A first summary about this activities will be given at the next board meeting, 14th of February 1998 in Vienna. The European Certificate of Psychotherapy Criteria and procedure for its award Approved by the Governing Board of the European Association of Psychotherapy and adopted by the Delegates of the Annual Meeting in Rome in June 1997. Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Psychotherapy in Rome 29th, June 1997. In 1991, the European Association for Psychotherapy was founded in Vienna, Austria. Psychotherapists from Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and Austria were the founding members and in the meanwhile, the association has been enriched by colleagues from Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine.
Membership is also open to individual psychotherapists.
The EAP is concerned to protect the interst of this profession and the public it serves, by ensuring that the profession functions at an appropriate level of training and practice. One of its immediate aims is to establish a European Certificate of Psychotherapy which will ensure psychotherapists are trained to EAP standards and which will guarantee mobility of professionals across the European Union. Training in psychotherapy takes place at an advanced, qualified and scientific level. The multiplicity of the methods of psychotherapy is aasured and guaranteed. In a process of psychotherapy, training is carried out in full and includes theory, self-experience and practice under supervision.