UKCP standards and policy statements

UKCP professional occupational standards

This document maps the contemporary competencies and meta-competencies of our colleges and standing faculties. We believe that educators, commissioners of services, trainers and practitioners in the fields of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling will find it a useful and robust tool, supporting their work.

UKCP standards of training and practice

UKCP guidance on declaration of criminal convictions

UKCP child psychotherapy and psychotherapy with children standards of training and practice

These documents present a framework for the assessment of trainings in child psychotherapy offered under the auspices of UKCP.

Ethics - ethical principles and code of professional conduct

This document defines minimum generic ethical principles which UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors commit to and maintain.

UKCP statement on the 'reparative' therapy of members of sexual minorities

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.
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UKCP diversity and equalities statement

UKCP promotes an active engagement with difference and therefore seeks to provide a framework for the professions of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counseling that allows competing and diverse ideas and perspectives on what it means to be human to be considered, respected and valued.
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UKCP statement on torture

UKCP condemns the use of physical and mental torture. UKCP's focus is on promoting professional standards and the well being of clients/patients, including survivors of torture, it would therefore be abhorrent for a member to be involved in any way with mistreatment of detainees in any circumstances.
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UKCP 2010 audit statement

As part of our quality assurance processes UKCP undertakes annual random audits of individual members on the UKCP Register.
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UKCP policy for Continuing Professional Development

Data protection policy

 
 
 
 

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