Other UK Counselling Organizations
- COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland)
COSCA is a professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, which seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills.
According to the organizations website, COSCA’s aims are to increase accessibility to counselling and psychotherapy, develop ethically-based professional standards and quality assurance for counselling, psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills, increase access to training and information on counselling, psychotherapy and counselling skills, deliver a range of services that meet the needs of the counselling and psychotherapy field, provide opportunities for sharing knowledge, experience and resources for the advancement of counselling, psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills in Scotland.
- The Counselling Society
The Counselling Society is one of a number of UK counselling professional organizations. According to the introduction on their website in 2007, the Counselling Society launched a campaign by contacting every UK MP, Peer and other national stakeholder via Blake’s Parliamentary Yearbook. To propose a criminal offence of “abuse by a healthcare professional” which would include counsellors, as a matter of public safety. This would give courts powers to ban abusive counsellors from practising.
- The Human Givens Institute
According to their main page the Human Givens Institute (HGI) is a membership organization and resource open to anyone wishing to support the new school of psychology known as the Human Givens approach.
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