The Child Psychotherapy Council Information Meeting

The importance of the Child Psychotherapy Council and why your support is needed now

The Child Psychotherapy Council Information Meetings took place on

Thursday 13th February and Thursday 24th April, 7pm to 8.30pm via Zoom.

Our chair, Bozena Merrick, gave an overview of the Child Psychotherapy Council and why it is important for Child Psychotherapists to join the CPC

The extend of the crisis in children’s mental health is a well known and well researched fact. 1 in 5 children and young people aged 8–25 years have a probable mental disorder. https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/medsci.2024015

The profession of Child Psychotherapy is unregulated in UK and the vast majority of “child therapy” outside of NHS CAMHS is provided by untrained and unqualified people with sometimes disastrous consequences. There are long term implications for children with negative experiences of therapy who will not seek this intervention in the future.

CPC has been founded to protect the title of Child Psychotherapy and to provide a home for practitioners who are qualified to the highest standards to bring high value, appropriate and safe therapeutic expertise to our children, adolescents and young adults.

What do we stand for:

•Protecting the title of child psychotherapy to ensure it is only used by appropriately qualified practitioners

•Creating a recognised PSA Register of Child Psychotherapists

•Creating a community of child psychotherapy professionals with a shared vision and influential voice

•Promoting rigorous standards for training and CPD

•Establishing a body of best practice principles, ethics and guidelines

•Lobbying for funding and improved mental health services for children and young people

•Influencing public policy and legislation related to child mental health

•Pioneering research

•Informing the general public on the practice, benefits and outcomes of child psychotherapy and how to select the right mental health service