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NAFSIYAT Intercultural Therapy Centre

Jafar Kareem Bursary (for ethnic minority trainees)

Following the untimely death of Jafar Kareem (Founder of Nafsiyat) in 1992, a fund was set up in his memory by his family and friends. The main purpose of the fund is to provide bursaries to ethnic minority students to help with the costs of their psychotherapy training.

Carmen Joanne Ablack, UKCP's  Professional Liason Group (PLG) representative, reports on the Health Profession Council's (HPC) PLG meeting held on 12 May 2010. This meeting was to review the results of the December consultation and to set out a work plan for the next phase of work.

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Issue six of the UKCP Bulletin:

• Self, other and society - UKCP's annual conference in York , 3-5 September 2010

UKCP is conducting a survey about research to ensure that members' views and needs are represented in its work and to help plan priorities within the research faculty.

UKCP's Diversity Equalities and Social Responsibility Committee (DESRC) has set up a workgroup to look into start up support groups for psychotherapists from minority communities.

A brief guide to a range of therapies, published by the Telegraph newspaper.

This meeting was to review the results of the December consultation and to set out a work plan for the next phase of work.

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GOVERNMENT TO END DETENTION OF CHILD ASYLUM SEEKERS
The new coalition Government has included this commitment in their agreed policy priorities, published 12th May 2010.

Statutory regulation of psychotherapy has been in the news recently.

You may have heard allegations that the regulation policies of UKCP have not been properly developed or scrutinised before they have been published. The Board has asked me to issue this statement to reassure people about our inclusive approach to policy development. 
David Pink, Chief Executive

Information about the KCC Foundation for UKCP members and students

The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the principal professional body for the UK psychotherapeutic community, has produced the first definitive suite of professional occupational standards in the delivery of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling.

UKCP does not consider homosexuality or bisexuality, or transsexual and transgendered states to be pathologies, mental disorders or indicative of developmental arrest. These are not symptoms to be treated by psychotherapists, in the sense of attempting to change or remove them.

Being Mum Season: I Hate Mum - Tuesday, 9th February 2010, 10:35pm BBC One

On 25 January 2010, Confer held a conference on statutory regulation of counselling and psychotherapy. In the opening panel discussion UKCP chair, Professor Andrew Samuels, set out UKCP's multi-track approach.