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News Archive
| In Print! (Date Posted: 18/02/2010) |
| Relational-Centred Counselling trainee, Phillip Whittington, has published his first collection of seven stories, all written in verse. 'What a Hullaballo!' is inspired by Phill's own memories of being ten or twelve years old and focuses on the importance of friendship, sharing and needing others to survive.
As well as being a lot of fun, the stories could be useful to therapists and clients exploring various themes in growing up. The characters are not named, so can represent the different aspects of the self, for example, the perceived self, the hidden self and the fantasised self.
The book also represents Phill's triumph over his dyslexia. "I used to be really fearful of showing people my writing because of the dyslexia," he told the Scarborough Evening News. "Over the years I've got over that. Now I've done the book I hope it will inspire other people to do the same."
For more information about the book or to purchase a copy, please see: http://www.whatahullabaloo.com
| Congratulations to Ken Evans (Date Posted: 20/01/2010) |
| Congratulations are due to Ken Evans who was recently awarded a framed Certificate from the Board of Trustees and James Antrican; the out-going Chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The award was in recognition of Ken's 'Outstanding Contribution to the work of UKCP, and Services to Psychotherapy'. Well done Ken, and 'CONGRATULATIONS' from your colleagues at ScPTI! | Latest News: REPORT HIPS SKILLS FOR HEALTH WORKING GROUP (Date Posted: 17/07/2009) |
| Report to HIP Section
Re: Skills for Health Project
From HIPS/UKCP Skills for Health Working Group
HIPS SfH WG Members: Tricia Scott (Chair), Heward Wilkinson, Angela Cotter, Barbara Monk-Steel, Jocelyne Quennell, Ken Evans (with Carmen Ablack as UKCP consultant/advisor)
Dear Delegates
This report is to update you on the final stages of the Skills for Health Project and the work of the HIPS Working Group which has been in process since March 2008. The Humanistic NOS are now available on the Skills for Health website and are open for consultation and comment. I understand they can be further amended. We hope you will respond directly. The next stage is to try them out in practice – which a number of MOs and individuals have already put themselves forward for. Please contact Nadine Singh of Skills for Health directly (see website) if you would like to be part of these trial runs – you can do so as an individual and minimally if necessary.
There are two parts to the Skills for Health Project in Psychological Therapies
Part 1: The Expert Reference Group (ERG) led by the team at University College London (UCL) including Tony Roth and Steven Pilling. This part of the project involved four modalities (CBT; Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic;Faily /Systemic; and Humanistic (originally called Humanistic Person-Centred Experiential (HPCE)).
These ERGs included experts in research and the project focussed on extracting the evidence-base for competences in the modality. Originally HIPS/UKCP did not have any membership of this group. Fairly early on (after one or two meetings) as a result of Carmen Ablack’s and James Antrican’s work, Vanja Orlans was invited to join the ERG to represent HIPS/UKCP. She remained our only member until the last meeting when Angela Cotter was also invited to attend.
As a result of the skilful and determined political lobbying by the HIPS Political Group (Chaired by Jocelyne Quennell who will report separately) of Lord Alderdice and Peter Fonagy, the HIPS MWG was able to negotiate an external consultancy role to the ERG and to in-put the draft competences as they were developing. Angela Cotter’s attendance in the final stages of the ERG was also a result of this political work. A tremendous amount of detailed thought and drafting went into this work and the HIPS MWG feel that generally we have made a big impact on the resulting competences. Our thrust, as sanctioned by the section, has consistently been to widen the framework and the scope of the work in this ERG to include as far as possible the full range of approaches in the Humanistic and Integrative Humanistic tradition. We feel that this has been achieved in a far more successful way than we could have imagined at the outset – when the Person-centred approach (PCA) was conflated with the humanistic tradition and no other aspects of the tradition were included. We particularly fought for (and the battles were hard won) the inclusion of language and concepts relating to the multidimensional nature of experience (body, mind, spirit and unconscious, intersubjective and transpersonal processes) and the multidimensional nature and centrality of the therapeutic relationship as a medium for change. The results are not perfect, but we feel they are good enough and porous enough that the diversity of our tradition can be recognised and ‘exist’ within the framework. It remains to be seen how they are received and what can be achieved with them.
