Følgende er uddrag af vedtægterne for ECP, hele vedtægten kan læses på EAPs hjemmeside www.europsyche.org.

Preamble
In 1991, the European Association for Psychotherapy was founded in Vienna, Austria by a number of European countries.

It now brings together nearly 200 organisations, from about 40 Europeancountries, with both national organisations and European-wide organisations in many differentmodalities, and by that, more than 120 000 psychotherapists.

The European Association for Psychotherapy (hereafter, the EAP) is concerned to protect the
interest of this profession and the public it serves, by ensuring that the profession functions at an appropriate level of training and practice.

One of its aims is to establish an European Certificate ofPsychotherapy (hereafter, the ECP), which will help ensure that psychotherapists are trained to the EAP's standards and which will help guarantee the mobility of professional psychotherapists.

This is in accordance with the aims of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the nondiscrimination accord valid within the framework of the European Union (EU), and the principle of freedom of movement of persons and services.

The European Certificate of Psychotherapy is in alignment with the European Standard EN 45013.
The 21st of October 1990 Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy is the bedrock of its
commitment to creating a compatible and independent profession of psychotherapy across
Europe.

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Length and content of psychotherapy training:
4.1. The total duration of the training will not be less than 3200 hours, spread over a minimum of seven years, with the first three years being the equivalent of a university degree. The later four years of which must be in a training specific to psychotherapy.

The EAP will, in collaboration with NAOs and EWAOs, determine the proportion of the training elements that need to be completed prior to the ECP being awarded.

4.2. The training meets the EAP's criteria for basic professional training, and includes the following elements:

4.2.1. Personal Psychotherapeutic Experience, or equivalent. This should be taken to include training analysis, self-experience, and other methods involving elements of self-reflection, therapy, and personal experience (not less than 250 hours).

No single term is agreed by all psychotherapy methods. Any training shall include arrangements to ensure that the trainees can identify and appropriately manage their involvement in and contributions to the processes of the psychotherapies that they practice in accordance with their specific methods.

4.2.2. Theoretical Study
There will be a general part of university or professional training and a part which is specific to psychotherapy. University or professional courses leading to a first University degree or its equivalent professional qualification in subjects relevant to psychotherapy may be allowed as a part of, or the whole of, the general part of psychotherapy theory, but cannot contribute towards the 4 years of specific psychotherapy training.

Theoretical study during the 4 years of training specific to psychotherapy should include the following elements:
• Theories of human development throughout the life-cycle
• An understanding of other psychotherapeutic approaches
• A theory of change
• An understanding of social and cultural issues in relation to psychotherapy
• Theories of psychopathology
• Theories of assessment and intervention

4.2.3. Practical Training
This will include sufficient practice under continuous supervision appropriate to the psychotherapeutic modality and will be at least two years in duration.

4.2.4. Placement in a mental health setting, or equivalent professional experience.
The placement must provide adequate experience of psycho-social crisis and of collaboration with other specialists in the mental health field.

4.3. Supervision, training and, where applicable, personal psychotherapy should be provided by practitioners whose training meets the criteria of the ECP.
Advanced trainings for trainers and supervisors are not covered by these criteria, but will be required.

Yderligere oplysninger og vejledning om ansøgning af ECP certifikat kan fås ved henvendelse til SPFD på www.spfd.dk