Accreditation
Introduction
Without regulation and statutory registration for our
profession, our policy has been to seek meaningful external
accreditation for our training. We first achieved such
accreditation in 1993 and our latest re-accreditation was in
2004.
In the event of regulation and statutory registration, our
external accreditation should be invaluable to our graduates.
Meanwhile, it is an assurance to potential students bewildered by
competing claims.
Note to potential students: Some
enquirers have asked why the National College is not affiliated
with certain "Hypnotherapy Organisations". It is our policy that we
will only align ourselves with organisations which have meaningful
and verifiable means of accreditation. The profession has many
organisations which will give you a certificate for a fee. We, as
one of the oldest schools of professional hypnosis and
psychotherapy, believe that we should take a leadership position
with this and not support bodies which have only been created to
give out meaningless credentials and to turn a profit for its
owners.
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), formerly
the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy, was
formed in 1989 with the aim of establishing the profession of
psychotherapy, with agreed common training standards and ethical
requirements. Over 70 organisations involved in the field of
psychotherapy, including both the National College of Hypnosis and
Psychotherapy (NCHP) and the National Register of Hypnotherapists
and Psychotherapists (NRHP), currently belong to the UKCP.
In May 1993, the UKCP launched its National Register of
Psychotherapists, and also produced Training and Ethical Standards
Requirements for member organisations. The National College's
training programme has been confirmed as meeting UKCP requirements
and the UKCP ethical guidelines are incorporated within our Code of
Ethics and Practice.
Details of supplementary training for those wishing to fulfil
the requirements for membership of the UKCP's National Register of
Psychotherapists are, in brief: Interactive Counselling Skills;
Psychopathology; Research Methodology; Ethics; Human Development
& Sexuality. Other requirements are as detailed in our full
Prospectus. It should be noted that the UKCP's Register, like our
own National Register (NRHP), is a voluntary body, and continued
membership of a UKCP approved professional organisation, such as
the NRHP, is a condition of membership of the UKCP's Register.
UKCP has worked with Lord Alderdice to produce his Psychotherapy
Bill; if successful, the new Act will create a Governing
Psychotherapy Council, so confirming our professional status.
The National College is a founder member of the European
Association for Hypno Psychotherapy (EAHP). The EAHP is a
non-profit making organisation aiming to unite national
Hypno-Psychotherapy training institutes and national
Hypno-Psychotherapy organisations into a common association for
Europe.
The intention of the EAHP is the realisation of a European Wide
Organisation (EWO) and a European Wide Accrediting Organisation
(EWAO) for Hypno-Psychotherapy within the European Association for
Psychotherapy (EAP) in Vienna, Austria (of which the National
College is a member).
The EAP represents some 200 psychotherapy organisations,
including 16 national umbrella organisations, and 12 EWOs
(representing various psychotherapeutic approaches). It aims to
establish psychotherapy as an independent profession within Europe
and, to this end, has created the European Certificate for
Psychotherapy (ECP). The intention behind the ECP is the mutual
recognition and equal conduct of various branches of psychotherapy
throughout Europe.
The EAHP anticipates that membership of EAP as an EWO would help
consolidate our own discipline of Hypno-Psychotherapy within Europe
and facilitate the award of the ECP to suitably qualified
Hypno-Psychotherapists.
The National Council for Hypnotherapy holds one of the largest
registers of independent Hypnotherapists in the United Kingdom and
strives to maintain the highest standards among its members.
The NATIONAL COUNCIL for HYPNOTHERAPY, the largest Hypnotherapy
register mentioned in the recent Exeter University report on
Complementary Medicine (Second Edition) is striving to meet ALL the
guidelines suggested by this report for the regulation of
Complementary Medicine. Via the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy
Organisations, we are actively involved with the Foundation for
Integrative Medicine and the future of the profession.
There is an agreed Code of Conduct, an established Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure and all
members are obliged to maintain comprehensive Public Liability
& Professional Indemnity Insurance
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