These competences – including two guidance documents one for clinicians and one for service users – are ready for publication on the UCL website. They are not open to consultation as the NOS are (see below). They are being published separately from the NOS. It is the intention that they are for use by anyone who is a training provider to inform curriculum development. They are not a prescriptive set of competences but elective training tools (ie as I understand it you have a choice about using them at all and which parts you use). They can be used by both counselling and psychotherapy training providers and do not address the issue of the different levels between these two disciplines. In seeking clarification about this issue Tony Roth has said clearly that the issue of level was explicitly avoided and that training providers themselves will be responsible for managing the level at which they are taught. They are not directly connected to the Standards of Proficiency proposed by the Health Professions Council (HPC) Professional Liaison Group (PLG) consultation document nor the level 5 / undergraduate (counsellors) and level 7/ postgraduate (psychotherapists) levels being discussed there. I am unclear still about how this will work in practice and what the implications will be. It is highly likely however that they will be used in the NHS to develop staff skills in psychological therapies. This raises a number of questions about whether competences can be delivered satisfactorily without the framework of personal therapy and supervision that we believe to be an essential part of our training. However as an alternative response to the current monopoly of CBT, I believe they will contribute to the widening of the field in the NHS in the longer term. They are there as a seed which we hope will eventually grow.
Part 2: The National Occupational Standards Modality Working Groups – these groups were led by consultants who were experts in developing NOS (ie not representing the profession) and included practitioner members from the particular modality. This part of the project was originally intimately linked with the ERG competences and at the beginning of the group we were told that the NOS would be based on the foundations of the ERG competences and that these were set in stone. However during the process of this MWG this message changed. The two parts of the project were described as ‘separate’ and the whole framework was loosened up. There were three HIPS/UKCP members of this group from the outset – Angela Cotter, Barbara Monk-Steel and myself. The other members identified themselves as counsellors and interestingly the majority defined themselves as ‘integrative’. Although we were not supposed to be representing any professional bodies there was no doubt that the majority were BACP members and had the interests of counselling at heart. They understood ‘humanistic’ as ‘integrative’ and many of them were arguing for the inclusion of similar concepts as described above as we were. There was still a powerful PCA influence in this group which seemed to hold undue sway but on the whole we were able to dialogue about our differences and the principle of inclusivity was established early on by the group members. Our battles here were for the inclusion of more depth and complexity in the NOS. This was a much more coherent group – and while some of the battles had to be fought again – on the whole this was not with the MWG members but with the political forces in the background.
Title of this Modality
Originally the title of this modality was HPCE. We argued strongly that this was not representative of our tradition which included a range of approaches united by common philosophical foundations and values. We established that until the matter could be settled satisfactorily we would prefer to be referred to as the ‘fourth modality’. The title of this modality was finally agreed as ‘Humanistic’. The HIPS/UKCP group were happy with this for the following reasons:
a. Our focus had been on the inclusivity of the content of the NOS. Provided this was ensured we were less concerned about the title – and we had by then negotiated this with the group
b. We established that each of the NOS areas would include an introductory sentence which referred to the diversity of approaches within the humanistic tradition and the philosophical and value base that we shared.
c. The NOS consultants for Skills for Health said that eventually the modality titles would no longer be used as the intention was to publish the NOS of all four modalities in one suite of NOS.
The NOS are now in their consultation draft form on the Skills for Health website and are open for comment. Again we feel that we have managed to impact this process and that the resulting NOS are more representative of the diversity of the Humanistic and Integrative Humanistic tradition.
I want to thank the members of this working group and to acknowledge the tireless commitment they have made to this process over the last 18 months to two years. We have developed into a finely tuned, collaborative team – with each member contributing different elements at different times – supportive, challenging, thoughtful, intellectually rigorous, politically astute – as well as angry, frustrated, despairing – and hopeful, encouraging and inspiring. I think that each of us has played all of these parts at different times. We have spent hours in conference and reading and drafting. I feel very proud to have been part of this work. I feel we have really made a contribution to the future of our tradition and the future of psychotherapy as we understand and practice it. I also believe that we have an important contribution to make to the emotional health of the people of this country and that our existence in both parts of this Skills for Health Project will help to ensure this contribution can be made. That is why I have been involved.
It is time for me to step back now – and I would like to give notice to the section that I will step down as an ex-officio delegate at the end of September. I shall watch from France as things develop and unfold and you all carry on this amazing journey on behalf of our tradition – and my heart and spirit is with you all.
Tricia Scott, 16th July 2009
| KEEPING IN TOUCH (Date Posted: 08/04/2009) |
| In addition to the heavy investment of time and energy in the HIPS Political Group Ken is busy this year with three key note addresses at conferences 1.International Integrative Conference in Brno, CZ in April, theme:the politicization of research
2.The United Kingdom Association for Gestalt Practitioners, UK in June, theme: Time
3. EAIP/MIP Integrative conference Manchester in November, theme: therapy in the world.
See you there? | We must Act! (Date Posted: 08/04/2009) |
| Dear Registrant
We must Act!
