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Shadow Health Minister Anne Milton MP called a convention of counselling and psychotherapy stakeholders Westminster Hall November 2nd 2009 |
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Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011 Final PLG Meeting The Health Professions Council faces a Judicial Review of their failure to observe due process in their approach to regulating counselling and psychotherapy Game, Set... and Match? The Realities and Inequities of Positional Power eIpnosis editorial Word .doc .mp3 November 3 2010 Righteous Regulation? The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence [CHRE] began promoting its now privatized services yesterday (in the House of Lords). Will the psychological therapies ask them in? Read here a detailed outline of how the CHRE sees Right Regulation... See also Janet Low visits a Council meeting of the CHRE video, 14 mins. October 19th HPC Professional Liaison Group [PLG] meeting. The meeting featured input from a resuscitated Psychological Professions Action Group [PPAG], (readers may recall that a previous version fell apart in 2008 when the BPS defected to the HPC) The PPAG is a trade association grouping that appears to include the UKCP, BACP, BCP, CPCAB and BABCP. They had produced a document... |
| An Education in Misconduct - The UKCP meet the HPC September 24, 2010 Report by Dr Bruce Scott Word .doc |
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Principled Non-Compliance and Alternative Professional Accountability - Therapy Today October: 'in 2011, BACP will be launching a new register for non-accredited members. Accredited members will continue to be registered in the UKRCP (United Kingdom Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) whilst non-accredited members will have the opportunity to join our proposed register for counsellors and psychotherapists. The entry standards and processes for registration will be published in either the November or December issue of Therapy Today'. |
| Briefing / Care Professions Council - name, remit and ethos - implications for the psychological therapies a spoof that presents a detailed framework for civic accountability driven more by client needs than by professional or government agendas more |
| Abolish the HPC This item on the YourFreedom HM Government website ran to 21,000 words before it closed. A snapshot of the consultation taken at the end of August 2010 provides telling testimony of the HPC's unfitness for purpose |
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cbtish 'If only...' suggests that first year IAPT results were effective in only 4% of referrals. |
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Arms Length Bodies Axed. Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy Against State Regulation NEWSLETTER Updates on the current state of play... especially the opening stage of the Judicial Review of the HPC's regulatory process URGENT On December 10th 2009 when the HPC Council met, as expected, they ignored the tirade of opposition contained in the 1100+ submissions to the recent 'consultation' and subsequently recommended to the Department of Health that the government regulate counselling and psychotherapy. HPC regulation has hitherto relied on the wholesale transfer of registrant organizations membership databases. The list of transferred members becomes an asset used by the HPC to send out registration requests. In the event of non-registration, the registrant details stay on file with the HPC. If you oppose state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy, or are merely ambivalent about it, it is time to press your organization for this freedom of choice. And soon. The HPC will begin contacting organisations holding voluntary registers before the end of the year so as to 'assess' the register compilation workload. This 'database cleaning' is distinct from the final transfer. However the accrediting bodies, already deep in collaboration with the HPC may be minded to short circuit members' democratic rights and pass on their members details to the HPC. |
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Cognitive Behavioural Kultur IAPT Outcomes Toolkit .pdf, 84pp A Response to the HPC's July 2009 PLG Recommendations for the Regulation of Counsellors July 2009, The Health Professions Council opened a 'Consultation' on the Recommendations by the Professional Liaison Group [PLG] including the draft Standards of Proficiency specifying registrants' legal obligations. See reviews below. Nine of the reviews are available in book form from lulu.com: Compliance? Ambivalence? Rejection? Nine Papers Challenging The Health Professions Council 2009 proposals for the state regulation of the psychological therapies Edited by Richard House and Denis Postle SCORPIOn RISING Draft HPC Standards of Proficiency – a personal critique from a humanistic perspective By John Gloster-Smith, MAHPP HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL CONSULTATION The PLG's Proposals for the Statutory Regulation of Counselling & Psychotherapy SUBMISSION OF EVIDENCE from Psychoanalytic community reviews Introduction PLG Recommendations HPC Standards Vorauseilender Gehorsam (anticipatory obedience)
