UKCP Re-registration 2008/9

Please return your UKCP renewal from for 2008/9 with your cheque for £141 made payable to AFT Ltd, the address being:

AFT, 7 Executive Suite, St James Court, Wilderspool Causeway, Warrington, WA4 6PS

As a Member organisation of UKCP, AFT must then countersign your form, ensuring that members re-register in accordance with the UKCP time-table and fulfil the AFT Continuing Professional Development requirements.

Registrants will be asked to provide evidence of their CPD over a 3 year cycle. AFT will write to those Registrants who need to complete a CPD review form for 2008 - please see the right hand panel for the relevant form to download. If you do not receive a letter, you do not need to complete the CPD form this year.

CRB Checks: For those who are unable to obtain a CRB check through their employer and have not had a CRB check in the past 3 years, we require you to do a basic Scottish Disclosure, which can be obtained on-line from http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk

Insurance: please click here for link

If you have not received a renwal form direct from UKCP please complete and download the new registration form.

UKCP Current Issues

UKCP CAMPAIGN APRIL 2008 - The Restriction of Psychotherapy Modalities by the Department of Health

Comments to our members from the Association for Family Therapy

The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK  supports the UKCP campaign to ensure that there is a range of psychotherapy modalities available to the public. Although it is important that psychotherapy provision is based on what is most effective and efficient, an important factor is the fit between client and modality approach. This is a strong argument for ensuring that there is choice for clients and also that all methods are appropriately researched. The humanistic psychotherapies cannot be seen as a subcategory of systemic, cognitive behavioural or psychodynamic psychotherapy or as a post basic specialism as inferred by the Prime Minister’s response to the March petition. They have a long, established tradition of their own and it is extremely concerning that this significant modality may be marginalised if not included in the development of occupational standards for counselling and psychotherapy being undertaken by Skills for Health.

As an organisation our main concern is that the public has access to appropriate psychotherapy and counselling help. We have supported the development and research of family and systemic psychotherapy so that it is widely recognised as effective on its own, and in conjunction with other treatments and approaches. It is one of the evidence based approaches available within the NHS. However we also recognise the value of other approaches which may at times be more appropriate than our modality. We urge the continuation of the rich diversity of provision as well as continued attention to effectiveness . UKCP has urged AFT and its members to support the current campaign by writing to their MPs. All UKCP registrants will have received information directly from UKCP. We hope that these comments will help our members in their response. Further information on statutory regulation can be found on the UKCP website www.psychotherapy.org.uk

UKCP SERVICES DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Following the appointment of Courtenay Young, as Vice Chair of Registrants’ Services at the AGM in March, the existing Services Development Committee is reforming and would like to recruit more registrants from the diverse sections of psychotherapy represented within UKCP.  If you are interested in having a say as to how services to registrants are developed and would like to be involved in the decision making process, please contact Jude Cohen for further information.  Email:  jude.cohen@psychotherapy.org.uk - Tel:  020 7014 9969

The next SDC scheduled meetings will be held at the UKCP office.

Friday 1st Feb
Friday 25th Apr
Friday 30th May
Friday 11th July 

This is a provisional timetable for 2008 (yet to be confirmed):