Supporting diversity, responsibility, autonomy and innovation in the psychological therapies
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Andrew Samuels, Brian Thorne & Haya Oakley
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Last updated October 31st 2011
ABOUT THE ALLIANCE
The Alliance is a peer group of practitioners with diverse modalities and interests
which came together in 2009, a time when many psychotherapists and counsellors were
disturbed and unconvinced by proposals for state regulation of their field by the
Health Professions Council (HPC), a medical quango set up by the previous government.
Many felt that, for the sake of both the profession and of their clients, they would
be unable to comply with such an inappropriate regulatory regime and stated publicly
that they would not join the proposed register, opting instead for what became known
as ‘principled non-
Thousands of practitioners signed a petition against regulation by the HPC. Amidst mounting opposition from the field and eventually from major professional bodies such as UKCP and BACP, the plans were eventually dropped by the incoming coalition government, to be replaced by a proposal for a system of accredited registers administered by the new Professional Standards Authority (formerly CHRE). The Alliance has extended a cautious welcome to the Coalition’s new consensual approach.
More recently the Alliance launched a new petition calling for the reform of the ‘NICE guidelines’ used in the commissioning of psychological therapies and an end to the unwarranted bias they display towards Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which unjustifiably restricts choice and means many clients are unable to access the therapy of their choice (see above). Within the first two weeks the petition had been signed by some 3000 practitoners.
You can read the original Alliance statement on state regulation here.
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‘Reform the NICE guidelines and end the bias towards Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the IAPT programme’
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(5000 already and counting)
Click here to read or download the latest Alliance press release (14th November)
APPEAL FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PSYCHOANALYST RAFAH NACHED, imprisoned by the Syrian
regime in Damascus.
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