IAHIP CURRENT MINIMUM CRITERIA – JANUARY 2006

[A]       PERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY 

[i]         100 hours minimum individual psychotherapy during the course

 

[ii]        60 hours minimum of group work engaging and exploring one’s own process in a group setting

 

and/or

           

[iii]       60 hours of formal, contracted group psychotherapy 

[B]       PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING     [Minimum 350 hours]                                          

[i]         Theory                                                                Minimum    150 hours

 

-    Primarily drawn from  Humanistic and Integrative    

                              modalities and rooted in experiential learning

-         Other psychotherapeutic approaches

-         Human development throughout the lifespan

-         Theories of change

-         Assessment and intervention

-         Social issues

-         Psychopathology

-         Research

-         Professional issues[ethics, law and networking]

 

[ii]        Group Learning                                              Minimum 200 hours

 

-         Skills practice and training rooted in experiential learning

and primarily informed by modalities of psychotherapy

that are humanistic and integrative in nature

-         Psychotherapy practice with fellow trainees

-         Supervision of the above

-         Personal development and exploration of one’s

own process [including experiential training workshops]

-    formal contracted group psychotherapy [if applicable]                                                           

[C]       SUPERVISED CLINICAL PRACTICE      [600  hours]

 

[i]         Supervised Practice within Training Minimum 130 hours

 

[ii]        Post-course Practicum                                   Minimum   400  hours

           

-         to be spread over at least two years

-         at least 100 of these hours in the 12 months preceding application 

 

[D]       SUPERVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE

 

 

[i]         During training a ratio of one hour of supervision to four hours of client work is recommended.

 

[ii]        During the period of pre-accreditation, a minimum ratio of one hour of supervision to eight hours of client work is recommended.

 

[iii]       Where supervision is in a group, the group shall not exceed four supervisees.

            Each supervisee shall receive one hour of credit for every two hours of group supervision.

 

[iv]       Graduate pre-accredited therapists should not be supervised by their training supervisor. [Training finishes at graduation].

 

A period of three months shall be allowed following graduation to allow the newly-graduated therapist to seek out a new supervisor.

 

[v]        Supervisor to have considerable experience [at least five years] as a psychotherapist, is an accredited member of IAHIP or has equivalent professional accreditation, familiar with and sympathetic towards humanistic and integrative psychotherapy.

[vi]       As of from January 1^st 2007  supervisors must be accredited supervisors.

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