Professional accreditation is primarily relevant to licensed practice.
If we want the privileges associated with the medical model that go along with licensing, it is an open question in my mind as to whether we really want alternative accreditation or whether our continuing efforts to lobby for a more realistic approach to evaluation research within APA is more cost effective. In my view, the logic of humanistic therapy supports a contract-based practice model incorporating the assumption of mutuality as an alternative to licensing. Cosmetology, Funeral Services Educators, Landscape Architects, Schools of Dance, Recreation and Park Services are just a small number of the professionals who have licenses and whose accreditation agencies are approved by the DOE accredited. It seems to me that in professional relationships based on openness and mutuality, adding a bureaucratic layer beyond normal contract protections is economically wasteful.