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Mr, Martin,Adam,AFT
Ms, Karen,Ainsbury, IGA
Ms, Helen,Alexander, FIP
Dr, Diana Isabel,Alvis Palma, KCC
Dr, Diana Isabel,Alvis Palma, KCC
Ms, Kaushika,Amin, CAPP
Ms, Josephine,Anderson, SPCRC
Mrs, Carole,Archer, MET
Mr, John,Ashworth, SEA
Mr, Bo Fredrik,Ask,ARBS
Ms, Joanne Marie,Austin, SPTI
Ms, Shelagh Mary,Austin, BPA
Mr, Colin Derek,Ayers,AFT
Mr,Ainslie, Baker, MET
Mrs, Maryann, Barone-Chapman, RE.V
Mrs, Suzanne, Bergne, GAPS
Mrs, Denise Bernadette, Bevan,AFT
Ms, Donna Anne, Billington, SEA
Mrs, Sarah, Bishop, GASW
Dr, Julia Louise, Bland,AFT
Ms, Charlie, Blowers, CCPE
Mrs, Gail, Bradbury,AFT
Mr, Jeremy, Brooks, CTP
Mr, Peter Owen, Brown,AFT
Mr, David James, Browne, NLPtCA
Mr, Chris, Burgess, MC
Ms, Carolyn, Burnett,AFT
Mr, Stephen, Bushell, GAPS
Ms, Zenobi, Bynoe, RE.V
Mr, Noel Patick, Cahill, FPC
Mr, Fergus Petrie, Cairns, CCBP
Mrs, Claudia, Camhi,AFT
Ms, Maureen Mary, Campbell, CCPE
Mrs, Dorothy Jane, Campbell, UPCA
Ms, Maureen Mary, Campbell, CCPE
Mr, Roy, Cheetham, BABCP
Mrs, Denise, Cheshire, MC
Mrs, Denise, Cheshire, MC
Mrs,Alice Kwok Lai, Cheung
Boddy,AFT
Mr, Craig, Chigwedere, BABCP
Mr, Barry James, Christie, CAPP
Dr, Irene, Cioffi Whitfield, IGAP
Dr,Andrea, Cohen,AFT
Ms, Liz, Coldridge, NWIDP
Ms,Valentina, Coppellotti,AFT
Dr, Edgar Agrela, Correia, SEA
Ms, (Margaret) Louise, Cottingham, MET
Mrs,Angela, Cousens,ARBS
Mr, Clinton Clifford, Coveney, CAPP
Ms, Marion, Cox, CFET
Ms, Felicity, Cupit,AFT
Ms, Beverley Ann, D'arcy, UPCA
Mrs, Kirsty Lawrie, Darwent,AFT
Ms, Lesley, Davies, CCBP
Mr, Nick, Davis, MET
Dr,Alison Heather, Davis, MET
Ms,Tandy, Deane-Gray, RE.V
Ms, Paula, Deshe, BABCP
Ms,Tazim, Dhanani, CCPE
Ms, Sandra Ruth, Dickson, NLPtCA
Mrs, Julie Anne, Dilallo, UPCA
Mrs, Margaret, Dimmock,AFT
Mrs, Emma, Dirken-Adebayo,AGIP
Ms, Rhoda, Dorndorf, HIP
Ms, Dany, Dubois, UPCA
Ms, Jane Elizabeth, Dudley, IPS
Mr, Laurence James, Duffy, IPS
Ms, Caroline, Duggan, CCBP
Mr, Christopher, Easton, IFT
Mrs, Pamela, Eccleston, BABCP
Dr, Philippa Margaret, Evans, CSP
Mr, Colin, Eveleigh, BABCP
Ms, Lynne, Farr, NGP
Ms, Ourania, Founta, FIC
Ms, Lyn, French, IPSS
Mr, Camilo, Gallardo, GAPS
Mrs,Angela Elaine, Gardner, IFT
Mr, Giorgio, Giaccardi,AJA
Ms, Deborah, Gibbons, UPCA
Mrs, Sheila Mary, Gill, CPC
Miss, Barbara, Godoy, SEA
Mr,Vaughn, Goldschagg, MC
Mr, Robert, Goodsell, UPCA
Mr, James Stanley, Gordon, BPA
Mrs, Jacki, Grant, SPCRC
Mrs, Esra, Gurkan, UPCA
Mrs, Norma Anne, Hall, FIC
Ms, Fiona, Hancock, RE.V
Mrs,Sharon,Hannah,IGA
Ms, Julie, Harding, RE.V
Mr, Gary Malcolm, Hartley-Trigg, CFET
Mr,Andrew, Harvey, BABCP
Ms, Kay Marian, Hedges, GAPS
Dr, Jason Neil, Hepple,ACAT
Mrs, Marilyn Margaret, Hill, RE.V
Mrs, Christine Anne, Hillam, SCPTI
Ms, Biggi, Hoffman, BPA
Mr, Michael, Hogben, IPS
Mrs, Lynda, Howell, ITA
Ms, Roxana, Howkins, ITA
Mrs, Pamela Joan, Hughes, BABCP
Ms, Cynthia, Ingram, FIC
Mrs, Nonie, Insall, FIP
Ms, Elizabeth Margaret, Jarman Day, IPSS
Mrs, Olwen Elisabeth, Jeffs,AFT
Mrs, Julie, Jeffs, KI
Ms, Rukiya, Jemmott,AFT
Mrs,Alison, Jensen, MET
Dr, Elaine, Kasket, SEA
Mrs, Susan Pauline, Kenny,ACAT
Mrs, Regina Maria, King, SEA
Mr, Rupert Edward David, King, SEA
Ms, Sian Elizabeth, Kinrade,AFT
Mrs, Catherine, Kirwin, PET
Mrs, Martha, Knox-Forrester, MET
Mr, Patrick, Kuhn,AFT
Ms, Francessca Lea, La Nave, UPCA
Ms, Julie Anne, Lacy, BPA
Mr, James David, Lee, IFT
Mr, Simon Harcourt, Leftwich,AFT
Ms, Elissa, Lewis, FIC
Mrs, Laura, Lockhart, BABCP
Ms, Chuey Yoke, Loh, KI
Dr, Charlie, Lowe,AFT
Ms, Daphne Lindsey Frances, Lucan,AFT
Mr, Donald, MacKechnie, NCHP
Ms, Sylvia Elizabeth, Mann, CCPE
Mrs, Hayley Nicole, Marshall, ITA
Ms, Susan Joy, Martin, MC
Ms, Lib, Martin, KI
Ms,Anthea Sarah Delaney, Mason,AIP
Mrs, Jacqueline Louise, Matthams, IGA
Ms, Julia, Matthews,AFT
Ms, Delia Louise, Matthews, CCPE
Mr, James, McAllister, CCPE
Ms, Justine, McCarthy, MC
Mrs, Bilgi, McDermott, MC
Mr, Hugh, McFadden, BABCP
Mr, Joe, McGrann,AFT
Ms, Grace Lesley, McLean, CTP
Miss, Lucy, Messervy, KI
Mr, Ben, Midworth, MC
Mr,Andrew John, Millard, BABCP
Ms, Mariam, Miller,AFT
Mr, Paul, Mitchell, SPTI
Mrs,Yvonne, Moore, NGP
Ms, Rachel, Morgan, KI
Miss,Vanessa, Murphy, CTP
Ms, Deborah, Myhill, MET
Mrs, Jyoti, Nanda, SEA
Sr., Brigid Anne, Noonan, IGA
Mrs, Lesley, Novelle,AFT
Mr, Colm Francis, O'Keeffe,AFT
Mr, Richard, Oliver, BPA
Mrs, Omoyemisi, Oloyede, NAFSI
Ms,Vivien, Osrin, IFT
Mrs, Jennifer E Sylvia, Overy, CPC
Dr, Sonia, Oyervides Garcia, IGA
Mr, Stephen James, Paddock, IGA
Mrs, G Faye, Page, SCPTI
Mrs, Catherine Laura, Pain, NCHP
Mrs,Valerie Ann, Parker, CPC
Mrs, Elayne, Paz, CCPE
Ms, Patricia Aracelli, Pena, IPS
Mr, David (Alexander Durant),
Petherbridge, MC
Mr, Mark Stephen, Phillips, AFT
Miss,Abigail, Pleasant, SPTI
Mrs, Margaret Jean Havelock, Preston,
SPTI
Mrs, Judy, Rathbone,AFT
Ms, Patricia Anne, Reid, CFET
Mr, Darryl John, Richards, SPCRC
Mrs, Jan, Rose, BABCP
Ms, Esmee, Rotmans, CCPE
Mr, Rainer, Schiedel, MET
Mrs, Daniela, Schoeller, IPS
Ms, Sandra Mcinnes, Scott, NHPC
Ms, Margaret Rose, Scott, CFET
Ms, Fozia, Shah, BABCP
Ms, Rubina, Shah,AFT
Mrs, Judith Hodd, Shaham, CCBP
Ms,Angela Margaret, Shanly,AFT
Mr, Hopeton Earl, Shaw, SPCRC
Rev., John, Shiels, KI
Mr, Paul, Sibson, NGP
Ms, Lucy, Sicks, SPCRC
Mrs, Fiona, Simmonds,AFT
Mrs, Sam (Anita Jane), Smith,AFT
Miss, Caroline, Smith, KCC
Dr, Daniel, Sousa, SEA
Ms, Nora, St. Louis, NAFSI
Mrs, Elizabeth, Steenburgh Coleman, HIP
Ms, Christine, Stupples,AFT
Ms, Helen, Sugrue, HIP
Mrs, Ursula Emma Elisabeth,
Sunderland,AFT
Ms, Charity,Tawodzera,AFT
Catherine Anne,Taylor, NGP
Ms, Bathmavathy,Thailan, IPS
Mrs, Susan Hilary,Thomas, FIC
Mr, Simon David Rees,Thomas, STTDP
Mrs, Carol Ann,Titley, MC
Ms,Annette,Todd, NHPC
Ms,Adele Louise,Towsey,AFT
Ms, Josephine Lucette,Tucker,AFT
Ms, Sarah,Tucker, IGA
Dr, Paola,Valerio, CAP
Mrs, Joanne,Waine, NLPtCA
Mr, Mark,Wake, NLPtCA
Mr, David Michael,Wakely, UPCA
Ms, Deborah Lynn,Wander, KI
Dr, Joanne,Warren, IFT
Mr, Rod,Watson, KI
Dr, Geoffrey Douglas,Watts, FIC
Ms, Sheila Mary,Webb, PET
Mr, Peter,Wood, SITE
Ms, Deborah Michelle,Wortman, ITA
Mr, Anthony, Wragg, SPCRC
Ms, Sharon Constance,Young, PCP
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The Candidates
in Training Scheme
The front cover of the Autumn issue of The
Psychotherapist is dedicated to UKCP Candidates
in Training who attended the Congress ‘Days of
Shaking: Psychotherapy in a Time of Change’
in July. We were delighted that so many students
chose to further their academic studies by
participating in the event. The students fully
embraced all that the event had to offer by taking
part in a healthy variety of stimulating workshops,
creative breaks and a fantastic social programme.
UKCP hosted a drinks reception to celebrate the
success of the Candidates in Training Scheme to
date. Students took this opportunity to network
with their contemporaries and continue debates
over a glass of wine.
UKCP is seeking to develop the UK psychotherapy
profession by supporting and developing the next
generation of psychotherapists. Students who have
committed to a UKCP psychotherapy training and
have commenced clinical practice under supervision
are now provided with the chance to join an informal
network where they can source information on
training opportunities and career development.
