Bacp accreditation how many hours

The last three submitted years must have been supervised in accordance with paragraph 2. Can provide evidence of a combination of:. This includes a requirement for at least hours of counselling practice supervised in accordance with paragraph 2, over three years. Applicants claiming two or more training units must show a balance of theory and skills approximately in line with that stated in 1. Four or five years of supervised practice of hours minimum per year under formal supervision.

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It is a requirement to belong to a professional body, as a student member, from the start of joining the main psychotherapy training programme at smcp.

The modality of practice i. You can belong to more than one professional organisation if you wish. Belonging to a professional body offers kite-mark status for individuals and enables the general public to be sure that you, as a practitioner, have met and continue to meet professional standards of practice. UKCP and BACP offer different levels of membership from student status to qualified practitioner status and they also have different levels of membership in between these two for those on their training journey.

Please scroll down for: BACP requirements to become fully accredited members and levels of membership open to students. UKCP requirements to become fully accredited members and levels of membership open to students.

To initially become a member of BACP individuals must be a student on either: 1. A BACP accredited training programme or 2. The form will be emailed as an attachment to the email address entered. Payment of the application processing fee is required prior to receiving the application form. Please note that the processing fee is not refundable. Once an application is received an email receipt is sent to the Applicant.

Please make sure that the email address is correct on your application and it is an address that you check regularly. Fully completed applications are assessed by the Accreditation Secretary and the Accreditation Committee, if necessary. Once approved all applications are screened by the Complaints Committee. When approved- a confirmation email and a PDF version of the Certificate of Accreditation will be sent to you.

Please note: As of January a hard copy of the certificate of accreditation will be issued only on request. Only fully completed applications will be processed. Incomplete applications will be rejected.

Any inaccurate or false information or omission of information on an application form shall render that application invalid. Application Processing Times. If there is a query on the application, you will be notified by email and the application will be reviewed by the Accreditation Committee. If this happens then it may take longer than 3 months to process. If an application is not complete or additional information is required then the processing time may be longer.

At certain times of the year or if the volume of applications is high it may take longer for your application to be processed. This website uses strictly necessary session cookies only.

Dealing with such an aggressive unethical organisation must have been nightmarish. I have many years of bureaucracy ahead of me! Hi Amanda, that does seem like a nightmare and such a long process for you to go through, though I'm sure your learning has been beneficial in all sorts of ways in your practice.

I have been putting off applying for my own accreditation because of the long process and after a couple of false starts I am about to start again. It has to be done. The beginning of your post interests me greatly: many prospective counselling students enter the education journey not realising the investment, time, emotionally and cost, when they start.

No other course I know of has this amount of additional investment. And I wanted to say congratulations, after 13 years of practising, I hope to finally set time by and make a concerted effort to get my accreditation. Interesting to find your blog and inspiring , thanks. I did a two year diploma at Plymouth university in , and they pulled out of their accredited status.

Which meant on completing the course, I had start at the beginning again re accreditation process. Now three years later and having practiced for 14 years within the Nhs, I still feel daunted about completing this all alone and yet I must.

I need to set a time table and get on with it, and perhaps find some support regarding getting my essays read etc. Thank you for your comment James. Wishing you well for your many years of bureaucracy and beyond :. Hi Karin Thank you for reading and for your kind words. Good luck with applying.

I hope you get round to it. I'm so glad I did it although it's easy to say that from the other side! Please keep me posted. Hello Kaye What a blow re the course pulling out. Yes it does seem very daunting when you look at the info for applying for accreditation. I think many people me included just took it a step at a time and crafted it over a series of months.

Bite size chunks each week definitely help it seem more manageable. Mind you, I'm so late responding to your comment you may be well into the process! Good luck with it all!

Thank you so much for writing this, I have been dragging my heels since April, feeling completely daunted by the prospect of writing a case study and trying to select a client that proves im a "good counsellor".

I want to experience that feeling of validation, this has really spurred me on!! Dear Anonymous, many thanks for your comment. I am so glad that you feel spurred on. Please let me know how you get on.