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What is the Rationale for Getting Certified?

What is the Rationale for Getting Certified?. Professionally - To ensure within a profession that: The standards are being maintained to guarantee safe and ethical practice. What is the Rationale for Getting Certified?. Public - It indicates that:

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What is the Rationale for Getting Certified?

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  1. What is the Rationalefor Getting Certified? • Professionally - To ensure within a profession that: • The standards are being maintained to guarantee safe and ethical practice.

  2. What is the Rationalefor Getting Certified? • Public- It indicates that: • The person has mastered the expertise, advanced knowledge, skills, and / or proficiency necessary to practice in a particular area of specialty identified by an administering organization. • To ensure that the individual is minimally competent to do their job.

  3. National Strength &Conditioning Associationhttp://www.nsca-lift.org/ • Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialists (CSCS) • Implements safe and effective conditioning and strength programs for commercial or community health and fitness facilities; also colleges & universities. • Certified Personal Trainer (NSCA-CPT) * • Designed for professionals who work one-on-one with their clients in a variety of environments * Does not require a college degree to sit for exam

  4. Ergonomists Certificationshttp://humanics-es.com/bcpe.htm • Certified Professional Ergonomists (CPE) • Master’s Degree in ergonomics or equivalent life science or engineering science • 4 years of full time professional practice as an ergonomists practitioner • Certified Ergonomics Associate (CEA) • Associate Ergonomics Professional (AEP)

  5. Professional Ergonomist • Studies the interaction between people and machines and investigate environmental factors that affect work • Design or redesign the workplace, social, or physical work environment • Assist engineers in designing systems and machines • Implement new programs • Rehabilitate and educate • Evaluate systems

  6. Non-Professional Certifications

  7. Professional Tracks ACSM HFS ES RCEP (cPT) NSCA CSCS (CPT) NATA ATC Non-Professional Tracks AFAA ACE YMCA Cooper Institute IDEA (ACSM – cPT only) Top Organizations

  8. Common Requirements of Non -Professional Certifications • A college degree is Not always required • Current CPR Certification • Most will require CEUs • All will cost money to sit for the exams • Some will have prerequisites to sit for the exam • Some certifications will hold workshops • Many exams have multiple parts: • Written • Practical

  9. Non-ProfessionalFitness Certifications • Aerobics & Fitness Assoc. of America (AFAA) • American Council on Exercise (ACE) • American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) • YMCA • Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research

  10. Aerobics & Fitness Association of America • Certification types • Primary Aerobic Instructor Certification • Personal Trainer/Fitness Counselor Certification • Step Certification • Weight Training Certification • Fitness Practitioner Certification (see next slide)* • All Require • Either previous AFAA certification or degree in exercise science • CEU’s every 2 years

  11. AFAA Requirementshttp://www.afaa.com/ • Fitness Practitioner also requires: • 4 year college degree • Liability insurance • Record of workshop attendance • Home-study course • Pass 2 case studies

  12. American Council on Exercisehttp://www.acefitness.org/ • Certification types • Personal Trainer Certification • Group Fitness Instructor Certification • Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant Certification • CEU’s every 2 years

  13. ACSM Certified Personal Trainerhttp://www.lww.com/acsmcrc/ • New as of Jan 2005 • Minimum of 18 years old • HS diploma • 45 CEU’s every 3 years

  14. YMCAhttp://www.educom.on.ca/ymca-ywca/education.htm • Certification Types • Certifications working with older adults • Lifeguard and Special Populations Instructor • Arthritis Foundation YMCA Aquatic Program Instructor • Health and Fitness Certifications • Age and YMCA certification course requirements

  15. Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research • Offer a variety of certifications targeted to professionals in the healthcare and fitness industry: • Personal training and fitness • Dietary guidance • Aerobics fitness instruction • Health promotion • Public safety fitness

  16. What is the Rationalefor Getting Certified? • Professionally - To ensure within a profession that standards are being maintained to guarantee safe and ethical practice. • Public- It indicates that the person has mastered the expertise, advanced knowledge, skills, and proficiency necessary to practice in a particular area of specialty identified by an administering organization. • To insure that the individual is minimally competent to do their job.

  17. Summary • Certification- individual is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain standards through successful completion of a valid & reliable examination. Usually recognized Nationally. • Licensure - the granting of permission by a competent authority to an individual to engage in a practice or activity that would otherwise be illegal. Usually only recognized at the Statelevel. • Registration - the recording of professional qualification information which is placed in the organization’s registry; available to the Public about the qualifications of those listed.

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