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The Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework is a ground-breaking shared standards framework, which sets out the core training, practice and competence requirements for counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults.

Open article: News and resources from the BACP research team. Therapy Today, November 2023

‘We’ve made progress in the work we’re doing to bring more therapists into the NHS’. Therapy Today, December 2023

Open article: ‘After years of being silenced, I found someone who wanted to listen’. Therapy Today, March 2025.

A competence framework to recognise and support the roles of workplace counsellors and enhance professional standards

Sarah Haywood shares the ways that navigating her own path through autism assessment and formal recognition helped to challenge her misapprehensions and inaccurate beliefs. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

Open article: If we are to support people living with Parkinson’s disease, we must understand the importance not only of the motor symptoms but also of the psychological effects, as Deirdre Daly explains. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, January 2026.

Open article: Founder of Animas Centre for Coaching, Nick Bolton, explores coaching as a lived philosophy that mirrors humanity in all its complexity. Coaching Today, July 2025.

Joining BACP CYPF links you with a large, diverse and experienced group of practitioners who are committed to furthering ethical and effective counselling and psychotherapy for children and young people.

A recognition of prior learning (RPL) route that’s temporarily available for previous senior accredited members (awarded prior to 2023), now accredited members, who were unable to apply for our revised senior accredited membership category during the SCoPEd transition period.