[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[JKirkpatrick]

Liberals in the US have been impressed to various degrees with
the success of UK's National Health program, likewise those in
Canada and France, & following Michael Moore's famous movie
"Sicko", in Taiwan as well. 
So far as psychotherapy goes, it seems that a fly is about to
appear in the UK ointment. The state is now working toward
regulating psychotherapies and practitioners, as the website of a
gathering opposition to this take-over says: "The new regulations
proposed for the talking therapies - which include 451 rules for
the analytic session-would effectively make it impossible to
practice psychoanalysis and many other forms of therapy in the
way they have been practiced for the last hundred years. The
Health Professions Council plans a public campaign to discredit
those practitioners whose own practice and ethical code would not
allow them to sign up to its market-led vision of therapy and
normality.
The main reason given for the regulatory project is protection of
the public. Yet all analytic and therapy organisations already
have stringent codes of ethics and practice, as well as
complaints procedures. Replacing these with an inherently
unsuited model of healthcare will destroy the growth and vitality
of the field for both therapists and those who consult them. We
urge an alternative model, like that adopted in other countries,
where government intervention is limited to the requirement that
all therapists join a register which is administered by an
independent professional body, giving full details of their
training and affiliations. This would enable members of the
public to make their own informed choice rather than having
politicians make it for them."

See more at  http://www.coregp.org/  and
http://www.allianceforcandp.org/ .

Here in the US we have therapists who both teach and practice
Buddhist routines and also psychological counseling. There must
be similar in the UK. It would be valuable to have some comment
from UK on this conflict between the therapeutic counselors and
the state. 

Joanna K.


 

   

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