Regulatory excellence? Really? De-Railing SR - WAR OF THE WORLDS: eIpnosis Editor 'Named and Shamed' - Vichy Revisited Seven Lords WAR OF THE WORLDS: Ambivalent about state regulation of the psychological therapies? Browse these suggestions The British Psychoanalytic Council and the Health Professions Council: Reflections on Legitimacy and Reputation The eIpnosis report on the historic December 4 Professional Liaison Group HPC meeting produced a 'smokescreen of affront' from the BPC and the HPC that avoided engagement with our frank 'truth-telling' about this shocking meeting. Read what they said in this eIpnosis response Administering the Kiss of Death - A Vichy Moment The inaugural meeting of the Health Professions Council Professional Liaison Group for Counselling and Psychotherapy Regulation. December 4 2008 eIpnosis REPORT Refusenik Therapists Defy Health Professions Council An Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy Against State Regulation launched January 12th DETAILS Protecting the Client Experience A Catastrophe Theory Map of Civic Accountability in the Psychological Therapies Denis Postle 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 Messages from Taxonomist Heaven The Interminable Terminological Confusion of Statutory and State Regulation The UKCP and Tick Box Regulation – an Arranged Marriage. Counselling in Primary Care - Make-over mania? 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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Client Voices bringbackourjoy A mother tells of the downside of HPC Regulation VIDEO Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust Userwatch An Independent Occasionally Very Satired (And Even Wicked Yes Wicked) View Of Mental Health NHS Issues As Well As Those Further Afield PSYCHOFRAUD Revealing the Truth About Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Counselling and CBT Writhe Safely Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. ~ Tagore 'health care... capitalism's crowning clusterfuck'. |
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| Nine Papers Challenging The Health Professions Council 2009 proposals for the state regulation of the psychological therapies Edited by Richard House and Denis Postle |
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HPCWatchDog The Health Professions Council Regulatory Process Under Scrutiny - Janet Low Essential - First hand accounts of direct experience of the HPC in action Unintended negative side effects of HPC regulation Text of message sent to 35 members of the House of Lords ahead of their May 5th 2009debate on the Amendment to the Section 60 Order regulating practitioner psychologists Excellent detailed account of the downside of HPC regulation briefing by Arthur Musgrave Unintended Consequences a series of interviews produced by eIpnosis associate editor Psychoanalyst Janet Low, plus a related Blog Health Professions Council Call for Ideas An archive of fourteen individual and institutional responses Health Professions Council select Professional Liaison Group [PLG] List of members Health Professions Council Details of a meeting, with HPC's Mark Seale and the College of Psychoanalysts (Darian Leader and Jacques China) are here Notes of a meeting with HPC's Mark Seale and Arthur Musgrave, Andrew Samuels and Nick Totton here Health Professions Council Special #3 eIpnosis reports on iatrogenic damage due to the HPC's impermeability and unfitness for purpose. The Health Professions Council voted 13th December 2008 to 'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details Skills for Health and National Occupational Standards for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy by Arthur Musgrave As a humanistic therapist I'm not well placed to comment in detail on National Occupational Standards for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapies. I did, however, become quite involved in the drafting of the precursors to NOS, National Vocational Qualifications [NVQs], back in the mid 1990s. There are some useful parallels. more The State Regulation Train is Leaving the station... or is the Station Leaving the Train? report on the June 10 2008 Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting State Regulation: Illusory, Unethical and Hazardous - Eleven Good reasons to To Oppose SR Guy Gladstone Attempts to freeze-dry love continue eIpnosis EDITORIAL February 26 2008 more House of Lords 5 February 2007 Lord Alderdice, later to be chair of two key Skills for Health Reference Groups, on why the Health Professions Council isn't 'fit for purpose'. '...Why this dissatisfaction with the HPC? The membership of the HPC is primarily concerned with those who treat physical illnesses, and the way that they deal with training and skills is much less variable...' more REPORT: The Savoy Conference: The NHS and the Psychological Therapies REVIEW: Engineering Happiness - Internet online recordings of The Savoy Conference, includes links and excerpted transcripts COMMENT: Ideology and the NHS: the perversion of Science, Practice, and Policy The Old Savoy Declaration The New Savoy Declaration Revision 1.01 Start the day with a smile! The Sav**oy Declaration VIDEO IAPT/CBT nexus Read Recent press criticism of the IAPT/CBT nexus by Professor Andrew Samuels and an extensive response from the BABCP. Ipnosis features the correspondence, an Editorial, a Guest Editorial from Janet Low and a link to Andrew Samuels collection of CBT Articles and Documents. |
