall be competent to use various methods of psychotherapy to assist clients in their personal growth, relationship development, psychological life issues and mental health problems, whilst taking into consideration the bicultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Clients may include children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, whānau, groups, organisations and the public.

A key element of psychotherapy is the therapeutic use of the relationship between the psychotherapist and client. Psychotherapy may involve, but is not limited to: Exploring the origins, maintenance and change of life patterns; the assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems; and working with patterns of psychological life which may be outside of conscious awareness, including non-verbal and preverbal patterns. Various coherent theoretical models are used in psychotherapy.

It is noted that in practising psychotherapy, the context of a person’s life needs to be taken into account, including social, cultural and spiritual contexts.

Psychotherapists shall practise within their area and level of expertise and with due regard to ethical, legal and board-prescribed standards.

Note: All psychotherapists who wish to practise psychotherapy as a psychotherapist, advertise, or hold themselves out to be a psychotherapist, must be registered with the board. Practice is not confined to clinical practice and encompasses all roles that a psychotherapist may assume such as client care, research, policy making, educating and consulting.

Prescribed Qualifications for Interim Psychotherapist Scope of Practice

An approved master’s level qualification in psychotherapy and/or child psychotherapy from a New Zealand university or a New Zealand training institution or an approved comparable qualification

OR

Satisfactory completion of an assessment accredited or set by the board

Note:

1. A practitioner with an Interim Psychotherapist Scope of Practice must meet the qualifications for the Interim Psychotherapist Scope of Practice. However, they may not have yet completed 900 hours of supervised clinical or therapeutic psychotherapy practice, and/or completed 120 hours of personal therapy. Hours can be completed during and/or following qualification.

2. Acceptance in this scope must be for the purpose of achieving registration in either the Psychotherapist Scope of Practice or the Psychotherapist Scope of Practice with Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Specialism.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of September 2008.

JACQUELYN MANLEY, Registrar, The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand.

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The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (Fees) Notice 2008

Pursuant to Part 6, section 130(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the following notice is given.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand Notice 2008.

(2) This notice comes into force on 1 October 2008 and applies to fees for the year from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009.

2. Fee—The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (“the board”) sets the following fees, payable to the board, specified in the attached Schedule.

3. Tax—The fees are inclusive of goods and services tax.

4. No refund—Fees are not refundable when an application is declined.

5. Waiver—The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand may provide for the waiver or transfer of any fee, or part thereof, in accordance with current policy at the time the fee is paid.

Schedule
Fees Payable $
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION

• Initial registration within a scope of practice 281.25
• Overseas qualified registration 787.50
• Reinstatement to the Register within 2 years 112.50
• Reinstatement to the Register after 2 years 281.25
  ANNUAL PRACTISING CERTIFICATE (APC)
• Annual Practising Certificate, paid prior to 30 September (includes a disciplinary levy of $56.25) 618.75
• Annual Practising Certificate, paid after 30 September (includes a disciplinary levy of $56.25) 731.25
• Annual Practising Certificate short year (includes a disciplinary levy of $56.25)
  For those who apply for an Annual Practising Certificate with 3 months or less remaining in the practising year ie July, August and September 506.25
  COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT FOR SCOPE OF PRACTICE
• Application for changes to, or removal of, conditions on scope of practice 112.50
• Application to move from one scope to another 112.50