This landmark scheme allows students the
opportunity to align their name to UKCP, by
authorizing the use of ‘UKCP CiT’ on publicity and
the psychotherapist editorial
Editorial Spring 2006
Contents
Editorial / Introduction
P. 3
Reflections on Some Experiences
of the July Congress:
marketing material used to promote their
professional services.
Ten UKCP Professional Conferences P. 4
Benefits of the scheme include:
Creative Break - Art Therapy Session P. 5
•
Social Dreaming with Laurie Slade.
Can you do therapy in the media
with Brett Kahr
P. 5
Music, a thread running through
the Congress
P. 6
Being able to put “UKCP Candidate in
Training” on their CV, promotional literature
and correspondence.
•
Discounted rates at certain UKCP events
such as the Professional Conference
•
Free issues of UKCP’s quarterly newsletter,
The Psychotherapist
•
A 10% discount off your first year’s
registration fee with UKCP after qualifying
as a psychotherapist.
The Central Services Group of UKCP is looking
to recruit two Candidates in Training
representatives to help with the development of
services for students. If you are interested in
discussing the role, please contact Alex WalkerMcClimens on: Tel:
020 7014 9966
Email: [email protected]
Therapeutic language and
the mutuality of meaning
P. 4/5
Launch of UKCP
& Karnac Partnership
P. 6/7
Trauma and Farewell:
The last day of Conference
How do I know what I should
do now? The role of the Section
Ethics Committee
P. 9
Assessment and Accreditation
of UKCP Training Programmes
in Psychotherapeutic Counselling P. 10/12
P. 13/16
Psychotherapeutic Counselling Counsellors
joining UKCP - good gracious however did that happen
P. 17
Events Diary
Christine Lister-Ford
Vice Chair
My article describes the history of how the section
came into being, to give it a context in the overall
development of UKCP. Sarah Collins writes on the
Training Standards, which the section has agreed
and Jennie MacNamara illustrates how these are
integrated into the Assessment Procedures to join
the Section. Lesley Murdin covers the other essential
the existence of Psychotherapeutic Counselling
and its place in UKCP.
Psychotherapeutic
Counselling Section. I would like to take this
element of any Section - its Ethical Framework.
concludes with a very moving description of the
conclusion to the conference.
opportunity to thank Lisa Wake, Chair of UKCP for
her support and encouragement in establishing the
Section, which she describes
in her introduction.
Heward Wilkinson in his article “Counselling,
Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapeutic Counselling:
Why a Third Category? Differences and
interweavings!” discusses the theoretical base for
Finally, Lisa Wake, Cairns Clery, Cathy Dunbar, Liebe
Klug and Pippa Weitz report on the very successful
UKCP and EAP Congress ‘Days of Shaking:
Psychotherapy in a Time of Change’ and Heward
Joan Foster
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Counselling, Psychotherapy,
and Psychotherapeutic Counselling:
Why a Third Category?
Differences and interweavings
P. 8/9
Book Review
It is with great
pleasure that I
welcome you to
this edition of The
Psychotherapist,
which is focussing
on the new
P.18
Training Standards Who needs them?
P. 19/21
Conferences & Services
P. 22/27
Introduction
I am delighted to
welcome you to this
edition of The
Psychotherapist,
edited by Joan Foster,
Chair of the
Psychotherapeutic
Counselling Section.
The Section has worked hard to develop and
maintain standards of Psychotherapeutic
Counselling, and to enable a pathway for
professionals who value UKCP accreditation
as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
teleconferences with Joan, Heward Wilkinson,
Del Loewenthal, Marlyn Donovan, Adrian Rhodes
Psychotherapeutic Counselling will continue
and Lesley Murdin as we worked on developing
the necessary processes to bring the Section into
being, while at the same time adhering to the
This edition sees Joan Foster, Jennie McNamara,
principles of UKCP.
as we see the Section move towards College status.
Sarah Collins and Lesley Murdin provide
information on the development, standards
and processes within the Section, while Heward
This work has continued and the Section which
provides us with a debate on the differences
is now welcoming its first registrants, has also
between Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic
seen the development of a Psychotherapeutic
Counselling, something that I am certain will
Counsellor register administered by the
continue in the healthy format that we have seen
Registration Board to sit alongside the
over the last few years.
Psychotherapy register. The Section has actively
supported our work with external agencies,
Managing Editor
Alex Walker-McClimens
I was fortunate to be involved in the infancy of the
Section and (fondly?!) recall the early morning
particularly the Government, and the development
Lisa Wake
of training standards and competencies for
Chair
Extraordinary General Meeting 4th November 2006
Guest Editor
Joan Foster
Notice of Meeting and of Election of Officers
An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held from 10.00 -16.00 on Saturday 4th November 2006 at King’s College,Waterloo Campus,
Editorial Board
Lisa Wake
Christine Lister-Ford
Valerie Tufnell
Franklin Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN.
The focus of this meeting will be the continued restructuring of the UKCP to ensure that it is fit for the purpose of statutory regulation, further to
the governance changes approved at the AGM in March this year.
Delegates wishing to register for the Extraordinary General Meeting on 4th November should contact Alex Walker McClimens at the UKCP Office.
Email [email protected] or telephone 0207 014 9966.
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Reflections on Some Experiences of the July Congress
Ten UKCP Professional Conferences
This summer,
the 10th UKCP
Professional
Conference,
in Cambridge,
also hosted the
14th congress
of the European
Association
for Psychotherapy.
Brian Keenan's Opening Speech
The speakers were challenging and informative,
the discussions lively, and the workshops, parallel
presentations, and creative break sessions offered
a wide range of opportunities for delegates to
engage with the theme of the Congress: ‘Days
of Shaking’: Psychotherapy in a Time of Change.
Cambridge was a glorious venue, especially in
the warm sunny days of July.
I want to thank all those involved: delegates;
speakers; presenters; the stall holders (and Karnac
in particular for their support of the Congress);
the members of the Academic and Scientific
Committee (who made the difficult choices
from the wealth of workshop and presentations
offered); the UKCP staff, especially Alex Walker
McClimens and Karen McClure - and the
conference organising committee members.
Between them, Heward Wilkinson in the chair
of the conference committee, Cairns Clery, Liebe
Klug, Adrian Rhodes, and Jenny Corrigall, put in
an enormous amount of thought and planning
and hard work over the two years of preparation.
The Professional Conference emerged as a
proposal by Dorothy Hamilton, (then Hon.
Secretary of UKCP), who had argued successfully
that one of the constitutional aims of the new
UKCP should be “to encourage the exchange
and understanding of the different theories and
practices within psychotherapy”. Heward backed
her up in extending the constitutional aims in this
way, and in 1995 the first Professional Conference
was held in Warwick.
Since then, at least one out of Heward, Jenny
and Cairns has been involved in the organising
committees of each of the 10 Professional
Conferences. The past four conferences have
benefited from all three working on the
committees. This is particularly worth mentioning
as this year they all stand down. I want therefore
to extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation
for all that Heward, Jenny and Cairns have
contributed to UKCP, both within the Professional
Conferences, but also in their own inimitable ways
in other areas. Each of them has contributed to
the Conferences in their own way, encouraging,
cajoling and on occasions nagging the Board to
ensure we have conferences of which we can be
proud. I am sure the organisation will miss their
contribution and would hope that we can continue
to see their involvement in other areas over the
next few years.
Lisa Wake,
Chair of UKCP
Therapeutic language and the mutuality of meaning
An impression of Professors Tom Andersen and
John Shotter’s plenary presentation “Don’t make
theories, don’t explain, just see, hear and be responsive
- your job is ‘to go on’ ”
As Bill Viola’s phenomenal video art installations
show, slow motion gives us time to see, hear and
go on. It enhances our perception and expands
our consciousness. Tom Andersen is a deceptively
slow-moving, slow-speaking mountain man from
Norway. It takes time to climb mountains. Twenty
four hours before the Days of Shaking conference
he had taken ten hours walking up a mountain
in the north of Norway with his son and his
grandson and ten hours coming down again.
He just went on. He did not hurry. ‘I do very
little, Cairns’, he told me slowly, craggily, like a
mountain, this man who radically altered the
perspectives of family and systemic psychotherapists
across the world. John Shotter in contrast,Tom’s
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co-presenter, is a polymath whose breadth of
academic learning is itself mountainous, but this
has not compromised his ability to communicate
what is important and set in a proper context.
“Perhaps paradox consists
in relative positionings”
For all his knowledge, John dwells in no ivory
tower high on some remote epistemological
fastness. He has a history of radical anti-war
activism, of rolling his sleeves up and seeing
and hearing how he must go on in the real world
and then getting on with it. Perhaps paradox
consists in relative positionings. As was pointed
out from the audience when they took questions,
the content of Tom and John’s plenary
presentation seemed to be belied by the very
process of its delivery, so learned were its
deliverers. In fact the whole plenary epitomised
a fabulous embodiment of paradox. It was a
coherent, occasionally beautiful juxtapositioning
of imagination (ideas) and experience in terms
of respect for others in the here and now.
Mountain and Valley were both somehow
illuminated. Brian Keenan in his talk the night
before had expressed something similar: ‘You only
come to your point of arrival when you don’t
really know where you are going,’ he had told us.
Tom and John then treated us the next day to a
presentation about what we might do when we
are actually at our points of arrival. There they
were, these two seventy year old savants,
exhorting us not to theorise while they referred
to the ideas (theories) of Heraclitus, Wittgenstein,
Merleau-Ponty and Bateson amongst others to
contextualise their theme ‘Don’t make theories,
don’t explain, your job is to see, hear and go on’.
Somehow there was no contradiction in this.
Apparently opposing positions were more than
allowed, they were actively welcomed as coexisting in Tom and John’s world-view. It felt both
mystical, yet reassuringly pragmatic and down to
earth. Real and therefore wonderfully liberating.
Differentiating connections or connecting
differences in our therapeutic work is often a
matter of languaging, they told us, helping our
clients or patients find ‘both/and’, for example, or
again, to take another example, assisting them to
see how the use of semantic universalisations such
as ‘always’, ‘never’ ‘only’ etc in our relational speech
acts (e.g., “You always make me feel guilty”),
exclude the magic of the moment, the particular,
what is uniquely happening right now for us in
relation to the multiplicity of others and
othernesses in which we find ourselves.
I think Tom and John wanted us to let go of
exclusivity (opinions). To be existentially inclusive
by looking, seeing, hearing and feeling not just
contradictions and ambiguity, but ‘multiguity’,
(an ugly neologism, but you understand what
I mean:), the whole pattern of differences and
connections which make the world the way it is.
If we are able, as the Buddhists say, to be here
now, we will be better able in our psychotherapeutic
practice to meet with respect the people
(‘patients’, ‘clients’) who have the courage to call
upon our skills and give us the privilege of
reflecting upon and conversing with them about
how they can find meaning. This was why their
presentation was inspirational.
Creative Break
Art Therapy Session
Cathy Dunbar, art therapist, facilitated one
possibly due to what was going on in the outside
of the Creative Break sessions. She reports:
world, or things that had been discussed at the
I felt that my role was to supply the materials
conference. People tended to start work as
and the space for the people who participated
individuals but it soon became a group piece with
to express their thoughts about the topic of the
empathetic joinings, conversations about the
conference in a more physical way using objects
interpretation of the linking bits. The group worked
and materials to describe their thoughts and
almost in silence and intensely: contemplating,
feelings. Conflict was very much in the frame
choosing and placing materials and objects.
