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Mounted early '96 (?), last changed 28.x.96

U.K.C.P.

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

The voluntary registration system for psychotherapists in Britain is currently the province of the U.K.C.P. (though there is a "confederacy" (their term) of psycho-analytic institutions who have split off from the U.K.C.P., the B.C.P.) The U.K.C.P. works by registering trainings who then recommend that trainees (and some "grandparents" who have been working for so long that they didn't do a formalised training) are (or are not) registerable by the U.K.C.P. itself. The graduate/grandparent then applies to the U.K.C.P. to be put on the register. The U.K.C.P. requires that training organisations have formal codes of ethics and practice and will strike people off the register for failing to live up to these.

The U.K.C.P. register itself is published by Routledge at £27.50 for the paperback 1997 edition. Routledge have a credit card order line at:

'phone: [+44|0] 1264 342779
'fax: [+44|0] 1264 343005

Routledge themselves are at http://www.routledge.com/routledge/default.html and at:

11 New Fetter Lane,
London
EC4P 4EE
Britain

There is no formal registration body for counsellors though the British Association of Counsellors (B.A.C.) is almost such a position. It registers individuals rather than trainings.

I hope to be mounting a lot of information from the U.K.C.P. here in the near future. I will also hope to convince the B.C.P. and B.A.C. of the value of information from all three bodies being available here thereafter.

For the time here's the contact info. for the U.K.C.P.!

167-169 Great Portland Street, London WC1N 5FB 'phone: [+44|0] 171-436 3002
'fax: [+44|0] 171-436 3013

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