European Association for Psychotherapy

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The European Association for Psychotherapy (German: European Psychotherapy Association) is based in Vienna . President is Philippe Vrancken (Belgium); The general secretary is Eugenijus Laurinaitis (Lithuania).

The EAP represents 128 organizations (including 28 national umbrella organizations and 17 European associations) from 41 countries with more than 120,000 psychotherapists. In Germany, the German umbrella organization for psychotherapy is the national recognition organization (NAO) for awarding the Euro certificate and a member of the EAP. Individual members can also join. Based on the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy of 1990 , the EAP represents the need for high educational standards on a scientific basis and fights for the free and independent practice of psychotherapy across Europe. Important activities are:

  • EAP Ethical Guidelines: The EAP has drawn up ethical guidelines to protect patients and endeavors to enforce them across Europe
  • European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP): The aim of this European Psychotherapy Certificate is a comparable training standard and mutual recognition of training courses across Europe
  • Founding member of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP): Active participation in the WCP as a founding member
  • Publication of the International Journal of Psychotherapy ISSN  1356-9082
  • Register for ECP-Psychotherapists: Creation of a database with the availability of psychotherapists all over Europe

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EAP: EAP: Executive Board. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europsyche.org
  2. ^ Franz-Josef Hücker: The Dodo verdict and psychotherapeutic care. EAP conference on the future of German psychotherapy in Europe . In: Sozial Extra 9/10 2013, 37th year (VS Verlag, Springer Fachmedien DE, Wiesbaden), pp. 6–9.