‘Social Dreaming’ with Laurie Slade,
‘Can you do therapy in the media?’
with Brett Kahr
Two engrossing sessions at Cambridge:
Laurie Slade conducted a social dreaming group
for 15 people. For some it was a quite new
experience, perhaps even a new experience for
a UKCP conference. If so then I hope it becomes
a more regular event for it is what is needed
at UKCP. Briefly, with a social dreaming matrix,
participants are seated with an arrangement of
chairs that does not facilitate eye contact, this in
order to emphasise the free-associative nature
Cairns Clery
(Cairns is a family psychotherapist whose latest
novel, Cuckoo Club, is e-published by Chipmunka)
of the meeting.
“Dreaming has always been of
great importance to psychotherapy”
Laurie asked us for our dreams and as they were
related, especially those that directly or obliquely
made reference to the process of the conference,
the dreamer and the participants all free-associated
to the dreams related. And to what purpose?
Dreaming has always been of great importance
to psychotherapy; it’s where psychoanalysis began!
What social dreaming reveals is that we probably
Kings Great Hall - Gala Dinner
The unconscious is not an individual’s possession,
rather the repository of dynamic unconscious
processes, and social dreaming is a way to explore
what is there. All conferences should have such
a meeting every day (that is if they cannot manage
a daily large group meeting).
do not dream alone, but instead dream as part of
a social matrix, one that can be heavily influenced
by a current shared experience’ such as a
psychotherapy conference.
At the opposite end of presentational spectra
was that of Brett Kahr’s on ‘Can you do therapy
in the media?’ Delivered in the main hall we were
entranced by his eloquent delivery, about the time
he was trounced by media into being the fall guy
in an impossibly absolutist TV programme about
raising children, and his work as a late-night and
radio-based therapist working on Radio 2’s
Janice Long show. Though such interventions
are necessarily short, the work achieved can point
a better direction for individuals who confide so
publicly in him. Responses are given without any
prior knowledge: his very first caller was a 50 year
old trucker who had for 20 years suffered from
bulimia. Late night calls about sex could also be
expected, though always he deals with the
unexpected. In short each of these sessions
provided plenty of involvement, people committed
to their work and showing their professionalism
and adaptability. Many thanks to Laurie and Brett.
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Music, a thread running through the Congress
It could be said that music in different guises reflected
and underpinned the conference programme.
At the suggestion of Jenny Corrigall, the Congress
began with a rousing performance of Dvorak’s
“In Nature’s Realm”, an overture dedicated to
Cambridge by this great composer. It was performed
by an orchestra specially brought together and
rehearsed by the inspirational conductor Peter
Britton. This heartwarming initiation to the Congress
set the mood and atmosphere for the following three
days: warmly interactive, responsive and thoughtful.
One of the iconic places in Cambridge,“The Eagle”
pub (where in 1953 Crick and Watson informally
announced ‘we have found the secret of life’) was
celebrated by a performance in the courtyard by
the Cantilena singers on Friday night. Although
having to battle against the buzz of clinking glasses
and conversation, the a capella singers’ performance
was much appreciated. The same group sang from
a high balcony above King’s College Hall, as dusk
fell during the formal dinner on Saturday evening.
By all accounts it was a deeply satisfying and moving
rendition of traditional songs, which enhanced and
complemented the gastronomic pleasures.
For those not at the dinner,Trinity Fellows’ Garden
was thrown open for delegates to come and picnic
and enjoy a performance of Mozart Serenades.
As the evening darkened and the trees and plants
gave out their night-time scents, again it was Peter
Britton leading 15 musicians who transported
those of us sitting or lying on the grass to a realm
outside the daily humdrum. For the few who
were there, it was an experience to be treasured.
It was music too that ended the congress,
as Derek Gale sang ‘Old Man River’ in memory
of Petrushka Clarkson. Those of us who were
present will not forget this powerful, shaking,
emotional farewell.
Liebe Klug
Drinks Reception
Launch of UKCP & Karnac Partnership
The UKCP-Karnac Book Series has arrived!
Its birth was celebrated in Cambridge in July
at the European Association for Psychotherapy/
UKCP conference with much fun and a good
dose of sunshine.
So what is this series? It is a coming together
of an esteemed publisher in the field of mental
health, Karnac Books, together with UKCP. It is
envisaged that this will benefit both parties equally.
The series will enable UKCP to develop a series
of publications at no financial risk to itself whilst
exploring the psychotherapeutic themes that
UKCP represents as well as embracing academically
the latest in psychotherapy research, practice
and training.
The series is not just seen as an opportunity
for the well known practitioner to publish but
for newcomers to have an opportunity to publish.
Although some authors may be approached to
develop a theme on behalf of UKCP, this series is
open to ALL members of UKCP - and in practice
this has already happened. About 6 months ago
we placed a flyer in The Psychotherapist trawling
for publishing ideas. We had a wonderful response
from 60 potential authors. These are now being
considered in detail and within about a year you
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will start to see these books appearing on the
Karnac list. In fact we already have 3 books on
the UKCP/Karnac list: Jenny Corrigall and
Heward Wilkinson's “Revolutionary Connections
- psychotherapy and neuroscience” (2003),
Brett Kahr’s “Psychotherapy in Britain: Volume 1
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” (2005) and Del
Loewenthal’s “Research in Psychotherapy” (2006).
Gertrud Mander’s “Diversity, Discipline and Devotion
in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Clinical,Training
and Supervisory Perspectives” is due out shortly.
“We had a wonderful response
from 60 potential authors”
The submissions that we have received so far
are truly exciting in that they really represent
the breadth and depth of UKCP and it looks as
if UKCP is going to have a very flourishing and
lively publishing wing in the years to come.
So what is the background to this Series?
Philippa Weitz joined Karnac Books in 2003
as their Commissioning Editor with a mission
to extend the parameters: Karnac holds a very
august reputation within the psychoanalytic and
psychodynamic traditions. Philippa’s role has been
We then walked over to the lawns of King’s College
where Karnac Books, represented by its Managing
Director Oliver Rathbone and Commissioning
Editor Philippa Weitz, hosted a drinks party almost
blinded by the beauty and the evening sun. This was
followed by a dinner in the Great Hall which was
a memorable event for everyone. Philippa Weitz
opened up the after dinner speeches addressing
the diners in both English and French (it was the
European Association for Psychotherapy 15th
Anniversary dinner so it felt important to include
another language). After formally announcing the
launch Philippa went on to introduce the new
UKCP-Karnac prize, which in its first year will be
open to both UKCP and EAP members. The prize
of £200 in book tokens to spend with Karnac Books
will be for the best unpublished work submitted
either through the UKCP-Karnac series, or directly
to Karnac.
So now the celebrations are over and, as they say,
it is over to you. The Editorial Board are still
(and will always be) looking for new submissions.
You can download an application form on the
UKCP website by going to the Publication pages
and then selecting the Downloads.
to broaden this. As part of this role Philippa
approached UKCP to see if a joint series
would be of interest, and, as they say, the rest
is history.
Trauma and Farewell:
The last day of Conference
memoirs and thereby sensitised the field, Lisa
Wake and I left the way for Derek. Derek spoke
both with anger and love directly to Petruska, and
then he sang her favourite song, ‘Ole Man River’
- magnificently and in a deep bass voice. By the
end I think half of us were in tears. The tears
of the underlying pain of the whole conference
welling up! Lisa spoke and then asked me if
I wished to add anything. I said, ‘As the man said,
the rest is silence’. There ensued a silence which
went on - and on - and on. I am sure most of us
had a sense of presence in that silence - I don’t
know how to describe it further. Lisa and I
Opening Plenary - Heward Wilkinson
the President of the EAP, to speak, but then we
It was only on the last day of the Conference that
it hit me fully how much blocked emotion I had
been carrying, from both the anxiety of ‘holding’
the Conference, as master of ceremonies, so to
speak, and from the trauma which was inherent
in the theme and content of ‘Days of Shaking’.
So back to the celebration of the series arrival!
Cambridge in a sunny July has to be one of
the most beautiful settings in the whole world.
We began the launch with formal photos in front
of the Karnac stand with members of the UKCP
Governing Board, the Editorial Board and the
Karnac invited guests which included Dr Dorothy
Rowe, Penny Henderson, Steve Johnson and
Professor Douglas Hooper.
sorted that out and all three of us hugged and the
Conference ended - as it had begun, with Brian
Keenan: acknowledging pain, yet somehow with
deep celebration.
Heward Wilkinson
In the midst of it all someone from the
We have an editorial panel made up of Jenny
Corrigall, Pam Howard, Christine Lister-Ford,
Philippa Weitz and Heward Wilkinson. In addition,
as we have had such success with our trawl
for titles we have had to bring in some external
assessors to help as we have been drowning
under mounds of paperwork. These assessors
currently include Michael Jacobs, Liz Forbat, David
Pocock and Courtenay Young, Both the Editorial
Board and the external assessors have done a
marvellous job in processing the many applications
that have been sent their way.
overlooked our commitment to Alexander Filts,
September 2006
Humanistic and Integrative Section had asked me
to speak about Petruska Clarkson and her recent
suicide and I had undertaken to do this. In the
first part of the morning I chaired the open panel
UKCP-Karnac Editorial Board: (left to right)
Christine Lister-Ford, Philippa Weitz,
Jenny Corrigall, Heward Wilkinson.
discussion, which was somewhat pressured
by the time frame, and felt a bit scratchy and
unsatisfactory, and was constrained by our shared
commitment to write an open letter to our
respective national newspapers, which Andrew
Samuels led. I did not see how I could fit in the
commitment to speak about Petruska and I left it
unsolved for the moment. Then in the break
something serendipitous happened. Derek Gale
(some readers will remember his ‘Gale Force Ten’
column in the old BAC Journal) asked if he could
UKCP-Karnac Editorial Board, the GB and invited
guests: (left to right)
Philippa Weitz, Professor Douglas Hooper,
Christine Lister-Ford, Adrian Rhodes, Valerie Tufnell,
Lisa Wake, Heward Wilkinson, Jenny Corrigall,
James Antrican, Steve Johnson, Penny Henderson,
Dr Dorothy Rowe.
take over the tribute to Petruska. I said, OK,
so long as it was within five minutes. He said he
would speak for a minute and then sing a song,
‘and songs only take three minutes, as you know’!
So at the end of Bill OHanlon’s very moving
presentation, which draw upon Viktor Frankl’s
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Counselling, Psychotherapy, and
Psychotherapeutic Counselling:
Why a Third Category?
Differences and interweavings!
developments in the field is affirmed, without
identity and depth of difference, loss of uniqueness
way, a bridge, the frontier, and the gatekeeper,
denying its separate and distinct role. In effect,
in standardisation.
between them, in their difference, and I am very
Some either/or dichotomies require bridging others require emphasising! (Attrib. Josef Stalin)
Blurring or Bridging?
Many, perhaps, in UKCP and BACP (British
Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy:
www.bacp.co.uk), would feel the dichotomy
between Psychotherapy and Counselling problematic
enough, without a complicating third entity!
However, it is most likely that the objections
would, in practice, come from opposite ends
of the spectrum, from the two organisations!
The unspoken caricature of the extreme UKCP
position, on a bad day, would be that, really, proper
psychotherapists don’ft bother with that simplistic
counselling stuff (it may also get extended into
a contempt for brief therapy methodologies).
We are doing the important, deep, work.
And the unspoken caricature in the extreme
position, which might on a bad day be associated
with BACP, in this stereotyping, is that Counsellors
are doing the real sharp end work, making work
what actually works, with real people in real contexts,
we have to worry about all those esoteric
distinctions over which certain, often psychoanalytically
inclined, psychotherapists split hairs!!
In the face of such caricatures, it suddenly seems
a good idea to have a bridging form of praxis, in
the form of Psychotherapeutic Counselling, which
in fact expresses the reality, that Counselling and
Psychotherapy are inextricably interwoven with
each other, yet also genuinely distinct!
