The Professional Competencies of a European Psychotherapist

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Appendix 4: EAP Training Standards

• The EAP's European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) document sets out the training standards and criteria necessary for the award of the ECP. To date, nearly 6,000 people have been awarded the ECP in about 51 different countries: see here.
• Process: The ECP document has been updated and refined regularly and recommendations for any changes go first to the European Training Standards Committee (ETSC) for approval and ratification. The EAP Board is then informed and has to approve the changes by majority vote.
• The most recent version of the ECP document is available as a download in PDF format here and information about how to apply for an ECP is available on the EAP website here.
• Criteria for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) have also been established and are now a part of the ECP document.
• An overview of the ECP document, its process and scope, by Serge Ginger - the EAP Registrar, is available (as a download in PDF format) here.
• The ECP is being researched under SEPT: the Survey of European Psychotherapy Training: SEPT is a European-wide survey to assess the impact of the European Certificate of Psychotherapy. SEPT is a Leonardo da Vinci Project, funded by the European Commission.


• Training Schools:There is a secondary process of accrediting psychotherapy training schools so that they can become a European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute (EAPTI), whose training is to the ECP standard, and whose graduates are therefore capable of being awarded the ECP at the conclusion of their training by 'Direct Award'. Details of this process are laid out in the most recent version of the 'Training & Accreditation Committee' (TAC) Regulations document, and are available from the EAP website here.
• The TAC Regulations document, the Direct Award Application Form and Procedure, etc. are also available as downloads in PDF format from the above site.
• This process of accreditation also involves appointing experienced people to act as 'International Experts' capable of assessing of these schools. More details of these are in the above document.
• By 2010, the EAP has already recognised about 54 EAPTIs in 19 different countries here or search here, and has appointed about 18 International Experts.
• The ECP document also forms the basis for a professional training in psychotherapy in countries like Japan, Mexico and Lebanon, who have their own Certificates of Psychotherapy, based on the ECP.
• The World Council of Psychotherapy also uses the ECP document as a basis for its Certificate of Psychotherapy, the WCPC. Details of this are available here.

Working Group on Professional Competencies: committee@psychotherapy-competency.eu

 

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