British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy is a professional body representing counselling and psychotherapy with over 40000 members and works toward a better standard of therapeutic practice.

Here as per your demand I am providing you application form of the Senior Accreditation – Counsellor/Psychotherapist for Children and Young People



Criteria for Application

You can apply for Senior Accreditation – Counsellor/Psychotherapist for Children and Young People if you provide counselling or psychotherapy to individual clients up to the age of 18 years

Eligibility criteria

When you apply and throughout the assessment process you must be:

1 An accredited counsellor/psychotherapist member of BACP and thereby comply with the association’s Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

2. Covered by professional indemnity insurance.When you submit your application, you must:

3.Be in current practice as a counsellor / psychotherapist for children and young people.

4.Have an ongoing contract for counselling/psychotherapy supervision for a minimum of 1.5 hours per month for each month in which practice is undertaken with a supervisor who is experienced in working therapeutically with children and/or young people.

Ongoing development and experience

5.Have undertaken a minimum of 300 hours of supervised counsellor/psychotherapist practice over at least three years since initial accreditation, of which a minimum of 100 hours are with children and/or young people.

6. Have a minimum of 90 hours of CYP related CPD relevant to your role as a counsellor/psychotherapist over at least three years since initial accreditation. This must contain child & adolescent development and legal, safeguarding and ethical issues.


Contact Details:

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP House, 15 St John's Business Park, Lutterworth LE17 4HB
Tel: 01455 883300
Fax: 01455 550243

Attached Files

Application form of the Senior Accreditation.doc (154.0 KB, 52 views)