Psychotherapeutic Counselling as a concept
embodies the recognition of that dual reality.
It epitomises and enhances the genuine distinction
between Counselling and Psychotherapy; at the
same time indicating their mutual indispensability.
At the same time the threat of introducing such
a bridge is the blurring that goes with it. At a time
when the Department of Health appear to have
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accepted a definite distinction between
Counselling and Psychotherapy, which on my
understanding remains in dispute within the
community of the BACP, is it really such a good
idea for UKCP to reintroduce this category which
blurs the difference?
“Counsellors are accredited
individually within BACP”
There is a definite distinction, which is the
most fundamental one, to be drawn between
Counselling and Psychotherapy, in terms
of training standards. But it is common ground
between BACP and UKCP that there is no
philosophical distinction to be drawn in terms
of qualitative factors. It is further understandable
that BACP does not have modality Sections,
since one of the major elements in the distinction
between Counselling and Psychotherapy, at a
societal level, is in terms of function. Counselling
is familiar in its more pragmatic base of work,
and to be much more specific and focused
in terms of problem solving. (In this sense many
psychotherapists in effect work as ‘counsellors’
a good deal of the time). Counsellors are
accredited individually within BACP and this is not
tied to modality (e.g., assessment of applications
is multi-modal). Counselling has less investment
in the sheer theory of the field. And so, the
Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section of UKCP
is also a generic Section, in relation to modality.
then, the danger is averted, that it will be from
becomes more and more unobtrusive and absorbed
in the generic, as they become more and more
mature as practitioners. Yet, nevertheless, the
modality base of psychotherapy is much more
fundamental to it, than it is in counselling.
For instance, in discussions about the place of
personal therapy in training in psychotherapy, in
UKCP, views upon its role will be substantially derived
from modality assumptions. Pragmatic considerations
- and considerations derived from research are likely to govern parallel debates in BACP.
UKCP has cautiously worked towards integration
through dialogue, not through homogenisation;
it embodies, as a whole, a pluralistic concept of
integration, one which starts from the recognition
of differences. (We in UKCP have a very long
way to go in terms of recognition of intercultural
differences, but philosophically we do start with
To this end the conception of Psychotherapeutic
quite rapidly emerge in the field as a result of
defined, without denying the validity and reality
Counselling, in the context of UKCP as a whole,
recognising Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
of what Counselling has to offer. Unless the field
enables the true recognition of the difference
is defined - as it were - from the end of
between Counselling and Psychotherapy, without
Heward Wilkinson,
Psychotherapy, there is danger of loss of intrinsic
either being submerged in the other. It is, in a
September 2006
How do I know what I should do now?
The role of the Section Ethics Committee
Ethics is of
fundamental
importance to all
therapeutic work.
Codes of Ethics are
distinct from morals
and ethos in that
ethical codes
are a public system composed from the more
personal moral rules that relate to our ideas
of good and bad or even good and evil.
The ethos is the character of a system or
in our case a profession.
difference, modality difference, and that has been
the pluralistic vision we, along with the European
Association for Psychotherapy, have uniquely
managed to uphold all along.)
Starting with difference in this way has meant
that recently UKCP has, as it has developed the
College concept to supersede Sections, begun to
be able to resolve long-standing conflicts and faultlines in the field - in the first place the reunification
The Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section of
UKCP recognises the value of the practice of those
counsellors who have a serious and substantial
training. It has an Ethics Committee in order to
ensure that every organisation putting members
onto the UKCP register has a system of ethics
leading to an ethos which is of a sufficiently high
standard for us to accept them. The ethics of an
organisation must consist of several parts,
all of which we examine and consider:
of psychological work, stemming from both
Freud and Jung. In terms of this recognition of the
primacy of the modality pathway in Psychotherapy,
confident that the fullness of that function will
Counselling that the basis of the field will be
• A code of ethical principles which guide all
decisions and all practice
• A code of practice which sets out the norms
of behaviour which the organisation demands
of its practitioners.
We recognise that there is often a tendency to
• A complaints and appeals procedure which
ensures that all clients have the means to
redress if they are not treated with
the appropriate ethical standards.
For this reason, all those dealing with ethics must
scapegoat where ethical questions arise. If we can
attach all our evil to one goat, we can drive it out.
be willing to say ‘there but for the grace of God go I’.
Because the area of conduct is difficult and we are
all inclined to wish for certainty where there can
be only doubt, we try to be as non-critical as
In addition training organisations must have a code
of practice for the treatment of their trainees
involving such requirements as open and
transparent assessment processes.
“We emphasise of course that we
cannot offer legal advice”
possible. We offer recommendations in most cases
and only rarely where there is an omission or a
dangerously tendentious statement, we may make
a requirement. We hope that the organisations
that have contact with us will find the experience
useful and thought provoking. We emphasise of
course that we cannot offer legal advice but are
simply using experience to look from the outside
While we must require all these documents, we
also recognise that codes are usually helpful when
all is going well. As soon as there is a problem,
there will be conflicting principles and everything
is thrown into uncertainty.
Nevertheless, in order to ensure that all
organisations meet these requirements, we have an
Ethics Committee which examines all the relevant
documents from each applicant organisation.
and to foresee where what is written could lead
to difficulties in the future.
The Section Ethics Committee consists at the
moment of :
Lesley Murdin (Chair), Mary Tweed,
Dennis Greenwood,Whiz Collis, Gordon Law
Lesley Murdin
the place and role of Psychotherapeutic
The Centrality of Modality
However, this does give us a further means of
coming to grips with the differences. It is true that
there is an inherent ‘integrative’ thrust even within
psychotherapy, in terms of a ‘common factors’
understanding of integration (‘integration’ with
a small ‘i’); it is well-known that the modality element
of the technique of experienced psychotherapists
Counselling then becomes clear. Psychotherapeutic
Counselling, practised within the umbrella of the
cross-modality Psychotherapy Organisation of
UKCP, recognises Counselling as a Professional
Expertise in its own right, but governed and led
by, and rooted in, modality-based understandings
of Psychotherapy. In this way, the role of Counselling
as rooted in the fundamental theoretical and praxis
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Assessment and Accreditation of UKCP
Training Programmes in Psychotherapeutic
Counselling
psychotherapeutic counselling being taught and
which specifies the learning outcomes.
If the organisation is not a member of UKCP then
across the UK. Between them they have years
it must apply in tandem to the UKCP Membership
centres, helping agencies, occupational settings,
of experience in various settings in professional
Committee for membership.
private practice and so forth. The individual
and vocational education, assessment
undertakes and in-depth training usually over
and accreditation.
from the outset it would endeavour to develop
of counsellor.
Finding a reputable
service providers and potential candidates in
best possible standards in the assessment of
training in
training that the course has undergone a rigorous
member organisations for the purposes of
Most counselling courses offer training which
Psychotherapeutic
inspection and that the qualification offered by the
registration through UKCP. As a section that is
is modular and allows the candidate to progress
Counselling that will
MO is worth the paper that it is written on.
cross modality this has presented many challenges
from the acquisition of basic counselling skills and
then deepening the content for those candidates
The BACP has an impressive track record in
definitions and we are still on a learning curve.
wanting to do further training to equip them to
they need to enter the profession can be a hit
supporting and developing the setting up of
What is important in our assessment and
make a full career change and become a properly
and miss affair unless the individual has knowledge
counsellor training programmes throughout the
development of training programmes is that
accredited and registered counsellor. The focus
of the field of counsellor training. Many people
UK. It has high standards for accrediting courses
we work alongside BACP and not in competition
of assessment within the UKCP PCS is on the
spend several years training, in what they believe
and for monitoring their progress through a
with it and that we maintain and develop equal
training of professional counsellors seeking
to be a ‘proper’ training course, only to discover
rigorous system of re-accreditation. For example,
standards in the training of Psychotherapeutic
registration as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
that their qualification is not of any use in
courses must complete review forms and attend
Counsellors.
through the UKCP.
furthering their career as a counsellor. So it is
development meetings with BACP on an annual
important for prospective candidates to do their
research when looking for a suitable course and
for prospective employers to know what
constitutes a solid training.
Building on its established track record of ensuring
quinnquenial review. It is therefore vital that we
as representatives of the UKCP through the PCS
the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
has developed a new initiative through its
Other articles within this issue will explore
field of counsellor training within the UK.
Psychotherapeutic Counselling per se and what
constitute the training standards to develop this
Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section (PCS)
Drawing from the research into counsellor
competence McLeod (2003) proposes a
PCS it will need to familiarize itself with the
training standards and learning outcomes
documents produced by the section to establish
whether or not it meets the PCS criteria.
The PCS Board of Assessors offers consultancy
to organisations which want to develop training
or bring their existing training up to
specialism. The assessors will be looking at how
of what is involved in the process of assessment
by the PCS.
the training enables the candidates in training
from the PCS Assessment Board to help them
to further their application and support them
through this process. A professional fee for this
service will be negotiated with the consultant
depending on the work involved.
Submitting the Course
Documents to the
Assessment Board
PCS the organization will submit its training or
accreditation documents to the PCS Assessment
Board which will check the documentation and
carry out an initial screening. If the chair of the
Initial Application
Board is satisfied she will appoint 2 assessors
who will undertake a full assessment of the
training and or accrediting functions of the MO.
The MO will request an application pack from
2. Personal beliefs and attitudes
At this point the MO could request a consultant
Alongside organizational membership of the
areas of competence:
1. Interpersonal skills
Consultation Stage
PCS standards.
composite model to identify and develop
counsellor behaviour. He describes seven
are on a par with what is happening within the
“Courses vary in the depth
and intensity of training”
programme to become accredited by the UKCP
The following outline will enable an understanding
maintain and build on these standards so that we
high standards in the training of Psychotherapists
The Process of Application and Assessment:
If your organization wants its counsellor training
within PCS in terms of agreeing standards and
What is distinct about a UKCP
Psychotherapeutic Training
Programme?
Member able to attend meetings.
Registrants involved in training programmes
recognised by UKCP will provide assurance for
basis as well as undergoing an in-depth
The Board consists of ten qualified Counsellors
undertaken by professional counsellors in health
several years to earn the designated title
candidate with what
or not to accept the applicant as a prospective
and Psychotherapists all of whom are UKCP
In line with these moves the PCS decided that
equip the potential
The Section Meeting will then vote on whether
Professional counselling is the primary activity
A Psychotherapeutic Counsellor training
Background
The Board of Assessors
the level and nature of the actual qualification
the PCS administrator. This will contain all the
One assessor will be the Lead and from this point
the MO will communicate through the Lead
necessary information and documents relevant
Assessor. Timescales will be set so that all parties
to deciding whether or not your organisation
understand the time frame to which they are
to learn and acquire skills on a number of levels,
3. Conceptual ability
and your course are ready to apply for
working to. If the assessors are not satisfied that
cognitive, emotional, attitudinal and behavioural,
4. Personal ‘soundness’
accreditation through the PCS or if they need
the organization meets the criteria they will return
further development before completing the
the documents to the organization with clear
application forms.
feedback as to what needs to be accomplished
in accrediting training programmes in
Within UKCP there has been a good degree of
with particular reference to developing
Psychotherapeutic Counselling leading to UKCP
autonomy within and across the sections in what
competencies in establishing and maintaining the
registration as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
constitutes the training of a psychotherapist within
psychotherapeutic counselling relationship which
a specific modality. This has led to much creative
is the central factor in the work. The course will
This now offers a new option for individuals
‘difference’ between training courses, requirements
need to demonstrate how its selection process,
returned to the PCS and be examined by the
If the initial screening is successful the assessors
wanting to train, qualify and become accredited
and standards as well as the depth and intensity
course content, requirements, theoretical base,
management group including the Section chair and
will move to a full assessment which includes
and registered as a counsellor. To date the leader
of the training process. Currently in the move
assessment procedures and delivery of the
chairs of Training Standards, Ethics and Assessment
a visit to the course by the two assessors.
in the field of counselling has been the British
toward potential regulation of the profession
training will enable, and evaluate the capacity of,
PCS will want to examine how courses enable
Board. Alongside this the new applicant
Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
we as member organisations are experiencing
candidates to both engage in and tolerate
the candidate to develop psychotherapeutic
organisation is invited to a full section meeting to
counselling competencies and will focus on
present themselves by giving an overview of their
four main arenas.
organisation and training programme and answer
(BACP), recognised throughout the UK and
a ‘shift’ within UKCP as we are being challenged
what can be a demanding process of learning.
