Aims & Objectives
The common aims and objectives of ACA are:
- To monitor, maintain, set and improve professional standards in counsellor education and practice;
- To provide an industry-based association for persons engaged in counsellor education and practice;
- To be a self-regulatory body to provide for registration of counsellors in Australia;
- Liaise with Government for the benefit of members and the public;
- To provide a single unified voice for the counselling industry;
- To provide a consistent Code of Conduct and set of Practitioner Standards;
- To promote the professional development and growth of practising counsellors;
- To provide a National Complaints Tribunal;
- To assess, review and recognise counsellor education courses;
- To maintain a register of qualified practicing counsellors;
- To identify to consumers, counsellors that meet nationally-approved standards of practice;
- To help the public at large to become more aware of the counselling profession and the availability of reputable counsellors;
- To raise awareness of Australian counsellors Internationally;
- To provide a vehicle to promote research in the counselling profession;
- To help create employment for counsellors; and
- To provide a quality control mechanism for the public that also enables the consumer to access a formal complaints procedure.