Partnership with PESI UK

We partnered with PESI UK, the largest psychotherapy online education provider in Europe, to bring you the very best and latest continuing professional development (CPD), education, and events across psychotherapy topics and modalities. All EAP members, ECP holders registered with EAP, and students of EAPTI’s are entitled to a special EAP 15% discount off any PESI UK online course, digital recording or live event. Please use code EAP2020 when booking to claim your discount. More Information   PESI UK

EAP Member Information #1|2020

Find a copy of our newsletter here: mailchi.mp/europsyche.org/eap-member-information-880606?e  

A-AD/PD™ Focus Meeting 2020, 2-5 April 2020 in Vienna, Austria

Late Breaking Submission Deadline 25 November 2019 Late breaking abstract submission is open, giving you one last chance to join the scientific program at #AATADPD 2020 in Vienna! Take this important step in your professional development and present your findings on a prestigious stage dedicated to advancing research and treatment of #Alzheimers, #Parkinsons and related neurodegenerative diseases. Submit by 25 November: 

Vol 23, No 3, Nov 2019

A 'Special Issue' on Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy

• Editorial Courtenay Young
• Editorial for this Special Issue Biljana van Rijn & William Cornell
• Why Transactional Analysis Works: Reasons for a Possible Explanation of Change in Psychotherapy Laura Bastianelli, Maria Teresa Tosi, Rosanna Giacometto, Cinzia Messana & Davide Ceridono
• Psychological Games in the Consulting Room Jo Stuthridge & Charlotte Sills
• Relational Group Process: Developments in a Transactional Analysis Model of Group Psychotherapy Richard G. Erskine
• Working with Groups in TA: An integrative approach William Cornell
• A Psycho-Tactile Approach to Trauma Gerry Pyves
• Using Transactional Analysis to Treat Perinatal Mental Illness Emma Hayes
• Single-Case Design Review and Meta-Analysis for Supporting the Method of Transactional Analysis towards Recognition as an Empirically Supported Treatment for Depression En
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EAP’s Next Steps: Mapping the ECP into ECTS to gain EQF-7

The ECP is essentially a “training certificate", a recognition that a person has been trained to a level recognised by a national and/or modality professional psychotherapy organisations represented within EAP. All the European academic and professional trainings are now being measured using the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). This document proposes a new forward strategy for the EAP to convert the current ECP into the ECTS system. Since the ECP is a post-graduate professional training, the 4-year psychotherapy training programme would be set at a Master’s degree level - at Level 7 within the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) - EQF-7. This ‘Next Steps’ - a briefing paper - explains the current situation; the relevant frameworks; other issues; and looks forward to this new status. Mapping the ECP into ECTS to gain EQF-7: A Briefing Paper for new ‘forward st

EAP Member Information #2|2019

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German Parliament voted on a new Psychotherapy law on September 26, 2019

Honorary President Alfred Pritz is delighted to announce that the German Parliament voted on a new Psychotherapy law on September 26, 2019. In a mailing to all EAP Board members he wrote:

"I want to inform You that the German parliament has voted for a new psychotherapists law which ends the dominance of psychology over psychotherapy. It is not necessary to be a psychologist or medical doctor before becoming a psychotherapist: The law creates a new academic discipline of psychotherapy ...

Vol 23, No 2, July 2019

• Editorial: A New 'Look' for the IJP Courtenay Young
• From repeated impingement to cumulative trauma: A psychodynamic approach to the development of obsessional thinking – in some cases John O'Connor
• Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD) & Treatment Response to Psychodynamic Therapy versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Case Study Rami Abukamil & Shibany P. Taormina
• “Thinking Outside of the Box”: An unconventional intervention Avromi Deutch & Seymour Hoffman

EAP Booklet available

The Marketing Group has been working on the EAP Psychotherapy Booklet, which can be used when calling on politicians, mental health professionals, the legal profession, and so forth. The 20-page booklet has been designed to support and promote psychotherapy in Europe. Europe’s citizens deserve accessibility to quality-assured psychotherapy.

The booklet also focuses on the adoption of the Psychotherapy Act by the European Union, thus granting the same professional standing as has been given to other professions in recent years. It is available...

New EAP Folder is available