Written & mounted by Chris Evans, if you want to be kept updated by
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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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