It is impossible to predict what the full impact of the NICE Guidelines on Depression, if they aren’t drastically altered, will be. But they will immediately and increasingly deny appropriate help to the people they proclaim to benefit. And NICE’s remit is not limited to the NHS.
NICE now insists on only one research method - Randomised Control Trials - designed to evaluate medical treatments for defined medical conditions - ‘illness’, and suitable only for psychological therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. For the majority of therapies this research method is inappropriate.
“We believe that NICE should be held to account for its decision to disallow the great mass of research that was specifically designed to understand how psychotherapy works. By insisting on a single methodology ….. it has been able to simplify its recommendations.
But anyone who is aware of the well documented effectiveness of a great variety of therapies and the failure of the RCT paradigm to show that any one form of therapy is consistently superior to the others, will see NICE’s conclusions as damaging. Damaging, because in practice their actions will suppress all therapies that fail to mimic medical treatments. If successful, this will have dire consequences for patient choice and the future of a rich variety of psychotherapies.
(Peter Stratton, Chair UKCP Research Committee)
So please help us lead NICE and others into more enlightened ways. I am surrounded at the Political Action Group by numerous people working vigorously to do just that. I attach a more detailed document to help you focus your energy.
Please let us know what you are doing via NICE@ukcp.org.uk We are continually receiving many excellent letters that we will be able to use in our response to NICE.
Best wishes
Richard Dening
Chair UKCP Political Action Group
We must Act! Please see the email and attachments sent out by ScPTI to all members clearly showing what YOU can do. | URGENT REQUEST FROM UKCP (Date Posted: 20/02/2009) |
| Dear Colleagues, Please read the urgent request from UKCP for your questions for the Health Professions Council (HPC)the body that is regulating the profession of counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. It may help for you to read the previous Scpti news item update on regulation.
10th February 2009
Dear .............
An initiative has emerged out of the UKCP Executive to enable further questions, dialogue and consultation with the Health Professions Council prior to the AGM. We have created an opportunity for you to send us a list of any specific questions that you have with reference to statutory regulation. These questions will be taken forward to a meeting with a representative from the HPC on the 5th of March 2009.
The last UKCP Political Action Group meeting was concerned with how to change a quagmire into a playing field and those present grappled with the many political issues related to Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), as well as the mapping process in Skills for Health (SFH). The role of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the significance of different research methods in evaluating the effectiveness of psychological therapies was matter for debate alongside the National Collaboration Centre for Mental Health (NMCCH) which aims to issue guidelines for Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) to purchase and provide psychological therapies. The Care Quality Commission may also play an increasing role in the future in auditing PCT’s and issues concerning patient choice are high on everyone’s agenda.
The relationship between these projects and the role of the HPC needs further clarification and we hope that this consultation process will enable this to happen. For those of us who have been involved at the interface with these projects it has proved challenging to grasp all the issues and so our thinking is that most people will too have anxieties, questions and a need for clarification and reassurance on specific matters.
Please consult with your member organisations and collate any questions that you may have. Please send these to us by February 27th at the latest. We hope that we will be able to circulate answers to these questions prior to the AGM where they will be formally addressed.
Best wishes
James Antrican
Chair UKCP
| Statutory Regulation Latest!! (Date Posted: 20/02/2009) |
| Dear Colleagues, A lot of information and misinformation is flying around the internet about the Heath Professons Council (HPC) and their regulation of counselling and psychotherapy.
One of my colleagues in the HIPS Political Strategy Group, Jocelyne Quennell, writes below about her experience of the regulatory process with the DoH and separately with HPC. Several people, including myself, Heward Wilkinson and Jocleyne Quennell have been working flat out on the politics of regulation on behalf of the profession for over 18 months (well actually for years). I can identlfy with and agree Jocelyne's position. She speaks from the head and the heart and is RELIABLY informed.
Ken Evans.
Dear All,
I am glad that people are talking about these matters because I think it is vital that we stay related at this time as well as respectful of the diversity of positions which may be emerging. As the HIPS political co-ordinator I have been working day and night on these issues for the last sixteen months in order to try to ascertain our position and secure what I have perceived to be the best interests for our clients, registrants and disciplines. This includes status and respect for public sector employment and also freedom and innovation in our inter-personal creative and therapeutic endeavours. This has been very much on behalf of all those who I am aware have worked so hard and invested so much to gain their clinical and academic qualifications as well as UKCP accreditation. This means a great deal to them personally and is a publicly recognised statement with regards to quality assurance.
