Generic Guidelines and Requirements for Grandparenting
Supervisors for Supervising Psychotherapy Practitioners and Trainee Practitioners working with Adults within the UKCP College of
Hypno-Psychotherapists
1. Introduction
1.1 In this document
the aim is to make clear the route by which already established supervisors can reach College accreditation and formal registration
with UKCP as a Supervisor through the route know as Grandparenting.
1.2 This document is not at all involved
in the formatting of individual registrants’ supervision choices.
1.3 For
the purpose of this document the term psychotherapeutic practitioner throughout will refer to both psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic
counsellors working with adults.
1.4 This document takes the view that the supervision of clinical practice with clients whether
by a psychotherapeutic counsellor or a psychotherapist requires similar levels of attention to the nature and standards of
supervision. Such an approach is seen as being in line with the principle of protection of the public interest and
of safeguarding the client.
1.5 For the purposes of this document the term adult is understood to refer to any person who is 18 years
and over in age. The term child refers to any person under the age of 18 years.
1.6 In this context Grandparenting can be defined as the process of recognising the skills and knowledge
of an individual who has not completed a UKCP accredited training programme in Supervision, but who nevertheless meets the
minimum standards set by the Training Member Organisation, by virtue of their considerable proven, relevant, professional
experience ranging over a reasonably long period of time.
1.7
Grand-parented individuals will have trained and /or
developed their expertise in the field of supervision before the development of the new custom and practice of course recognition
in Supervision.
1.8 While the individual may have had minimal sustained formal training in this field, their long professional
experience and professional development will be such that they will have achieved equivalence to learning outcomes as stipulated
in the document UKCP College of Hypno-psychotherapists Standards for Supervision
1.9 and
can evidence such equivalence.
1.10 UKCP accreditation as a supervisor of psychotherapeutic practitioners working with adults through
the Grandparenting Clause will only be available for a limited period of time. Applications will need to be submitted
and the process completed within 3 years from the date of publication of this document.
1.11 Application for the UKCP Supervision Grandparenting Route must be made to an Organisational Member
(OM) in the first instance. The standards described here are based on the existing requirements for competence of the UKCP
standards framework for supervision work with psychotherapeutic practitioners working with adults.
1.12 The
development of these standards is essential for Colleges where their MOs wish to put people forward to be placed on the UKCP
Register of Supervisors for Adult Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Counselling or where the MO is an accrediting organisation
solely for the purpose of putting people to the register of supervisors. 1.13 It is acknowledged that no document
can be exhaustive in its scope; however, the guidelines set out herein are intended to set a tone, character and attitudinal
approach to the development of supervision grandparenting guidelines by Colleges and centrally by UKCP.
1.14 As
with all the Training, Education and Practice Guidelines and Requirements of UKCP, these guidelines should be understood as
forming part of the quality assurance and regulatory map of UKCP, its Colleges and its MOs.
1.15 Please see the
list at the end of this document for the correct titles of all other UKCP documents relating to minimum generic guidelines
and requirements for education and training standards of supervision and routes to supervisor accreditation, including specific
documents relating to working with children.
2. Definition
2.1 Supervision
is understood as a process conducted within a formal working relationship in which a qualified or trainee psychotherapeutic
practitioner presents client work to a designated supervisor, as a way of learning how to work more effectively with clients.
2.2 The purpose is to ensure
safe and competent practice through regular meetings. Colleges should set out the media through which supervision
can take place and any requirements for frequency and ratios of clinical work to supervision hours that the modality requires.
3. GRANDPARENTING REQUIREMENTS
3.1 There are two routes to registration as a College Supervisor:
a. First Route: Through successful completion of a College and UKCP recognised
Supervisor Training Course. (See documents: UKCP College of Hypno-psychotherapists Standards for Supervision
and UKCP College of Hypno-psychotherapists SETs for Supervision)
b. Second Route: Through the successful application to be considered under
the Grandparenting Scheme for existing supervisors. (This document). 3.2 All supervisors offered to the Register via Grandparenting
must normally fulfil the following criteria:
a.
Must be UKCP Registrant with a minimum of 5 years experience
as a psychotherapeutic practitioner post-qualification or UKCP recognised professional equivalent;
b.
At least 3 years’ experience of post-registration work as a supervisor
/ or 50 hours of formal supervision given (50 % or more of this should normally be one-to-one supervision);
c. Where an applicant has qualified,
registered and practises in more than one modality approach as a psychotherapeutic practitioner or UKCP recognised
professional equivalent they must:
i.
Demonstrate at least 2 years of formally supervised
experience of work with clients as a qualified registered Psychotherapy Practitioner in each supervised as
per modality requirements at the timeand
ii.
Demonstrate at least 5 years of formally supervised experience
of work with clients overall supervised as per modality requirements at the time
Where an applicant has qualified, registered and practises in one
modality approach they must demonstrate at least 5 years of formally supervised experience of
work with clients supervised as per modality requirements at the time
d. Must have been in formal individual supervision of supervision for at least 25 hours.
3.3 These must incorporate the UKCP minimum generic
standards as set out elsewhere in this document and any others applicable from the other generic standards on supervision
published by the UKCP and its relevant committees and
a. Standards for supervisors
b.
Responsibility to the
supervisee
c. Clinical responsibilities
d. Diversity and Equality Considerations
e.
The Supervisors Responsibility
to Self
f. Produces / presents a short written model of their Supervision Framework including style, approach and understanding
of supervision (we recommend that this should be no more than 1.5 to 2 sides of A4 typed);
Acknowledgement: Please note these
guidelines are the culmination of work done by several organisations and individuals within and without the UKCP over a number
of years across several modalities. All the contributors known and unknown, are thanked for their thoughts, ideas, efforts
and contributions.
Documents
Training Standard
of UKCP - 1993
UKCP
Training Standards: Policy and Principles – 2001
Psychotherapy with Children; UKCP Guidelines for Training -2003
Psychotherapy with Children; Principles, Aims and Guidelines for Training -2007
UKCP Standards of Education and Training: policy and Principles—(being
created) 
