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Asia Pacific Council for Clinical Supervision & Psychotherapy

Provider of certification for The Malaysian Indigneous Clinical Pastoral Education

Welcome

​​Brief  History of APCCSP
 
In November 1999, six Korean chaplains traveled to St. John Episcopal  Hospital in Far Rockaway, Long Island, New York, one of the health care facilities of the Episcopal Health Services (EHS).  They were to be trained  under Rev. Dr. Richard Liew, who was the Director for the Pastoral Care  Department, in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).  It was the beginning of  the indigenous CPE program.  

Indigenous CPE program provides  pastoral care clinical training within a specific cultural context.  The  program was developed by Rev. Dr. Liew with the collaboration of the College of  Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy New York – New Jersey Chapter (CPSP NY-NJ  Chapter).  The Chapter was under the leadership of Rev. Dr. John DeVelder  and Rev. Dr. Steven Voytovich at that time.  Since then, indigenous CPE has  been expanded to other countries in the world.  One of those countries is  Malaysia.

With the advent of the indigenous program, Rev. Dr. Liew,  together with Rev. Dr. Steven Voytovich and Rev. Dr. John DeVelder, wanted to  establish a culturally and contextually relevant credentialing organization for  the program outside the United States. In 2007, Rev. Dr. Cecily Broderic became  the Vice President for the Pastoral Care Department in EHS (a social outreach  arm owned and operated by the Diocese of Long Island, New York).  She  supported this noble vision and successfully obtained a grant from EHS in 2009  to develop this credentialing organization.

In April 2010, Rev. Dr. Liew,  Rev. Dr. Steven Voytovich and Rev. Dr. Cecily held a protem meeting with CPE  practitioners from Australia, India, and Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.   Thus began the process to develop a credentialing organization outside the  USA.  The meeting concluded that the Malaysian delegates, led by Annie  Wong, would spearhead the project and Malaysia would operate as the center to  establish the credentialing organization.

From April 2010 to July 2012,  numerous deliberations were conducted to name the credentialing  organization.  Finally in September 2012, after seventeen months of  preparation and deliberation, the Malaysian team had realized the vision and a  credentialing organization outside the United States was established. It was  quite a journey.  

It has taken twelve years, from the  conceptualization of the vision in 2000 to its formation in September 2012, for  the American team and the Malaysian team to materialize this regional  credentialing organization.  This is the first regional credentialing  organization of its kind and it is called the Asia Pacific Council for Clinical  Supervision and Psychotherapy (APCCSP). 

Founding  Fathers
  • Rev      Dr Richard Liew
  • Rev      Dr Steven Voytovich
  • Rev      Dr John DeVelder
Malaysia Board Members
  • Sow Chin Wong - President
  • Steven Abbarow - Vice President
  • Eddy Lee Kok Leong - Secretary
  • Angela Yeo  - Treasurer
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