What is the difference between mental health abc certificate

These three certificates are hierarchical psychological practice admission certificates exclusive to the domestic education system. The core differences lie in the application threshold, applicable scenarios, and assessment difficulty. The grades are gradually reduced from A to C, covering all-scenario psychological service needs from teaching and research managers to ordinary faculty.

The C certificate that everyone usually comes into contact with most is definitely the C certificate. The young class teachers around me who have just joined the job will basically be reminded by the school to take this certificate in the first year of employment. There is no hard threshold for application. As long as teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools can apply, the most practical basic content is tested: how to quickly identify students’ emotional abnormalities, the avoidance principle of communicating with rebellious children, and psychological activities in small groups in the class. The basic design of the program, to put it bluntly, is to provide basic psychological knowledge to all teachers who deal with students. After passing the exam, they can participate in daily psychological care for students legally and compliantly. Our school’s Chinese teacher who just joined the class last year worked as a deputy class. He took off work time to prepare for the exam in less than a month and got the certificate. When children have conflicts or are anxious before exams, they can calm most of them by themselves without sending everything to the psychological room.

If you want to be a full-time resident psychology teacher, the C certificate is not enough and you have to take the B certificate. The application process for the B certificate is much stricter. You must either graduate from a psychology-related major or hold the C certificate for 2 years before you are eligible to apply. The content of the test is also quite in-depth. You need to understand the practical specifications of commonly used psychological assessment tools, the complete process of individual and group counseling, and common psychological disorders. According to the identification and referral standards, our school recruited full-time psychology teachers the year before last and received more than 20 resumes. The last three people interviewed all held B certificates. If teachers who are not majoring in psychology want to transfer to psychology, most of them have to save enough years for C certificates and prepare seriously for half a year before they can pass the exam.

As for the A certificate, it is basically the "top" certificate in the psychology field of the education system. To apply, you must have held the B certificate for three years, and you must have corresponding psychological teaching and research results or front-line intervention experience to be qualified. The exams are all about overall planning, such as how to build a regional psychology curriculum system and systematic intervention plans for students' psychological crisis events. How to design it? Last month I went to the city to participate in psychological teaching and research training. There are nearly 100 primary and secondary schools in the whole district, and there are only 12 teachers with A certificates in total. They are basically psychological teaching researchers in each district or the leader of psychological education in the school. They are usually responsible for coordinating psychological teaching and research in the district, or providing intervention guidance for major psychological crisis cases.

Of course, there are a lot of relevant discussions now. Some people say that this certification is only useful within the education system and will not be recognized after leaving school and going to social psychological institutions. Some people complain that the C certificate assessment is too loose. Many people who have passed the exam are still at a loss when they encounter emotional problems among students. But at least in the K12 education scene, the boundaries of the validity of these three certificates are still very clear. Whether it is for job setting or professional title evaluation, they are clear bonus points or admission items.