I know something about statutory regulation having been involved with the HPC since 1994 (when they were still the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine) when the arts therapies first sought regulation with them. I have been regulated for quite a few years by the HPC in this capacity and I have also taken the first UKCP MO through accreditation with them. That is the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. In no way do I see them as the enemy. To the contrary, I see them as a safe, effective, transparent, accountable, process oriented, developmental, rigorous, efficient and fair regulatory authority with values and principles that are very close to those of the UKCP. I would distinguish them utterly from what we have all witnessed in SFH where most of us appear to be disappointed for probably good reasons in the ways we have been re-defined in narrow, reductive and mechanistic terms. I can see how this DH work could compromise our ethics and practice in ways that insult our knowledge, skill and personhood. I can understand that it is very difficult after many years of training and practice to be told as yet -'in draft form'- that as Integrative-Humanistic Psychotherapists we will be allowed to "lean forward and make eye contact" with the client and have "a non evaluative approach to the therapeutic relationship". Also the complex, diverse and creative approaches to supervision that have been developed in our field to date are to be reduced to the aim of maintaining "fidelity to the model". I have experienced both IAPT and SFH as reminiscent of images from the literature of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. This world of manuals with its implicit aim being to gain statistics for use by Government is very problematic in my view. The nation appears to be being herded into graphs towards this end. It also perhaps heralds the emergence of a kind of 'spin of the inner world' which is to be 'policed.' I think that it is a serious issue for public concern and that it is leading to practices which are potentially disturbing and alienating for a great many actual people. I can see why everyone is worried.
HIPS will be writing their own report on SFH and we are waiting to see what happens with the impasse we have reached with the political process. I am a post-modernist thinker who does not believe that any text has any absolute meaning, but rather that the meaning of the text-statutory regulation- in this case- is defined in the unique and specific social and historical context that it is situated within. I have been researching the context of statutory regulation this year very carefully and what I have discovered is that the current political, economic and moral climate in the delivery of psychological therapies is frankly rather bleak. I am very concerned by the overlapping personnel and methodology between SFH, NICE and the NCCMH (not to mention vested interests). The new guidelines will have serious implications for all public service delivery of psychological therapies in the UK. I am very concerned that the newly emergent Care Quality Commission will have greater powers to audit PCTs and enforce the guidelines delivered by the NCCMH and NICE. As yet I have no idea of the extent of the implications of this for the third sector. This all has a 'totalitarian' atmosphere and runs contrary to the 'open -mindedness' and 'cutting-edge' nature of our professions.
The HPC have not evidenced to me that they want to take this kind of restrictive or prescriptive approach. In fact I have evidence to the contrary in the field of the arts therapies that they have not done so. That is why I think it is a good thing that James Antrican has sent out a letter to the whole of UKCP requesting that all MOs, including registrants if people can make time to liaise, have the chance to articulate their questions and concerns directly in consultation with the HPC. It is my view that this is where we all need to put our energy right now at this precise moment. I think we have a week to go to get questions and concerns formulated. I say get on the e-mail everyone! And pass on the concerns quickly in the form of questions to the UKCP. After that we can gather the facts back from this consultation process with the HPC and we will hopefully be in a better position to be able to assess more effectively how far the HPC aim to be complicit with that which has been outlined above and how far they can actually be supportive in protecting and enabling the futures of the diverse range of psychological therapies in the UK. I have experience to suggest that the HPC, like ourselves, have ethical standards as well as ideals and also, like us, have the capacity to stand by and to stand up for both.
The consultation process will hopefully give us all a clear indication of their position and I hope that everyone is taking the time to invest in and articulate their concerns right now. With the new shape of UKCP emerging which is aiming to be far more inclusive of registrant members I hope in the year ahead we will be able to have some very direct, far reaching and communicative liaison and debate with all the registrants. UKCP will be able to give them accurate, clear and up to date information and also ask them for their thoughts, feelings and views on all these matters. There will be much to be learned on all sides and also a lot of work will need to be done by UKCP MOs to prepare for assessments. The UKCP have already started on this. I can respect some of what has been articulated by the Alliance but at present I remain totally unconvinced that opting out at this time will help anyone in any way whatsoever. It may cut us off from the one Government power and watchdog that we need most at this moment. The HPC could strengthen our legitimacy to critique more effectively what we all see is happening and that we know is a matter of grave concern for the whole nation.