Europe, and therefore the only real option for
to recognise that we must endeavour to meet
The impact on the self of the counsellor as they
registration and accreditation as a counsellor.
standards imposed from outside of our own
engage in the therapeutic relationship needs to be
5. Mastery of techniques
6. Ability to understand and work within
social systems
7. Openness to learning and enquiry
to become eligible.
Completed application forms will then be
This process involves three main stages:
1. Pre-visit assessment
questions posed by the Section. This provides an
2. On-site assessment
opportunity to ascertain whether the organisation
3. Assessor’s report and conclusions
Now Member Organisations (MO’s) of UKCP
sections. For example the move toward
supported and challenged as they are stretched to
1. Counselling Training
can apply to have their counselling training
centralisation in terms of learning outcomes,
understand themselves at a deeper level.
2. Counselling Practice
is in line with the Section’s philosophy, aims and
accredited and recognised by UKCP.
complaints procedures and such like means that
Courses vary in the depth and intensity of training
3. Counselling Supervision
flag statement and if not what they might need
Organisations outside of UKCP can do likewise.
we are more open to scrutiny.
and this is usually determined by the model of
4. Personal Development
to put in place to become members.
continued over...
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Pre-visit assessment
2.00
Assessors meet with students and
graduates followed by a separate
An in-depth scrutiny of all documents will be
carried out to determine that PCS criteria are
met and that the MO is a bona fide organization.
The PCS Chair of Ethics screens the MO’s Ethics,
Complaints, Grievances and Appeals documents
alongside their Equal Opportunities policies and
sends a report to the Lead Assessor who will
incorporate these findings into the assessment.
The Lead Assessor will begin a dialogue with
the applicant organization to seek clarification
or further information before deciding whether
or not to proceed to the on-site visit.
meeting with course tutors.
3.30
Assessors have time alone to review
and to ask further questions if needed.
4.00
Closing Plenary,
Assessor’s report and
conclusions
Following the visit the Assessors will produce
the outcome will fall in one of the following
There are four possible outcomes at this stage:
1. Approval
1. The application process may be terminated
because it does not meet the criteria.
2. Approval with Requirements
2. The application might be referred back
to the consultation stage.
3. Approval with either Requirements and/or
4. The course proceeds to an on-site assessment.
or Recommendations
Recommendations within a timeframe,
prior to ratification
4. Deferment
Once the applicant MO and the PCS agrees
in writing to the report and any Requirements
On-site assessment
and/or Recommendations and the given
timeframe the Section Chair will presents
The Assessors will meet to clarify the objectives
of visit. During the site inspection they will have
meetings with staff, supervisors and candidates
to determine congruency between the paper
submission and the training in situ. The day will
end with a plenary and initial impressions of the
assessors. In spite of the challenges involved to
date most on site visits have provided a valuable
and enjoyable learning experience for course staff
as well as for the assessors. A typical inspection
day might be structured as follows:
10.00
11.00
Course director and Course
administrator meet with the 2 PCS
assessors to answer questions.
Assessors observe teaching,
supervision groups, skills practice
and personal development groups.
a report to the UKCP Membership Committee
How to Apply
The following books are available to review.
In the first instance please write to the UKCP PCS
Administrator to request an Application Pack
which will contain all the information that you
need to begin the process. If you would prefer
to start with a consultancy or have any other
queries please email me:
[email protected]
If you are interested in becoming a book
reviewer for The Psychotherapist please contact
Alex Walker-McClimens at:
[email protected]
We hope this information has been helpful
to you and that MOs and other counselling
training providers will apply to UKCP for
accreditation of their Counselling Programmes.
Counselling for Eating Disorders in Men:
Person-Centred Dialogues
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Jennie McNamara
Chair of the Assessment Board for PCS
Jennie McNamara is director of Counselling
Training at the Northern Guild for Psychotherapy
in the North East of England. She has had over
twenty years experience in the field and has
chaired a number of Counselling, Professional and
Training Standards committees both nationally and
internationally, including those of the European
Association for Counselling and the International
Transactional Analysis Association. She sat on the
BACP Course Accreditation Group management
committee for nine years and was a former chair
of HIPS and UKATC.
The Handbook of Forensic Learning Disabilities
Tim Riding, Caron Swann and Bob Swann
Person-Centred Therapy: A Clinical Philosophy
Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall
Master Pass. Practice Examination Papers for the
MRCPsych. Part 1
Sabina Burza with Beata Mougey, Srinivas Perecherla
and Nakul Talwar
Workplace Counselling in the NHS:
Person-centred dialogue
Co-Counselling: The Theory and practice
of Re-evaluation Counselling
Katie Kauffman and Caroline New
Understanding NLP
Peter Young
Sticks and Stones…
Katie Metcalfe
The Future of Training in Psychotherapy
and Counselling
John Rowan
Counselling for Progressive Disability:
Integrating Spirituality in Health and Social Care:
Perspectives and Practical Approaches
Wendy Greenstreet
Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers
of people with Intellectual Disabilities
Geraldine Holt, Anastasia Gratsa, Nick Bouras,Theresa
Joyce, Mary Jane Spiller and Steve Hardy
Healing the Eternal Soul
Andy Tonlinson
New Thinking about Mental Health and Employment
Bob Grove, Jenny Secker and Patience Seebohm
Counselling for Obesity: Person Centred Dialogues
Embracing Non-Directivity: Reassessing personcentred theory and practice in the 21st century
Brian E. Levitt
Counselling for Problem Gambling:
Counselling Victims of Warfare:
Asperger’s Syndrome and Sexuality:
From adolescence through adulthood
Isabelle Henault
Prescription for Change: For Doctors who want a life
Susan E Kersley
Poetry,Therapy & Emotional Life
Diana Hedges
ABC of Change for Doctors
Susan E Kersley
From Trauma to Transformation
Muriel Prince Warren, DSW, ACSW
Social Capital and Mental Health
Kwame McKenzie and Trudy Harpham
Psychodrama - A Beginner’s Guide.
Zoran Djuric, Jasna Veljkovic and Miomir Tomic
Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained
Patricia Hughes
The Madness of Our Lives:
Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery
Penny Gray
Expectation: The Very Brief Therapy Book
Rubin Battino
What Seems to be the Trouble?
Stories in Illness and Healthcare
Trisha Greenhalgh
Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.
Third Edition
Christiane Sanderson
Expectation: The Very Brief Therapy Book
Rubin Battino
The Overweight Patient
Kathy Leach
for AGM ratification.
Contemporary Psychodrama:
New approaches to theory and technique
Jose Fonseca
Making and Breaking Children’s Lives
Criag Newnes and Nick Radcliffe
Counselling Young Bing Drinkers
Transexualism: Illusion and Reality
Colette Chiland
Race, Culture, and Psychotherapy:
Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice
Roy Moodley & Stephen Palmer
Lives Transformed
David Malan and Patricia Coughlin Della Selva
Once ratified the MO may submit the names
and Board of Trustees with recommendations
of Graduates who meet PCS criteria to UKCP
for inclusion on the Register as a
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
Charges for the
Assessment Process
These fees are payable to the UKCP in two parts.
The first charge of £320.00 is sent in together
with the full application for assessment and
accreditation of the training programme.
When this initial screening and pre-visit
assessment is complete and the assessors are
12. 30
Lunch.
ready to progress to the visit itself the second
1.15
Assessors review written course work
and assessments.
charge of £675.00 becomes payable. The total
12
Currently these fees are under review and
it is likely that they will increase. An annual
membership fee is payable to the PCS.
a detailed report including their decision,
categories:
3. Additional information might be requested
so that further consideration can be given
to the documentation.
the psychotherapist book review
Psychotherapists as expert witnesses:
Families at breaking point
Roger Kennedy
Responding to a Serious mental Health Problem:
Person Centred Dialogues
Strengthening Emotional Ties through
Parent-Child-Dyad Art Therapy:
Interventions with Infants and Preschoolers
Lucille Proulx
Advanced Skills and Interventions in
Therapeutic Counseling
Gordon Emmerson
Religions, Culture & Healthcare: A Practical
Handbook for Use in Healthcare Environments
Susan Hollins
Coping with Pet Loss
Robin Grey
The Embodied Self; Movement and Psychoanalysis
Katya Bloom
Personal Construct Psychotherapy:
Advances in Theory, Practice and Research
David A Winter and Linda L Viney
A Question of Technique
Monica Lanyado and Ann Horne
Taking Positions in the Organisation
David Campbell and Marianne Groenbaek
The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers:
Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping
an Aging Parent
Barry J. Jacobs, PSyD
The MRCPsych Study Manual. Third Edition
Ben Green
A Little Book Of Therapy
Transforming Emotion:
Conversations in counselling and Psychotherapy
Glenda Fredman
For and Against Psychoanalysis. 2nd EditionStephen
Frosh
Working With Anger & Young People
Nick Luxmoore
Autism and Blindness: Research and Reflections
Linda Pring
Sibling Relationships
Prophecy Coles
Counselling For Death & Dying
Little Windows into Art Therapy
Small Openings for Beginning Therapies
Deborah Schroder
charges for the assessment are £995.00.
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Compassion Edited by Paul Gilbert. Routledge. 2005
Review of ‘The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy’
Dr. Derek Indoe. ISBN 1-58391-983-X. £19.99 PAPERBACK
Ed. Hubert J.M. Hermans & Giancarlo Dimaggio, Brunner-Routledge, Hove, 2004.
This is a welcome
addition to the library
of Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy
and different
chapters are likely
to appeal to
love came from other literature notably religion.
What effect does intimately knowing the belief
Oxford University life was not compassionate
systems of these have on the therapeutic
and so it was no surprise to me that there was
experience if the wounded healer is not present
no tutor there who felt competent to supervise
in the therapist or integrity not present?
treatise on forgiveness and compassion was
initially strange. Surely these are ways of living.
of personality disorders and narcisisstic parents.
compassion, the one who listens rather than the
In a way we have lost contact with our roots.
one who talks,
‘Good me, bad me’ begins at an early age.
practice. The book is organised into three
deals with compassion and its application in
psychotherapy. There are chapters of research
linking compassion with attachment, physiology,
cruelty, pro-social behaviour and forgiveness.
coming together
to explore
a common emerging
paradigm. Each of the perspectives can then
provide ‘jigsaw pieces’ to the emerging gestalt.
The practical chapters of this book transform,
“The best psychology they say
is common sense”
among other things, the thought-record and gives
us an example of compassionate meditation.
In this book, there is such a convergence.
