Renewal of Trainer Certification

Certified DDP Trainers are required to be members in good standing of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute. Failure to meet membership criteria will result in immediate loss of certified status. Membership in DDPI requires:

• Timely payment of the annual DDPI membership fee
• Maintaining professional indemnity insurance, and,
• Maintaining registration or licensing with your professional body

You are required to resubmit your Attestation Form every four years. For Trainers we are aiming to co-ordinate your Practitioner, Consultant and Trainer renewal periods. Until this time, this can be submitted at the most timely certification renewal. Please note that you are required to inform DDPI immediately if there is any change to the information in your Attestation Form.

DDPI Attestation Form

• You will ensure that the information required for the DDPI Level One and Level Two database on all trainings you have been commissioned to facilitate is completed as soon as possible, at least one month prior to the courses commencing. This commissioning information goes to DDPI unless it is a UK training in which case the information should be sent to DDP Connects UK.
• When you facilitate Level One and Two Trainings you will provide a DDPI-approved core handout. These are available in the DDP Members Forum. These handouts can be added to with your own materials.
• You will ask participants to complete the DDPI-approved DDP Level One or Level Two Evaluation. You will keep all completed evaluation forms for the four- year renewal period, a selection of which may be required to be reviewed by the DDPI Board for quality control
• You will ensure all participants who have completed the training are given the appropriate Certificate of Attendance
• After each 28 hour training you will send the required training organisation fee to either DDPI or DDP Connects UK
• You will ensure that all the information required in the DDPI Level One and Level Two Attendance Spreadsheet is completed within a month of the completed training and sent to DDPI, unless it is a UK Training in which case the information should be sent to DDP Connects UK.
• It is imperative that DDPI and DDP Connects UK both maintain accurate records of attendance at Level One and Level Two trainings, and are able to receive timely payment of training fees from trainers.

If you are, at any point, unable to fulfil these mandatory renewal requirements please inform DDP Connects UK or DDPI as soon as possible to seek advice.

There are two elements of CPD required:

4(i). Keeping up to date with Practitioner Renewal Requirements

If you are providing DDP for families keep up to date with the Practitioner Renewal of Certification requirements specified in your country of practice.

If you are providing supervision keep up to date with the Consultant Renewal of Certification requirements

If you are a Consultant or Trainer who, due to your supervisory and/or training commitments, is unable to work with families, you will require to apply to the DDPI Board for an Exemption from Practitioner Renewal for Consultants and Trainers from the DDPI Board at least two months prior to your renewal date.

Request for Exemption from Practitioner Renewal Certification

The Board will assess your request and respond to your request for exemption with reference to:

1. Your length of service as a Consultant or Trainer
2. Your reason(s) for being unable to work with families, and,
3. Your current supervisory and training Activities

If your request for exemption is denied, the Board will require you to fulfil the Practitioner and/or Consultant Renewal clinical supervision requirements within a reasonable time scale.

4(ii). Providing continuing evidence of a good level of skill in the teaching, modelling and facilitating of DDP core principles and practices in Level One and Level Two Trainings

Over the four-year renewal period it is required that Trainers provide evidence to their DDP Renewal Consultant of the three following renewal elements:

1. An overall good level of skill in the teaching, modelling and facilitating of DDP Core principles and practices. To this end it is mandatory that you keep all participant evaluations from Level One and Level Two trainings that you have facilitated over the four-year renewal period. The DDPI Board, as part of quality assurance, reserves the right to contact all the participants from a Level One or Level Two training to request an independent evaluation. You will be informed that this is going to happen prior to the course commencing.
   And;
2. A continuing interest, willingness and contribution to being a part of the DDP community, befitting the role of a DDP Trainer. At least two sources of evidence over the four years are required for this criteria. The evidence can be from a range of sources:
   1. Co-training Level One and/or Level Two with a certified trainer
   2. Presenting at a DDP Conference
   3. Attendance at the minimum of one annual DDP conference
   4. Attendance at the minimum of one Trainers Day
3. Level One and Level Two handouts that are up to date