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The UK Council for Psychotherapy is the body that holds the largest register of psychotherapists in the UK. Although all Bowlby Centre graduates are placed on the register (as long as they pay the fee), individual registrants are not actually members of the UKCP. Membership of UKCP has hitherto been restricted to organizations; so The Bowlby Centre is a member of the UKCP, and, therefore, is entitled to send two delegates along to the UKCP annual conference, along with delegates from seventy or so other member organizations.
The organizations are grouped into several modalities: psychoanalytic and Jungian; humanistic and integrative; family and systemic; experiential and constructivist; and hypo-psychotherapy. The Bowlby Centre is a member of the Psychoanalytic and Jungian section, now known as the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (CPJA). The preoccupation of the UKCP for the last year has been the new ‘shape’ of the UKCP, and state regulation. This year's conference was largely concerned with report-backs from those activities.
There are a host of ‘initiatives’ being taken by various organs of the state with regards to regulation. The principal regulatory thrust is coming from the Health Professions Council, which has been charged by the government with bringing both psychotherapists and counsellors under the umbrella of the state. Last year, the HPC set up a professional liaison group (PLG) which sent out requests to anyone who felt they might have something interesting to say. The PLG has to come up with a set of proposals and recommendations about what state regulation might look like, and it has held a whole series of discussions around that. The PLG is chaired by Professor Di Waller, an arts psychotherapist, who played a key role in bring the arts psychotherapists into the HPC ten or more years ago.