The UKCP is the only multi-modal regulatory body and this has been a 'hard won' achievement with great personal investment and altruism from some of the noblest, most compassionate and socially responsible people in our field. So many people including some of those in the Alliance right now, have spent years working towards shared visionary aims. I agree that we need more two-way communication with registrants and HIPS will be writing to all their members and registrants after the consultation with the HPC, AGM and outcome with SFH. We need now to be very reflective, calm and related to think through all the issues together which is why I welcome respectful dialogue in order to navigate our way through what lies ahead. What we cannot afford to happen is that the field splits and polarises along the lines of 'for and against' as it will only serve the purposes of those who would like to see our amazingly collaborative human project disempowered. I believe we have learned something from all the years of 'sitting in the fire' with our many differences and this is currently to be tested. Let's hold on to all the work we have done together and move slowly, carefully, in consultation with everyone, sharing our knowledge, wisdom and experiences as we do so. What we have is just too important to our world for us not to manage this on behalf of everyone.
With love for all our psychotherapeutic approaches and respect for our shared ambition to protect their integrity,
Jocelyne Quennell
19th February 2009
| Congratulations to Dr Kate Wilkinson (Date Posted: 22/01/2009) |
| Kate Wilkinson (ex co-founding director of ScPTI) has a new book out; Psychotherapy Training and Practice: a Journey into the Shadow Side. More details about the book can be found at www.karnakbooks.com | Goodbye to Tom (Date Posted: 06/01/2009) |
| Tom, the Institute border collie died peacefully on January 5th. In dog years he was around 108 years old. After a lot of thought and some very kind offers of last resting places in Yorkshire, Toms ashes will be scattered in France in the fields of the farm (La Volee) where he loved to roam. | European Integrative Psychotherapy Conference 2009 (Date Posted: 26/12/2008) |
| The European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy in associatin with the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy are jointly hosting the next European conference in Manchester, UK, between November 6 and 8, 2009. For further details and booking visit: www.eaip-mip-conference.com | Congratulations yet again to Heward Wilkinson (Date Posted: 14/12/2008) |
| Once again congratulations are due to Heward on the publication of his new book; The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy. More details about the book can be found at www.karnacbooks.com | Congratultions to (Dr.) Ken Evans (Date Posted: 22/11/2008) |
| On November 14th, Ken passed his Viva leading to the award of Doctor of Psychotherapy in July next year. His thesis was 'Contributing to the Development of Psychotherapy as a Profession in the UK and Europe, 1987 - 2008'. All colleagues and friends at Scarborough extend their warmest congratulations. | A fine start to the new training year (Date Posted: 03/11/2008) |
| All training programmes run at ScPTI have now commenced for the training year 2008/09. | Criminal Records Check and Private Practice (Date Posted: 03/11/2008) |
| Members of the ScPTI who work in private practice are required to have a crb check in order to advertise their practice on the Scpti web site. We therefore assume that members who have not submitted a crb check do not work (or no longer work)in private practice. | Psychotherapy & Counselling Consortium (Date Posted: 03/10/2008) |
| The Psychotherapy & Counselling Consortium (PCC)was established in 2008 linking Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute with several other training centres across England, Wales and Europe, in a joint collaboration aiming to provide access to a wider range of education resources in Counselling and Psychotherapy. More details to follow shortly. | Congratulations (again) to Heward Wilkinson (Date Posted: 22/09/2008) |
| Once again congratulations are in order to Heward for being elected Chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy Section (HIPS) of the UKCP. It is understood that in this case 'congratulations' is spelt C-O-M-M-I-S-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-S! | Annual General Meeting 2008 (Date Posted: 12/07/2008) |
| The Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute held its annual general meeting on July 11th 2008. With a good turn out of members the meeting confirmed the continued progress of the Institute with increased numbers of trainees to all courses. The current position with regard to state regulation was discussed and support given to the several staff members who are investing a lot of voluntary time and energy to the work. The meeting approved trainee membership fees of £35 p.a, for those still attending training workshops and of £70 for those trainees who have finished training workshops (and who are therefore no longer responsible for course fees) but who are completing their accreditation requirements.
Looking beyond state regulation
the Institute forms a key part of a consortium of seven training centres across the UK offering sharing knowledge, resources and expertise to support continued growth and development in the future. | Congratulations to Heward Wilkinson (Date Posted: 29/04/2008) |
| The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy honoured Heward Wilkinson with a Honorary Fellowship in March 2008. Heward has given many years service to the UKCP and to the development of the profession of psychotherapy. The Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute (of which heard was Co-Founder) is proud to have Heward as a Full Teaching Member. | UKCP and Statutory Regulation (Date Posted: 17/03/2008) |
| The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy,at it's Annual General Meeting March 14-16, 2008, agreed to lobby the government for the generic title of Psychotherapist for all it's registrants and the generic title Psychotherapeutic Counsellor for registrants of the Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section of UKCP.
