New Open Letter from the Person-Centred Community asks BACP to Halt SCoPEd and Open an Inclusive Dialogue
Therapists and organisations from across the person-centred community and beyond have come together to sign an open letter asking BACP to halt the SCoPEd project and re-engage with the profession as a whole as we consider the future of counselling and psychotherapy.
PCP is in full support of the letter, which has been signed by a number of our partner organisations, and led by members of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy and The Person-Centred Association.
The letter and full list of signatories, originally published on the Alliance website here, can be read below:
SCoPEd: Insufficient and Incongruent
An open letter to BACP
As Person-Centred therapists and supporters of the Person-Centred Approach, we have become increasingly concerned about the development of the SCoPEd project for counselling and psychotherapy. Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) constitutes one of the most widely practised approaches within BACP and yet SCoPEd has marginalised and excluded Person-Centred therapists almost entirely. After the first consultation, we were assured that PCT – an...