The paradigm is stated on the cover:
There is a sense in which being and doing are
The basic assumption of the ‘dialogical self ’ is that
Initially when scanning this book my first thought
not part of the same process and highlight the
there is no centralized ‘headquarters’ in the mind,
was ‘Oh no, another book trying to make me into
difference between holiday and relaxation.
but that the self is made up of a number of
There is a sense in which isolation of these
different ‘characters’. Interpersonal relationships,
concepts from an holistic view of the human
from infancy onwards, become internalized -
being that CBT provides is like putting the plaster
these internalized relationships then influence
a Buddhist, when what I want to do is to
understand and grow in my own cultural heritage,
The best psychology they say is common sense.
backgrounds
between meeting someone who is
It is a book that one
conceptualisations and research and Part 2 with
practitioners from
There is a qualitative difference in experience
compassionate and someone who knows about
sections: An overview; Part 1 which deals with
to see experienced
a variety of
It is also highly relevant that we are now talking
read when seeking to reflect on theory and
It is always exciting
a dissertation on love. To read an academic
different people.
will read more than once and return to
Introduction
Christianity.’ A more detailed read, however,
Introduction (Hermans &m Dimaggio) Lays out
understandable from there.’ (p. 29) This is a very
the groundwork of the dialogical theories of self.
strange statement. Is there no relational
They introduce the concept of ‘self-narratives as
development without or before language?
spacially-structured and multivoiced’. Both teller
There is plenty of evidence of, for example,
and listener of a story are positioned in a space
the importance of mirror-neurons in the
and between the several positions a field of
development of relational self (Daniel Stern)
tension is stretched in which any temporally
and in the development of language (V.S.
organized story is constantly challenged by
Ramachandran). I will say more of this later.
spatially opposed interlocutors.’ (pp. 1- 2).
Dysfunctions are seen in the interplay of these
voices rather than in any voice in isolation.
Chapter 3: Toward a neuropsychological model
of internal dialogue (Lewis & Todd) Raises the
question of how the brain can simultaneously
The authors emphasise the potential for this
organise different ‘selves’ in dialogue.
theory to provide a meeting place for different
The authors note that the voices do not need
psychotherapeutic schools, and between
to be simultaneous, but that they may each in
psychotherapists and brain researchers.
their turn be ‘acting as if someone might be
Chapter 1: The dialogical self (Hermans)
Concerns the origins of the dialogical self
approach in the writings of Bakhtin and William
James (1890). For Bakhtin (1973), the image
is Dostoevsky’s writings, where there is no
listening to us, evaluating us, and ready to react
verbally’ (p. 46, italics in original). They also note
that there are two relatively independent
attentional systems, the orbitofrontal cortex
and the anterior cingulate cortex, which can
Maybe the new paradigm is to rediscover this
showed (pages 228-231) an acquaintance by the
on the wound that needs healing. A chapter
relationships during life.
common sense and all that it implies about what
author with the Jesus Prayer, the Desert Fathers,
on the perfect nurturer also makes use of the
it is to be human. Proverbs and truisms contain
Contributors bring to this approach their
but a dialogue of different characters, each seeing
Bede Griffiths though no mention alas of the
a wisdom that learned texts have frequently
thought record and gives clear sessional outlay
backgrounds in a variety of traditions: cognitive,
the world from their own separate but
There is a case example (Yvonne) in this chapter,
relationship Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Khan
ignored. One such truism is that healthy living
of how to address the difficulties of clients who
narrative, psychoanalytic, cognitive analytic,
dialogically-linked perspectives.
to which I shall return later.
enjoyed. Psychology and religious literature are
would seem to be possible the more one is able
do not feel what they know. Use of a worksheet
constructivist, humanistic, psychodrama, process-
not the same, and yet recent thinking in cognitive
to love oneself and love the other. Another
experiential, philosophy and neurology. They write
behavioural therapy has rightly refocused on areas
voices goes some way to building absent
about theoretical, clinical, methodological aspects
might be that peace begins in our own hearts.
such as ‘forgiveness’, ‘healing’ and ‘spirituality’.
schemata. Setting up the image of a perfect
of their approaches, which are at the same time
As I read this book I reflected upon my own
The more one reflects on this, the more
psychological development and that of psychology
nurturer mirrors that of the powerful friend
different and mutually influenced. In this way, you
“Interpersonal relationships,
from infancy onwards, become
internalized”
Chapter 4: Encountering self-otherness (Cooper)
to face, and evaluate the source of self-shaming
therapists should compassionately expose
This allows for a psychotherapeutic perspective
In Part II, clinical applications of the theory are
themselves to their assumptions, or lack of them,
in hypnosis who wishes you happiness and the
could see the book as a parallel to the approach,
within society, noticing the mud
dialoguing voices maintaining their separateness,
explored from the perspectives of Narrative
I had acquired on my wheels as I have travelled.
that therapy has among its purposes a struggle
sources of happiness or the same persona in
that emphasises the organisation of the ‘position
yet building in the dialogue an emergent coherence.
Process (Chapter 5, Angus & McLeod),
I have always found it impossible in my living
on the part of the participant to transform the
EMDR work.
repertoire’ as a whole, rather than the removal of
any single problematic voice. The addition of new
Assimilation Model (Chapter 6, Stiles, Osatuke,
to separate values from psychology.
self, and forgive the wrong and hurt (real or
self-positions, or the realignment of pre-existing
Glick & Mackay), Process-Experiential therapy
I remember reading Eric Fromm’s ‘The Art of
imaginary) brought to treatment.
ones cannot but alter the drama of the client’s
(Chapter 7, Whelton & Greenberg), Dialogical
inner voices.
Therapy (Chapter 8, Hermans & Hermans-
Chapter 2: Developmental origins of the
Jansen), psychoanalysis (Chapter 9, Bromberg),
dialogical self (Bertau) This is one of the weakest
and psychodrama (Chapter 10,Verhofstadt-
chapters in the book (not helped by what seems
Deneve, Dillen, Helskens & Siongers).
like poor translation). ‘Relatedness is the core
In Part III, work is presented with traumatic loss
structure from where different kinds of being-
(Chapter 11, Neimeyer & Buchanan-Arvay),
related-to (others, self, world) develop, and these
impoverished and disorganised dialogues
I will describe each of the chapters briefly, and
relations are to be conceived as structure of talk
(Chapter 12, Dimaggio, Salvatore & Catania),
then add some overall thoughts about the book,
and reply. Because language is embedded in this
schizophrenia (Chapter 13, Lysaker & Lysaker),
including some issues which I felt were missing in
dialogicity it is always speech, always and act and
and personality disorders (Chapter 14, Semerari,
the discussions.
an event between at least two persons, and only
Carcione, Dimaggio, Nicolo & Procacci).
Loving’ at an early age along with ‘Becoming
a Person’ and ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by
On a more self-reflective note, therapists need
Paulo Friere, noticing the impact this had on
to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to
my relationships. At the same time, I remember
themselves and question the relevance of their
The compassionate frame is one that leads to a
gentler set of thoughts that self soothe. The case
studies in this part of the book represent the
complexity of cases that present themselves.
Outline of the book
Following an introduction by the editors, the
book is divided into four parts. Part I is on the
general theory of dialogical self. Part II is on
But the practicality of letting go is far easier than
theory and clinical practice. Part III is on
‘Reconstructing dialogical processes in severely
affected patients’. Part IV is on methodological
well the oppressiveness of extended families,
own assumptions and core beliefs which they
uttering the words in therapy. Practically fasting
and the shame guilt culture derived from a study
bring to therapy and which can confound that
and temperance have always been associated
of Classics that hampered development from
therapy. How many of us are well versed in
with healing and yet we would not recommend
crysallis to butterfly in adolescence.
Christian,Taoist, Hindu, Muslim thought? and what
this. There is a sense in which therapy and
effect does ignorance of such systems have on
compassion can become relativistic and ordered
An understanding of the theoretical concepts
our understanding of the client’s cognitive system
to measure but this will be to ignore the essential
such as forgiveness, compassion, friendship, and
and our own?
willngness to commit.
issues in the psychotherapeutic process.
‘objective’ universe or central observer/narrator,
give different simultaneous perspectives on the
same situation.
Intriguingly tries to apply Buber’s distinction
between I-Thou and I-It to the relationship
between selves.
continued over...
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Part IV presents methodological issues in
one of the therapists suggests (as a psychodramatic
Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt
measuring internal multiplicity (Chapter 15,
‘double’) that the abusive father misses him, and
Therapy, faculty member of Gestalt Therapy
Osatuke, Gray, Glick, Stiles & Barkham) and
supports the idealisation of mother. It is clear
International Network (GTin), and a guest trainer
dialogical sequence analysis (Chapter 16, Leiman).
that the co-created narrative can have a major
for many training programmes internationally.
effect on the environment, and is not just an
He is co-author with his GTin colleagues of
‘inner’ event. This is not sufficiently explored.
‘Contact and Relationship in a Field Perspective’,
Issues
There are two significant omissions in this book,
Secondly, the implications of a relationally
unspoken voices, if you like. Firstly, while there
constructed self are not fully drawn out (Chapter
are many statements about a multiplicity of ways
16 is an exception here). Too much emphasis is
of relating to the environment as well as the self,
given to the verbal domain, and too little on the
the overwhelming emphasis is on the
relationship between therapist and client as a
relationships between internal voices. It seems
context for the inner voices. For example, in
most important to me that the relationship
Chapter 3 on the neurological implications of a
between inner voices and the external
dialogic theory, if you include the intersubjectivity
environment are explored, and this does not
implicit in non-verbal relatedness, it is clear that
happen except in Chapter 10.
each of the self-positions ‘contains’ each of the
others and the environment: the ‘guilty one’ is
Specifically, in the case study of Yvonne presented
in Chapter 3, she is ready to give a presentation
at work and realises that she has forgotten
to give her son his homework to hand in.
Yvonne’s self dialogue is explored in the chapter.
Yet, to my understanding, the dialogues are based
on external considerations and possibilities which
meaningful in the context of the ‘critic’ and the
reassurers in the environment. It is not that there
‘exist’ several ongoing selves, but that the nonlinear dynamics of intersubjectivity allow for a
number of ‘attractors’ (Gleick, 1987). Each one
of these contains the whole dialogue. The work
of Daniel Stern is a big omission here.
are never mentioned. Yvonne could give priority
to her son and go to or ring the school,
a possibility quickly turned into an internal voice
Conclusion
of ‘look inward - I can’t help it’ Behind this is
This is a worthwhile, exciting book, with the
probably the expectations of her from her work,
raw edges of a developing work-in-progress.
the potential consequences of her giving priority
There are many ideas to engage the reader
to those she loves rather than those who pay her.
of whatever theoretical background, often very
When she raises questions of ‘whose fault is it?’,
clearly presented. It seems absolutely right to
there is some anger in her inner expression,
which could equally well have been externalised
to the situation of working mothers in society.
Self-talk could be a replacement (retroflection
in Gestalt Psychotherapy terms) for an
external action.
move away from the illusion of a unitary ongoing
self. There is however more to do in the
References
Bakhtin, M. (1973). Problems of Dostoevsky’s
Poetics. 2nd edition. Tr. R.W. Rotsel. Ardis, Ann
(Chapter 7), the fact of the dialogue being
Arbor, MI.
commented on, and seems to be reduced to
Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos: Making a New Science.
Viking Press, New York.
the therapist as an observer and commentator.
However, it is in the relational field of the
therapist/client dyad that the internal positions
and (with John Harris) co-author of ‘Gestalt:
Working with Groups’, published by Manchester
Gestalt Centre, and author of many papers
on Gestalt therapy in British, French, American,
Australian, Canadian and Spanish Gestalt Journals.
His book ‘Self in Relation’ is published by the
Gestalt Journal Press. He is on the Editorial
Boards for the International and British Gestalt
Journals, and is President-Elect of the Association
for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy.