The HIPS Section agreed a Political Task Group for Statutory Regulation and Ken Evans is a member of this group. | New Counselling intake 'takes off' (Date Posted: 28/01/2008) |
| SCPTI held the first training weekend for the new first year intake on the now established Advanced Diploma in Relational Centred Counselling. Pete Lavender, Course Leader and Lydia Noor, tutor,both expressed their satisfaction at the high level of committment of the new group, declared they have one place still vacant and welcome an application. Deadline March 1st 2008. | National Gestalt Association (Date Posted: 28/01/2008) |
| On February 9th, 2008 the United Kingdom Association for Gestalt Therapy was launched in London,at a well attended meeting, thus providing an opportunity of a common location for the inclusion of all Gestalt Therapists in the UK. The UKAGT will represent the UK at the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) and play a significant role in processing the EAGT European Certificate in Gestalt Therapy.The Scarbrough Psychotherapy Training Institute has been involved in the planning of UKAGT (over three years) from the beginning and is delighted to support this new and important development in the history of Gestalt community in the UK. | Latest on Statutory Regulation (Date Posted: 28/01/2008) |
| The Health Professions Council meeting on December 13th, 2007 agreed to establish a counsellors and psychotherapists Professional Liaison Group (a Working Party) in July 2008 to consider the structure of the register, professional titles, the standards of proficiency, standards of education and training, post registration standards and grandparenting arrangements. The HPC will then make recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health on staturoty regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists.It is anticipated that regulation will then commence in 2009/10. | Congratulations to Pete Lavender (Date Posted: 27/10/2007) |
| The new Psychotherapeutic Section of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) elected Pete Lavender, Counselling Course Leader at Scarborough, as their new Chair at their meeting held in London on October 26th, 2007. Congratulations to Pete and best wishes for the work ahead from his colleagues at ScPTI. | Continued Professional Development Workshops (Date Posted: 20/10/2007) |
| Given the importance of continued professional development and to meet the requiremets of several professional associations, ScPTI will now issue an Attendance Certificate upon completion of a CPD workshop held at the Institute in Scarborough. Please ask the workshop facilitator for a signed copy on completion fo the workshop. | Honorary Fellowship for Ken Evans (Date Posted: 26/09/2007) |
| In September 2007 three people were each elected as a Fellow of the European Association for Integrative Pschotherapy, to honour their significant contribution to the development of Integrative Psychotherapy in Europe:
Dr Marvin Goldfried, USA,
Maria Gilbert of the Metanoia Institute, London and
Ken Evans of the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute. | AAGT Conference Manchester (Date Posted: 25/09/2007) |
| The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy is holding a conference (Borders and Bridges: Differentiation in Contact) in Manchester from July 23rd-27th 2008. Conference Web Site: www.aagt-manchester08.org | 9th European Gestalt Conference (Date Posted: 19/09/2007) |
| The 9th conference of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy was held in Athens at the beginning of September with a record 530 participants from 28 countries. The theme - Exploring Human Conflict - was addressed from many perspectives. Ken Evans gave an hour long key note address on the final day which received a standing ovation. The conference marks a significant turning point in the profession moving out and beyond the therapy room to explore ways in which psychotherapy may make a healthy contribution to the many social and political issues that challenge us all in the 21st century. | UKAGT Conference (Date Posted: 18/09/2007) |
| The United Kingdom Association for Gestalt Therapy (UKAGT) will be launched at the 'Integration and Opportunity' day conference. Gaie Houston and Malcolm Parlett will be guest presenters. Ken Evans will chair a Panel on 'Europe' in his capacity as President of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy Conference Details: Integration and Opportunity 9.30am - 4.30pm 9thFebruary 2008 Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Cost: £65 (students £50) including light lunch. For more details and booking visit www.ukagt.org.uk or write to: UKAGT Administrator, 8 Lancaster Avenue, Farnham, GU9 8JY | STOP PRESS New regulations on CPD on the way from UKCP (Date Posted: 01/08/2007) |
| The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy is revising its regulations regarding Continued Professional Development. The Board of Directors at ScPTI agreed on July 27th, 2007, to revise ScPTI's regulations with immediate effect, in line with those anticipated by UKCP.
The new regulations include clear guidance for therapists who wish to start work again after a sabbatical or period of non practice.
