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The Council of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists was inaugurated on 13 September 1993. At this meeting the Shadow Registration and Ethics Committee informed the Shadow Council that they had completed their scrutiny of the training standards and codes of ethics of the participating organisations and recommended that they be approved for membership of the Confederation. This was accepted. The Constitution and the documentation covering training standards, codes of ethics and guidelines for membership had already been voted on at previous meetings.
The following organisations were present and thus constitute the first Council of the Confederation: The Association of Child Psychotherapists, The Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the National Health Service, The British Association of Psychotherapists, The British Psycho-Analytical Society, The Lincoln Clinic and Institute for Psychotherapy, The Scottish Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists, The Scottish Institute of Human Relations, The Society of Analytical Psychology, The Society of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists and The Tavistock Clinic. The newly formed Council voted for five of its members to form the first Executive Committee.
The first task of the Council will be to publish the nearly completed Register of practitioner members of the BCP.
Over the coming months the Executive Committee will negotiate with relevant professional and public bodies to form the proposed Advisory Board whose function it will be to advise the BCP Council in relation to its polices and practices.
In June of this year an observer from the BCP attended the Conference held by the Vienna-based European Association for Psychotherapy.
During the Summer, members of the Confederation participated in the Department of Employment's Feasibility Study to see if psychotherapy and counselling have a functional overlap and to see if psychotherapy could be appropriately included within the remit of the