Regulatory Role
The UKCP regards the regulation of psychotherapists and the public accountability of their practice as of paramount importance. This is in order to safeguard the interests of patients and clients and the reputation of registered practitioners. The present Register is voluntary, in other words it is not required by any Act of Parliament, but the UKCP is campaigning with other related organisations for the statutory regulation of the 'talking therapy' professions.
The UKCP delegates the accreditation and re-accreditation of members to UKCP organisational members. Organisational members may be training, accrediting or both. Individual psychotherapists can only join the UKCP register following accreditation by one of these organisations. At present there is no way of registering directly with UKCP.
The UKCP does not run courses leading to UKCP accreditation - these are provided by its organisational members. Some training organisations also accredit and will award Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) or give credit for previous training experience.
Candidates for registration who trained on a course that does not lead directly to membership need to seek accreditation by an accrediting organisational member.
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