Peter Philippson
The first record I have is from before my time the “Notes of the Counselling Task Group
Teleconference” held on 10 December 2001.
Present were Christine Lister-Ford (Convenor),
Jennie McNamara and Lesley Murdin with
apologies from Judith Lask. Jennie and Lesley have
been involved in the PC Section for the long run both now chair committees within the Section!
This meeting led to a presentation at the March
2002 AGM to decide whether or not to explore
the founding of a section for psychotherapeutic
counsellors. It was agreed that a committee should
be established to recommend whether or not UKCP
should establish a division for counsellors and if so,
what standards would be required and what would
be the implications. On 21 September 2002
a working group came together with the following
members: Joan Foster (Chair), Judith Lask,
Del Lowenthal, Lesley Murdin and Heward Wilkinson.
Their agreed tasks were:
1. To produce a description of the relationship
between psychotherapy and counselling
2. To identify the issues relating to the potential
involvement with counselling for UKCP in
organisational and political terms
3. To put an action plan for implementation in place
of requests for counselling training organisations
and individual counsellors to join UKCP. It was also
considered to be an appropriate development to
confirm the differences between psychotherapy
and psychotherapeutic counselling. By offering
counsellors a place within UKCP- as psychotherapeutic
counsellors - the difference is recognised and
respected. As opposed to the view that
psychotherapy and counselling are one and the
same. The working party met a number of times,
consulted and presented their conclusions to the
Governing Board on 25 January 2003.
Detailed discussion was held as to the possible
structure for a special section for psychotherapeutic
counsellors. Two models were considered:
1. Establishing a special section for
psychotherapeutic counsellors
2. Incorporating counsellors into the eight
sections by modality
As members can register under more than one
section, it was considered that the most expedient
method to take this proposal forward was to establish
a special section for psychotherapeutic counsellors.
Approval was granted for the establishment of a
psychotherapeutic counsellor section at the AGM
held in March 2003. This is a significant move for
UKCP, broadening its representation to include the
group of counsellors who have an in-depth training
and their own personal therapy.
This group recommended to the Governing Board
that a Psychotherapeutic Counselling Section
should be established. Accordingly at the March
2003 AGM, the following proposal was put:
By the March 2004 AGM a report on the work
of the Psychotherapeutic Counsellor Section was
presented to the UKCP AGM. The report
was accepted.
After due discussion and consideration, the
Governing Board recommend that UKCP should
establish a special Section for Psychotherapeutic
Counsellors.
A number of constitutional amendments were put
to the UKCP EGM on 30 October 2004, to enable
the section to be formally constituted. These entailed
adding the words “psychotherapeutic counselling”
to the constitution. The March 2003 AGM approved
the formation of the section. The amendments
presented at the 2004 EGM were technical
amendments to the UKCP Constitution.
James, W. (1890). The Principles of Psychology,
Vol. 1. London, Macmillan.
develop. These considerations have been mostly
Peter Philippson, M.Sc. (Gestalt Psychotherapy)
emphasised in the debate on False Memory,
is a UKCP Registered Gestalt psychotherapist
where the therapist’s conception of what is
and trainer, a Teaching and Supervising Member
etiological in the dysfunction is transmitted to the
of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK,
client. An example of this in Chapter 10, where
a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre,
16
An interesting question, which I trust that this
article will answer:
development of a coherent theory.
Similarly, in presenting the ‘empty chair’ method
presented in front of a significant other is not
pub. l’Exprimerie, editor of ‘The Nature of Pain’
Psychotherapeutic Counselling Counsellors joining
UKCP - good gracious - however did that happen?
Background:
At the 2002 UKCP AGM, it was agreed that a
working party should be set up to explore the
issues of establishing a special section for
psychotherapeutic counsellors within UKCP.
This was in response to the growing number
By the March 2006 AGM, the Psychotherapeutic
Counselling Section was arriving at the end of its
first full year as a Section of UKCP. This had been
a challenging process, with a steep learning curve.
Particular thanks are due to Jennie McNamara
(Chair of Training Standards and Accreditation) and
Lesley Murdin (Chair of Ethics) who have brought
wisdom and experience to the Section, which has
been of huge benefit in ensuring the right
structural and procedural decisions were made.
The Section continues the Assessment Process
of applicant organisations. At present the majority
of applicants are existing Member Organisations
of UKCP.
The Section has discussed at length, and raised at
the January 2006 UKCP Governing Board, the issue
of where Psychotherapeutic Counselling will sit
when regulation takes place. The recognition
of a clear distinction between counselling and
psychotherapy by the Department of Health
is to be applauded, and indications are that there
is understanding of the distinctiveness of
Psychotherapeutic Counsellors. It is clear that the
Training Standards embraced by the Section are
at the top end of the counselling training spectrum.
The training is to a minimum of graduate level
and encompasses post-graduate certificates and
diplomas and also includes degrees at Masters level.
So, where next for this new Section? We have
three main areas of activity. The first is to continue
our work in assessing applications from existing
Member Organisations of UKCP. Secondly, we are
working, as are all Sections, on the new College
structures and thirdly, we are preparing to launch
the Section to invite applications from organisations
new to UKCP.
The Section has had its challenges and has struggled
to put the necessary administrative structures into
place to assess applicant organisations. The PC
Section relies heavily on the amount of voluntary
work given by individuals who believe passionately
in the importance of establishing a place for
psychotherapeutic counsellors and on behalf of all
of those benefiting from their work, I would like
to take this opportunity to offer them thanks.
Joan Foster
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the psychotherapist events diary 2006/2007
02.10.06 - 03.10.06 Dialogic Communication: Designing meetings to facilitate
better communication with W. Barnett Pearce
20.10.06 - 21.10.06 ‘Making Trauma Therapy Safer:The Psychophysiology of
Trauma & PTSD’ Chiron Centre.
03.10.06
Interventive Interviewing & Reflexive Questioning.
The Family Institute.
Tel: 01443 483820 Email: [email protected]
21.10.06
Norfolk/Suffolk Regional UKCP Group Meeting.
21.10.07
04.10.06
Interviewing the Internalized other.The Family Institute
Norfolk/Suffolk regional UKCP group meeting.
Email [email protected]
22.10.06
Laing and Esterson: Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
40 years on. Family 9 – The Irwins (series).
Tel: 0208 888 6857 Email: [email protected]
October 2006
05.10.06 - 06.10.06 Anger and Stress Management 2 day course.The British
Association of Anger Management.
06.10.06
06.10.06
Attachment Theory in CAT, IPT, BT. CAT Scotland.
The KCC Foundation. Tel: 020 7720 7301
Email: [email protected] Website: www.kccfoundation.com
The Body In Mind. APP. Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0208 235 4046
22.10.06 - 15.10.06
Improving Healthcare:
The Challenge Of Continuous Change! Healthcare Commision
Website: www.isqua.org Tel: 020 7448 9200
28.10.06
Unconcious Processes In Couple Choice With Jenny Riddell.
WPF Counselling & Psychotherapy Tel 020 73614844
28.10.06
The analysis of a violent patient: a delusional transference.
Website: www.bap-psychotherapy.org Tel: 01865 553834
06.10.06 - 07.10.06 Therapy Today Exhibition 2006. BACP.
28.10.06 - 29.10.06 The Fourth APHP Annual Conference. APHP.
06.10.06 - 15.12.06
28.10.06
Every Friday to 15/12/06 plus weekend 28th &29th October.
Group Facilitation with Michael Ellis.The Gestalt Centre.
Website: www.gestaltcentre.co.uk
07.10.06
A World in Transition: Prospects for the Political Psyche. CAP.
07.10.06
UKCP Ethics Conference
'Living Ethics in the Post-Modern World'
11.10.06
The 3rd Annual Vulnerable and Intimidated Victims and
Witnesses Conference.Victim Support, NSPCC,VOICE.
Website: www.neilstewartassociates.com/li230
11.10.06
Community interest company.
Tel 07706491112 or Tel 07709805767
13.10.06 - 14.10.06 Body-language in the Therapeutic Encounter. Intergrative
Mindbody Therapy. Tel: 07733 074321 Email: [email protected]
14.10.06
14.10.06
14.10.06
14.10.06
Gasping for thought: reflections on the process of working
with delinquent and acting-out adolescents. BAP.
The Challenge from Trauma from Within and Without.WMIP.
Affairs From A Psychodynamic Perspective Relate.
Tel: 020 7387 3127
Breaking Boundaries? An Exploration Of Therapeutic Value
Of The Therapist Self-Disclosure. WPF Counselling & Psychotherapy.
Tel 020 7361 4844 Email: [email protected]
14.10.06 - 15.10.06 Training in Supervision. The Tuke Centre
14.10.06 -15.10.06
18.10.06
Training in Supervision: A Course For Supervisors
Tel: 01904430370 Email: [email protected]
Effective Medical Manager in Mental Health.
BAMM and Healthcare Events.
18.10.06 - 20.10.06 The Health Jigsaw - Making it Fit. MNHA Annual
Professional Conference 2006.
The Experience of Loss and the Search for Identity.
The Association of Independent Psychotherapists.
Tel: 020 8446 1251
November 2006
02.11.06
A Practical Guide to Nurse Led Care, Clinics and Services
in Mental Health. Healthcare Events.
Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 481 0356
02.11.06 - 03.11.06 Anger and Stress Management 2 day course.
The British Association of Anger Management.
04.11.06
UKCP EGM
05.11.06
Laing and Esterson: Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
40 years on. Family 10 - The Kings (series). Inner Circle
Seminar. Tel. 0208 888 6857 Email [email protected]
06.11.06 - 12.11.06 Hope Alive Training Course. Email: HopeAliveUK.org
Tel: 0117 9685390
09.11.06 - 12.11.06 Trauma in Organisations.The 35th GAS Workshop.
18.11.06
Adolescence and the Body Ego. BAP.
18.11.06
The Five Story Self Structure on the Communicube.
Workshop, Cambridge.
11.11.06
Therapeutic Family Tree Work With Individuals & Couples.
Realte Tel 020 7387 3127.Website www.relate.org.uk
11.11.06
Training In Supervision. The Tuke Centre.
Tel 01904 430 370 Website www.relate.org.uk
11.11.06 & 25.11.06 A Gestalt Style in Movement/Dance with Kay Lynn.
The Gestalt Centre.Tel: 020 7613 4480
Email: [email protected] Website: www.gestaltcentre.co.uk
Training Standards - Who needs them?
The current drive towards statutory registration
brings with it an ever-greater need for comparable
training standards and learning outcomes within
Psychotherapy and Counselling. UKCP’s Regulatory
Framework defines the principles and parameters
of what is necessary during training and by
ensuring accountability and transparency across
the Profession we can meet public and
Government scrutiny confidently.
A glance at the Occupational Standards for
Counselling quickly reveal the difference between
the standards that have sufficed to date and the
standards that the PC Section has set for it’s
Psychotherapeutic Counsellors. Whilst no-one
is interested in being ‘better than’, what the
Section aims to achieve is recognition for those
Counsellors who work at greater relational depth
than Occupational Standards have hitherto
required and whose competencies are closer
to those of a Psychotherapist.
We understand that the title Psychotherapist is
gained via longer academic trainings, mental health
placements and more clinical hours postqualification than many counsellors have attained
and the Section has created a new title which
respects that difference whilst also valuing the
many similarities in skills, particularly the
complexity of the person/client/patient within
the context of whichever theoretical model.
The PCS covers the range Bachelors (or equivalent)
to PG Cert and PG Dip, level 7 and trainings
will be of 3 years duration, leading to registration.
Anybody who qualified prior to the time when
3-year courses became the norm will be eligible
to apply for registration to the Section via APEL.
