STATE REGULATION - THE ISSUES
A day to explore the impact of the proposed Health Professions Council regulation of psychotherapy and counselling and possible outcomes
A day to explore the impact of the proposed Health Professions Council regulation of psychotherapy and counselling and possible outcomes
Conference
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PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2010
9.30 Questions to the panel: The panellists will be asked to answer a range of questions relevant to their expertise
LEGAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
FITNESS TO PRACTICE
STANDARDS OF PROFIENCY
REGULATION OF TRAINING
- What is the best solution for addressing the widely expressed concerns on HPC regulation for psychotherapists and counsellors?
- What scope remains for amendments to the government's decision to regulate psychotherapy and counselling via the Health Professions Council?
- Is there scope for further negotiation with the Health Professions Council on the details?
FITNESS TO PRACTICE
- What, according to research, is the best structure for resolving patient complaints and reassuring the public? A body that is independent of the profession or one that is self-regulating?
- Bearing in mind that the HPC's Fitness to Practice procedures are designed to cover all the professions it regulates, could there be specific and more nuanced provision made for psychotherapists and counsellors?
- The Health Professions Council will have the powers to remove a practitioner from the register or apply other sanctions. How will this be an improvement on the existing role of profession-led ethics committees?
STANDARDS OF PROFIENCY
- Is there a risk some psychotherapy and counselling qualifications will not be accepted by the HPC?
- How does the HPC intend to enforce its Standards of Proficiency within the domain of private practice?
- Many of the Standards of Proficiency are raising concerns because they are based on a formula for diagnosis, formulation of treatment plan, and evidence this has been followed. What scope is there for this to be refined?
- Will the HPC's proposed Standards of Proficiency restrict practice by not having sufficient psychotherapeutic knowledge to understand the causes of ruptures in the practitioner-patient relationship when transference and enactment are at the root of a complaint?
REGULATION OF TRAINING
- How does the HPC intend to influence and regulate psychotherapy and counselling training curricula?
- How will they approach the matter of improving standards of practice?
- What will be the role of independent training organisations in the post-regulation culture?
- What will the role of the current professional regulatory bodies (UKCP, BACP, BPC)?
11.30 Coffee
12.0 Questions from the audience
13.0 Lunch
14.0 Café Conversation:
Managing the tension between the needs of the therapist and the patient: how is this best achieved?
Managing the tension between the needs of the therapist and the patient: how is this best achieved?
Two speakers will summarise the issues briefly and then the conference participants will explore answers to this question via a café conversation. This is an excellent methodology for a large group discussion, where the aim is to collectively answer a question of mutual concern. This will be facilitated by Sarah Lewis.
15.50 Large group consultation process
The conference puts fresh questions and views to the panellists and considers what courses of action might unfold.
17.0 End
SPEAKERS
Dr Lynne Gabriel, Chair os British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Professor Darian Leader, Representative of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy Against State Regulation.
Julian Lousada, Chair, British Psychoanalytic Council.
Professor Andrew Samuels, Chair, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Marc Seale, Chief Executive and Registrar, Health Professions Council.
Professor Diana Waller, Chair, Counsellors and Psychotherapists Professional Liaison Group of the HPC.
Dr Michael Fischer, Research Fellow in Healthcare Management, Kings College London
Professor Darian Leader, Representative of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy Against State Regulation.
Julian Lousada, Chair, British Psychoanalytic Council.
Professor Andrew Samuels, Chair, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Marc Seale, Chief Executive and Registrar, Health Professions Council.
Professor Diana Waller, Chair, Counsellors and Psychotherapists Professional Liaison Group of the HPC.
Dr Michael Fischer, Research Fellow in Healthcare Management, Kings College London
PROGRAMME BROCHURE
PDF brochure of full programme.
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