Community Standards
A Grace-filled Community Requires Grace-filled Participation
Effective upon membership enrollment | thecptcollective.com
Our Commitment
The Christian Play Therapist Collective exists to be a professional home for clinicians integrating Christian faith with play therapy practice. We are committed to building a community defined by grace-filled professionalism, where members can bring their clinical questions, their theological wrestling, and their hard days, and be met with both excellence and grace.
These standards exist not to restrict our community but to protect it. Every member deserves a space that is safe, respectful, and trustworthy. By joining CPTC, each member agrees to uphold these standards in all interactions within the community.
1. PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND ETHICS
CPTC is a professional community. All members are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the ethical standards of their licensure, the Association for Play Therapy (APT) best practices, and the AACC Code of Ethics where applicable.
Members agree to:
• Represent their credentials, training, and experience honestly and accurately.
• Refrain from providing clinical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations to other members or their clients within community spaces.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries in all community interactions.
• Report concerns about unethical practice to the appropriate licensing board rather than airing them within the CPTC community.
• Honor the professional reputation of colleagues, even in disagreement.
Members agree not to:
• Misrepresent their credentials, training, or affiliations within CPTC.
• Use CPTC membership or the CPTC name to lend credibility to practices that violate professional ethical standards.
• Engage in solicitation, self-promotion, or marketing within member spaces beyond what is explicitly permitted by CPTC.
2. CONFIDENTIALITY OF MEMBER CONTENT AND DISCUSSIONS
What is shared within CPTC stays within CPTC. Members frequently share clinical questions, professional challenges, and personal reflections in community spaces. This requires a high standard of confidentiality from every member.
Members agree to:
• Keep member-only content, discussions, resources, and materials within the CPTC community.
• Not share, reproduce, distribute, or publish member content outside of CPTC without explicit written permission from the content creator and CPTC leadership.
• Protect the identity and privacy of members who share personal or professional information in community spaces.
• Use clinical information shared by other members for peer support and consultation purposes only, not for gossip, criticism, or external discussion.
Members agree not to:
• Screenshot, copy, or distribute member discussions, resources, or content outside of CPTC.
• Share identifying information about other members without their explicit consent.
• Use information shared in CPTC spaces to harm, discredit, or disadvantage another member professionally or personally.
3. RESPECTFUL DISAGREEMENT AND DIALOGUE
CPTC is a community of clinicians who share a faith and a calling, but we do not share identical views on every clinical, theological, or professional question. Disagreement is welcome. Disrespect is not.
Members agree to:
• Engage in disagreement with curiosity and humility rather than defensiveness or contempt.
• Critique ideas, approaches, or perspectives rather than attacking individuals.
• Assume good intent in fellow members unless clear evidence suggests otherwise.
• Bring concerns about a member’s conduct directly to CPTC leadership rather than addressing them publicly within community spaces.
• Model the grace-filled professionalism that CPTC represents in all interactions.
Members agree not to:
• Engage in personal attacks, name-calling, shaming, or bullying of any kind.
• Use community spaces to air grievances about specific colleagues, supervisors, or organizations by name.
• Dismiss or demean members based on their clinical approach, theological perspective, credential level, or experience.
• Engage in behavior that creates a hostile, unwelcoming, or unsafe environment for any member.
4. FAITH INTEGRATION AND THEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
CPTC is a Christian professional community. Members share a commitment to integrating Christian faith with play therapy practice, but theological diversity exists within that commitment. We hold our shared faith with conviction and our theological differences with grace.
Members agree to:
• Affirm the shared Christian identity of CPTC while respecting theological diversity among members.
• Engage faith integration questions with the same clinical rigor and ethical care they bring to their clinical work.
• Honor members who integrate faith differently than they do, provided those approaches are ethically grounded and client-centered.
• Bring theological disagreements to dialogue with humility, recognizing that CPTC is not a confessional or doctrinal body.
Members agree not to:
• Use community spaces to promote specific denominational positions as the only acceptable Christian perspective.
• Demean or dismiss members whose theological framework differs from their own.
• Impose their theological convictions on other members or on the community as a whole.
5. ENFORCEMENT AND CONSEQUENCES
CPTC leadership takes community standards seriously. Violations will be addressed with proportionality and care, consistent with the grace-filled professionalism CPTC represents.
Minor violations:
A private conversation with the member, clarifying the standard and inviting correction. Most concerns are resolved at this level.
Moderate violations:
A formal written warning with specific documentation of the violation and expected behavior going forward. A second moderate violation may result in suspension or removal.
Serious violations:
Immediate suspension or removal from the community without warning. Serious violations include but are not limited to: sharing confidential member content outside CPTC, harassment or bullying of any member, misrepresentation of credentials, or conduct that brings significant harm to the community or its members.
CPTC leadership reserves the right to exercise discretion in all enforcement decisions. Membership in CPTC is a privilege, not a right, and may be revoked at any time for conduct inconsistent with these standards. No refund of membership fees will be issued upon removal for standards violations.
Members who wish to report a standards violation may do so by contacting hello@thecptcollective.com. All reports will be handled with confidentiality and care.
6. MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT
By enrolling in CPTC membership, each member affirms that they have read, understood, and agree to abide by these Community Standards. These standards apply to all interactions within CPTC community spaces including but not limited to the member site, virtual events, Bible study sessions, and any other CPTC-hosted gatherings.
These standards may be updated periodically. Members will be notified of material changes and continued membership constitutes acceptance of updated standards.
Questions about these standards may be directed to hello@thecptcollective.com.
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