All therapists will need to demonstrate they have acquired a MINIMUM of 250 hours CPD wihtin a 5 year period and with a minimum of 20 hours in any one year.
When a therapist has been in practice for 5 years following registration or 5 years since a prevous re-accreditation then they need to contact the ScPTI office to discuss arrangements for re-accreditation. After statutory regulation (2009?) it is anticipated that the re-accreditation of therapists will continue to be the devolved to UKCP Member Organisations. | Annual General Meeting (Date Posted: 31/07/2007) |
| The annual general meeting of the Scarbrough Psychotherapy Training Institute took place on Saturday July 28th and there was a very good turn out. The agm was followed by a passionate and inspiring talk given by Lydia Noor on her therapeutic work in education. | Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (Date Posted: 26/06/2007) |
| Scarborugh Psychotherapy Training Institute are delighted to announce a formal collaboration with the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (WPP Ltd) whose Co-Directors are Melanie Ovens and Helen Rowlands. WPP will run the Institute's Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Gestalt Psychotherapy at their centre in the Welsh capital, Cardiff. Tel 02920 396998 | ScPTI to offer Training Courses in Nottingham (Date Posted: 09/06/2007) |
| From October this year, the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute will be offering people in the Midlands a chance to access some of our training courses in the Nottingham area. Under the name of E.M.P.A.C.T. (East Midlands Psychotherapy And Counselling Training) George Bassett will be running the Scarborough 4-year part time Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy, leading to UKCP registration.
Peter Lavender is offering a 'taster' in Psychotherapeutic Counselling - a 1-year part time Certificate course.
George will also be running courses associated with Creative Agendas Ltd., initially offering a 1-year part time Certificate in Active Creative Techniques in Group Work and Development. For further information contact George on 0115 9881232, or Peter on 0115 9200186. | UNESCO support for Gestalt Therapy (Date Posted: 02/05/2007) |
| UNESCO are helping to sponsor the conference of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy, to be held in Athens in early September this year. A representative of UNESCO will join the Panel on Human Rights & Social responsibility, chaired by EAGT President Ken Evans. As at May 1st, 399 participants have signed up for the conference. To book a place go to www.gestaltconferenceathens.gr
The EAGT web site is www.eagt.org | 'STOP PRESS' New Doctoral Programme (Date Posted: 13/01/2007) |
| Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute in collaboration with a European University has agreed, in principle, a doctoral programme. Validation is anticipated soon for first enrolment Autumn 2007. This will be the first truly cross cultural community of psychotherapy scholars. | Green Light for Residential Centre (Date Posted: 13/01/2007) |
| La Volee, the residential training centre used by the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute for summer workshops has finally received planning consent from the French authorities. Work has already commenced and should be completed by the summer of 2007. see also La Volee web site: www.euroips.com | Pete Lavender (Date Posted: 13/01/2007) |
| Congratulations to Pete Lavender, Head of Counselling Training at Scarborough, on being elected Vice-Chair of the Training Standards Committee of the UKCP Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section. | Second issue of research journal (Date Posted: 13/01/2007) |
| The second issue of the online European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy is due out shortly. Articles will cover: the shadow side of training institutes; ethics of interviewing; faith and psychotherapy; issues of race in therapy; death of a parent.
Watch this space for publication date. Also visit journal web site www.europeanresearchjournal.com | 9th European Gestalt Conference, Athens September 2007 (Date Posted: 13/01/2007) |
| The 9th conference of the European Association of Gestalt Therapy will take place in September 2007. The current President is Ken Evans, Director of Training at Scarborough.