18..11.06
The full PC Section training standards are as follows:
Working With Erotic Transference & Counter Transference.
Relate Website: www.relate.org.uk Tel 020 7387 3127
18.11.06
Systemic Methods & Technique In Working With Couples.
Relate Tel 020 7387 3127 Website www.relate.org.uk
1.
19.10.06
23.11.06
Working at the Coal Face. CPC.
19.10.06
Are Good Intentions Enough? Connecting Strategy and
Member Retention. PARN Conferences.
Email: [email protected] Tel: 0117 929 4515
Cybersex & Couple Counselling. Relate
Tel: 0207387 3127 website www.relate.org.uk
23.11.06 - 26.11.06 African Chapter.World Council for Psychotherapy.
5th African Conference on Psychotherapy.
20.10.06
Working with Anger. London. CPC.
25.11.06
Holistic Approaches to Sex Therapy:The Clinician’s Perspective.
BASRT. Tel: 0208 543 2707 Email: [email protected]
20.10.06
‘Compulsivity and Addiction in the Counselling Room’ Ealing Abbey Counselling Service.
Email: [email protected] or telephone 020 8997 9836
26.11.06
Who’s Afraid Of Whom? Working Disturbed & Disturbing
People.The Andrew Sims Centre, Leeds.
Email: [email protected] Tel: 0113 305538
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PRINCIPLES TO BE ENSHRINED IN
ALL RELEVANT TRAINING PRACTICE
1.1 Recognition of and respect for the client’s
individual human rights.
1.2 Non-discriminatory practice in terms of race,
culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation
and disability, which frame the reality of the
client’s life.
1.3 Practitioner awareness of his/her level of
competence and limitations.
The course will offer training and
1.4 Practitioner awareness of his/her level of
power in the therapeutic relationship, the
nature of the practitioner’s personal and
relational process and the vulnerability of the
counselling client.
knowledge and understanding, which
1.5 Training in psychotherapeutic counselling will
enable the practitioner to work with a client
at an emotional level consistent with core
training modality.
1.6 The practitioner will normally have
consolidated his/her practice over a period
of training of three years with a minimum
of 100 hours client work before qualification,
leading to a total of 450 hours client work
to be registered.
1.7 The practitioner must normally address their
personal development requirements in
training through individual personal therapy.
This would be for a minimum of 50 hours.
development in the key areas of
will include:
3.1.1 Clear understanding of a core theoretical
model of counselling to include:
•
Core assumptions
•
A view of the person
•
Human Development
•
Theories of change
•
Mental health issues and risk assessment
3.1.2 Consideration of how the therapeutic
relationship and process underpin practice.
3.1.3 Consideration of the implications of various
theoretical concepts within a wide range of
practice settings and client groups including
longer term and short term work.
3.1.4 An appreciation of the impact of social,
cultural issues and difference on
“All training courses should have
a published selection criteria”
therapeutic practice.
3.1.5 Knowledge of relevant legal issues pertaining
to professional practice.
2.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
All training courses should have a published
selection criteria and selection procedures
that satisfy the following:
2.1
Entry should be at a minimum of
undergraduate level, covering the range
Bachelors (or equivalent) to PG Cert and
PG Dip and will allow for accreditation of
prior learning.
2.2 Identification by the training course of the
personal qualities, background and previous
experience that make candidates suitable for
training in the profession of psychotherapeutic
counselling.
3.
THE MINIMUM CURRICULUM
3. 1 Knowledge and Understanding
3.1.6 Exploration of the place of ethical
approaches to practice.
3.1.7 Recognition of the limits of the counsellor
and the counselling relationship and the
potential impact on boundaries and individual
client needs, including when referral may
be necessary.
3.1.8 A general knowledge of research methods
relevant to psychotherapeutic counselling.
3. 2 Use of Evaluation
The course will offer training and
development in the four main areas related
to evaluation of practice, which will include:
3.2.1 The development of critical self-reflection in
order to evaluate own clinical competence
and employ appropriate knowledge and skills
The study of theories that underpin the
practice of psychotherapeutic counselling
from assessment to conclusion.
in practice.
3.2.2 Effective use of supervision.
continued over...
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3.2.3 Exploration of how audit and evaluation may
contribute to the practitioners understanding
and development of practice and
consideration of how the practitioner may
provide evidence to contribute to such
evaluation in the practice setting.
3.2.4 The development of research skills in order
to test clinical hypotheses and judgment
through ongoing case experience and case study.
4.
REQUIRED LEARNING OUTCOMES
In order to complete the training programme
the psychotherapeutic counsellor will be
required to demonstrate progression through
the course in the following three key areas.
The training course will assess and evaluate
this progression by the psychotherapeutic
counsellor demonstrating competence in
these areas.
4.1 The personal development of the
psychotherapeutic counsellor.
a.
b.
c.
d.
To demonstrate the ability to apply learning,
drawing on personal therapy, experiential and
theoretical learning; in addition to clinical
practice and clinical supervision.
To demonstrate a capacity for self-reflection
to engage with the practitioner’s own
personal process and at a depth congruent
with the work being undertaken
To critically reflect on psychotherapeutic
processes from own perspectives of
counsellor, client and student and evaluate
implications for therapeutic practice.
and critical analysis of psychotherapeutic
counselling practice within an ethical
framework and context.
4.3 The development of professional practice
and transferable skills.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
To appreciate the integration and limits of
different approaches to practice.
To demonstrate the ability to choose an
appropriate therapeutic response and
evaluate the outcome from both client and
counsellor perspectives.
To demonstrate the capacity and ability to
bring awareness of personal and interpersonal processes to the therapeutic
relationship, taking into account the social
and cultural context of their clients.
Within the complex and unpredictable
nature of practice apply appropriate
knowledge and skills to manage
problem situations.
To critically analyse differing theoretical
perspectives and integrate appropriately
that which assists with therapeutic practice.
To be able to set theory within a wider
theoretical perspective
c.
To draw conclusions about aspects of current
counselling research and relate implications
to therapeutic practice.
d.
e.
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To critically review and reflect on practice
considering theoretical underpinning and
recognising limits to knowledge.
To demonstrate a conceptual understanding
5.3 Each training course shall be validated through
the psychotherapeutic counselling section.
5.4 The section shall review the validation of
every training course at intervals of not
more than five years.
5.5 All training courses shall have published criteria
and procedures for selection of trainees.
5.6 Training courses shall publish the Code of
Practice/Ethical framework to which they
To interact effectively with a learning or
professional group and negotiate within
either setting and manage conflict.
of practice.
With minimum guidance manage own
learning in order to make appropriate use
of learning resources, personal therapy and
clinical supervision to practice as an
independent counsellor.
To demonstrate the capacity to negotiate
appropriate contracts and maintain
boundaries within the different stages of the
psychotherapeutic counselling relationship
and process.
adhere.These shall be congruent with the
To recognise client issues that need the
attendance of another professional and refer
the client appropriately.
i.
To demonstrate an awareness of ethical
issues and the ability to address
ethical dilemmas.
j.
To demonstrate an awareness of diversity
and the ability to respond to difference.
5.
MINIMUM TRAINING COURSE
REQUIREMENTS
5.1 The training shall be at undergraduate or
postgraduate level.
6.
ASSESSMENT
6.2 Institutional regulations
The purpose and modes of assessment and
the institutional regulations regarding
assessment will be clearly stated taking into
account the need for the following:
6.2. 1 A properly constituted body for the
assessment of students.
6.1 The purpose and modes of assessment
6.1.1 The links between clinical competences,
chosen theoretical model and sound ethical
practice will be articulated within the modes
and criteria for assessment.
6.12 The modes of assessment (such as
supervisor’s reports, portfolios, journals,
written examinations, vivas, essays), evidence
of personal development and criteria for
assessment will be clearly set out and made
available to trainees. Both formative and
summative assessment methods and their
purpose will be included.
6.1.3 The ways in which the purpose and modes
of assessment relate to the learning
outcomes will be clearly identified.
6.2.2 The fair and consistent design of assessment
across different orientations and training routes.
7.3 Where further development is required,
the definition of such further professional
development might include considerations
relating to the nature of supervision, the
range, quantity and intensity of practice
and/or study and personal therapy.
6.2.3 The provision of external assessment of both
theory and practice by practitioners qualified
and experienced in an appropriate
theoretical model.
7.4 Where qualification and registration do not
coincide, the process of assessment of
readiness for registration shall correspond in
general to the requirements of Section 4 above.
6.2.4 Published appeal procedures in the event of
disagreement over assessment.
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QUALIFICATION
AND REGISTRATION
7
7.1 Training organisations shall specify whether
qualification coincides with recognition of
candidates as eligible for registration by UKCP.
7.2 Where qualifications and registration do not
coincide, organisations are to specify what
further professional development is required
for registration, or to state if the trainee
UKCP’s, Sections’ and Institutional Members’
general guidelines on ethics and codes
5.7 Training courses shall have mechanisms for
safeguarding the rights of students including
6.1.4 The provision of opportunities for regular
feedback (through both formative and
summative processes) to enable students
to assess their own strengths and
developmental needs.
should not be encouraged to continue in this
direction. It would be expected that this
would be identified as early as possible
during the training.
CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
8.1 Training organisations shall bear in mind a
commitment to life long learning and the
need for monitoring practice for the best
protection of the public.
8.2 Each training organisation should make
provision for an ongoing graduate body
either as an integral part of the organisation
or clearly linked to it.
8.3 Training organisations shall encourage their
graduates actively to consider their
continuing professional development needs.
8.4 Training Organisations must make provision
for the continued professional development
of their graduates.
consultation procedures and complaints and
grievance procedures.
5.8 Training courses shall publish a Trainee’s
Handbook that has clear information on the
length and time frame of courses, a definition
of supervised practice and personal therapy
requirements and with clear details of course
requirements, curricula and modes
of assessment.
5.9 Courses may have methods and regulations
h.
b.
5.2 The length of training should be appropriate
to permit the consolidation and integration
of theoretical knowledge, personal development
and clinical experience. It will not normally
be less than three years part-time. These details
will be clearly published including requirements
for supervised practice with clients.
The minimum will be 450 hours of skills and
theory with 100 hours of supervised client
work pre qualification.
To communicate in a professional manner
and produce detailed and coherent verbal
and written case studies and essays that
integrate theory and practice.
4.2 The development of intellectual skills.
a.
for the processing of APL and APEL
(accreditation of prior learning and
Editorial Policy
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them informed on developments likely to impact on their psychotherapy practice. From time to time The Psychotherapist
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expressed should be taken only as those of the author and not of The Psychotherapist.
The material in The Psychotherapist is only provided for general information purposes and does not constitute
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for any loss which may arise from reliance on the information contained in The Psychotherapist.
It is a condition of your subscription to The Psychotherapist that you accept that the UKCP is not liable for any loss
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5.11 The student will receive supervision of
his/her client work in a ratio of a minimum
of 1 hour’s supervision to 6 client hours.
An appropriately qualified and experienced
supervisor, who will have input to the
assessment of the student, should provide
the supervision.
The Serenity Rooms-London W14
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experiential learning).
5.10 The training course shall publish and practice
an equal opportunities policy in line with UKCP
guidelines on Diversity and Equal Opportunities
conferences
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Whilst every effort is made to ensure the content in The Psychotherapist is accurate and true, on occasion there may
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The advertiser is responsible for ensuring that the advertisement meets the criteria of the Advertising Guidelines of
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multidisciplinary clinic in central
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Training Programme, London: 2007
Present a CPD workshop with
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Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation
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This demanding course starts from the premise that it
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Masterclass
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This course is both self explorative, experiential and
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