Protecting the Client Experience
A Catastrophe Theory Map of Civic Accountability in the Psychological Therapies
Denis Postle
The inaugural meeting of the Health Professions Council Professional Liaison Group for Counselling and Psychotherapy Regulation. December 4 2008
Administering the Kiss of Death - A Vichy Moment
eIpnosis REPORT
Health Professions Council Sheds New Light on Symptom Removal
Ignoring Dissent Creates Assent
Documents which the HPC's Professional Liaison Group [PLG] had in front of them at their inaugural meeting on December 4 2008 eIpnosis REVIEW
The Interminable Terminological Confusion of Statutory and State Regulation
Regulator and regulated have recently rediscovered 'statutory' as a smokescreen for their confluence with state control.
Guy Gladstone
Messages from Taxonomist Heaven
An account, with detailed Freedom of Information Act evidence, of scandalous ethical distortion and values incongruence in the Skills for Health National Occupational Standards [NOS] for Counselling and Psychotherapy development process
eIpnosis REVIEW
The UKCP and Tick Box Regulation an Arranged Marriage.
UKCP Conference: Transforming Times - UKCP at the Heart of the Profession and the Wider World of the 21st Century? November 15 2008
A valiant if flawed attempt by the UKCP to breathe life into a profession facing capture and dissolution eIpnosis conference report
Counselling in Primary Care - Make-over mania?
eIpnosis in conversation with a Primary Care counsellor
'....The new proposals are actually getting rid of the term 'counsellor' and people are to be called 'psychological therapists' and what we understand, and certainly what has happened in other areas, is that existing counsellors have been required to undergo further training, sometimes one day a week, in a university for a year in CBT, no matter how experienced they may be or no matter how well trained they may be...' more
Validity In the Psychological Therapies - Why Love Provides a Better Benchmark Than Science eIpnosis video 26 mins. Video | DVD £5 post free .
Autumn Special from Wesley Tantrum
As the state prepares to administer its kiss of death to the psy field, psy folk are occupying one or other of three positions. These positions are most readily grasped ornithologically:
VULTURES are getting ready for the pickings
OSTRICHES are keeping their heads down/in the sand
ROOSTERS are telling everyone to wake up
And there are three further species, though one is extinct. Read on
Towards Post-professional Practice: Principled Non-Compliant Practitionership in a Post-Regulation Era
by Richard House
'...to what extent can we preserve a radical countercultural space in a psychotherapy field which becomes increasingly professionalised and subject to the audit culture’s worst excesses?' more
Interview with counsellor Rose Budd,
eIpnosis 'Fitness to Practise Consultant' Charles Layton tries to give voice to the passive majority of practitioners who appear to be aquiescing in the introduction of SR. more
Troubled Times In A Paperweight Palatinate
Wesley Tantrum reports from the UKCP Court, Buxton, March 2008
Overview of what SR entails and outline of what is at stake
- Economics - Zeitgeist - Responsibilities - and Contradictions & Anomalies - . more
Tim Brown sends this one page account of why SR is problematic to people who quiz him about it. more
Response to Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards, Roger Litten, Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom June 2008
'We have had enough...' RESIGNATION FROM THE UKCP Join the list of practitioners across all modalities who have decided to resign, or intend to resign from their UKCP registration.
Why Analytic Practitioners Should Say No To The HPC by Ian Parker, CFAR
Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards - A Response from The Psychoanalytic Consortium
STOP SR List of 360+ practitioners who reject present plans for state regulation of the psychological therapies. The list is still open, sign up.
It’s not too late to halt state regulation - petition 1200+ signatures - sign up
Soul Women Natalie Brooks on how 'for the passionate woman politics is dull, dry and devoid of soul'.
UKCP March AGM report by Ian Parker, CFAR
Submission to the recent BPS consultation
Guy Gladstone
Reference Group Membership list,and 'Project Infrastructure' for the Skills for Health (a subsection of Skills for Business) task of writing National Occupational Standards [NOS] for the Psychological Therapies.
Guess who heads the list... Lord John Alderdice... representing, apparently, the House of Lords.
Consultation (now closed) on the State Regulation of Psychologists
21 December - 22 March. EDITORIAL, REVIEW and CONSULTATION DOCUMENT DOWNLOADS
An Alarming Development The Health Professionals Council Road Map for the Statutory Regulation of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom
Roger Litten - Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UK
UKCP, BACP, BABCP and BPS - announce 'MOCK' Application for New Professions Membership of the HPC
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