Do join with 400-500 other Gestalt therapists from across Europe. To register and/or offer a workshop visit the conference web site www.gestaltconferenceathens.gr | Supervision in Serbia (Date Posted: 04/10/2006) |
| The Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute, in association with GPTI Malta is running a Diploma training in Supervision in Belgrade starting October 2006. The training group, facilitated by Ken Evans, will include trainees from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Malta. | Therapists Meet in Israel despite the war! (Date Posted: 10/07/2006) |
| The Israeli project planned for September 2006 and postponed because of the war in Lebanon went ahead anyway on an informal basis. Several therapists and members of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy decided to go in spite of the violence, including Ken Evans, Joanna Hewitt Taylor, Daan van Baalen and Peter Schulthess. Colleagues in Israel were so delighted they arranged a spontaneous gathering of some 40 professional people, Israeli Arabs and Jews and a member of PLO. The meeting confirmed the importance of dialogue, across differences and several personal accounts of the effect of the conflict upon people's lives were very moving. This is only the begining of this enagagement between Gestalt and Jewish and Arab colleagues. We acknowledge the humanity and determination of our colleagues living in very demanding conditions. The EAGT will now explore ways to continue the momentum of this special and contacful meeting. | Statutory Regulation (Date Posted: 10/07/2006) |
| The profession of Counselling and psychotherapy seems to be on target for state regulation in 2008. Currently the exisitng UKCP Sections are in the process of reorganising into independent Colleges which will be responsible for the quality assurance of training requirements and standards within each of it's Member Organisations. | New Research Journal for Psychotherapists (Date Posted: 28/02/2006) |
| In January 2006 a new research journal written for psychotherapists by psychotherapists was launched online. To get your access to the European Jouranl for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy go to: www.europeanresearchjournal.com. This new journal is published by the Anglo-Norwegian collaboration which comprises the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute and the Norwegian Gestalt Institute. Financial support for the initial launch was provided by both institutes and by the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy and the European Association for Gestalt Therapy. The web site and journal were designed by David Evans of Kontaxt. | Conference in London and Award of European Certificate of Integrative Psychotherapy (Date Posted: 28/02/2006) |
| At the Integrative Psychotherapy conference held in London over the weekend of 10-11 March 2006 the European Certificate of Integrative Psychotherapy was awarded for the first time to integrative psychotherapists from several European nations. Ken Evans, the current Registrar of EAIP, presented the certificates alongside the current President Panos Asimakis. The conference was organised by the United Kingdom Association for Psychotherapy Integration and by the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy. For the web site addresses of these two associations please see our Links page. | Ken Evans supports Gestalt Therapists in Poland (Date Posted: 28/02/2006) |
| At the meeting of the European Association for Psychotherapy in Vienna, February 2006, Gestalt therapists from Poland secured access to the European Certificate of Psychotherapy through the intervention of Ken Evans in his role as President of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT). This was a good example of collaboration between the EAP and EAGT which overcame unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions in Poland. | Trainee Therapists Online (Date Posted: 28/02/2006) |
| Trainees of ScPTI are now called 'Candidates in Training' in line with UKCP practice. Please view our new Trainee Therapists page for further details. | Accredited Therapists (Date Posted: 10/11/2005) |
| Our 'Accredited Therapists' page lists Psychotherapists and Counsellors who are SCPTI Members and are accredited to practice Psychotherapy and/or Counselling. | 2006 International Conference in Japan (Date Posted: 03/10/2005) |
| The Third International Conference of the Asian Federation for Psychotherapy and 2006 International Congress of Psychotherapy in Japan took place August 28 - September 1, 2006 (5 days) in Tokyo, Japan. The conference was sponsored by the Science Council of Japan in collaboration with The World Council for Psychotherapy and The Asian Federation for Psychotherapy. Details at: www.convention.co.jp/06icptj | 9th European Conference of Gestalt Therapy (Date Posted: 03/10/2005) |
| 'Exploring Human Conflict' 6th-9th September 2007 in Athens, Greece. This Conference is run under the auspices of EAGT. Information about the conference will be available from February 2006 at www.gestaltconferenceathens.gr. | 5th World Congress for Psychotherapy (Date Posted: 03/10/2005) |
| The next World Congress for Psychotherapy (WCP2008) will be held in Beijing, China on October 12-15, 2008. The Congress will invite internationally renowned psychotherapists as Keynote Speakers and State-of-the Art Lecturers, representing different fields of psychotherapy, counselling, and related disciplines. The Congress also plan to have a large number of workshops, invited symposia, thematic oral sessions, as well as interactive poster sessions. The Congress invite your participation, either in proposing an invited symposium or workshop, presenting a paper by taking part in a poster session, or being present. Further information to follow at WCP's website: www.wcp2008.org | Printer Friendly Pages (Date Posted: 25/09/2005) |
| Our web site pages now have an additional option enabling them to be viewed in a printer friendly format. Just click the 'Printer Friendly View' link at the top right of our pages. | Web Site Update (Date Posted: 23/09/2005) |
| The SCPTI web site has undergone a major update today. The site content remains essentially the same although many of the page names have been altered so you may need to update your bookmarks. The changes were undertaken so we can expand and alter our web site content more easily and quickly. This will help us to ensure we provide you with the lastest information. The CPD workshops page has been altered so our visitors can choose how they wish to browse for workshops and short courses. Other more significant changes to content will be made over the next few days with the addition of new pages. David Evans - Fri. 23rd September 2005 | Application Forms (Date Posted: 30/04/2005) |
| Updated application and reference forms are available in PDF format for printing. Please follow the 'Application Forms' link from the menu. |