Appendix
Appendix 1a
1990 Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy:
- Psychotherapy is an independent scientific discipline, the practice of which represents an independent and free profession.
- Training in psychotherapy takes place at an advanced, qualified and scientific level.
- The multiplicity of psychotherapeutic methods is assured and guaranteed.
- A full psychotherapeutic training covers theory, self- experience and practice under supervision. Adequate knowledge of various psychotherapeutic processes is acquired.
- Access to training is through various preliminary qualifications, in particular in human and social sciences.
Appendix 1b
EAP 2009 Definition of Psychotherapy [1]
- The exercise of psychotherapy shall be the comprehensive deliberate and planned treatment or therapeutic intervention on the basis of a general and special training of disturbances of behaviour and states of disordered condition, or wider personal developmental need, connected with psycho-social and also psychosomatic factors and causes, by means of scientific psychotherapeutic methods, in an interaction between one or several treated persons, and one or several psychotherapists, with the objective of mitigating or eliminating the established symptoms, to change disturbed patterns of behaviour and attitudes, and to promote a process of maturing, development, sanity and well-being in the treated person.
- The independent exercise of psychotherapy shall consist in the practical implementation, at the therapist's sole responsibility, of the activities described in paragraph 1, irrespective of whether the activities are exercised on a self-employed basis or in the framework of an employment relationship.
Footnotes:
[1] EAP Template for a National Psychotherapy Law, amended Lisbon, July 2009.