Accreditation of clinical psychology programmes in UK
By: The British Psychological Society, September 2010
The British Psychological Society (‘the Society’) is the learned
and professional body, incorporated by Royal Charter, for psychologists in the United
Kingdom. The Society has a total membership of approximately 48,000 and is a
registered charity.
Under its Royal Charter, the key objective of the Society is ‘to
promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of psychology pure and
applied and especially to promote the efficiency and usefulness of members by
setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge’.
The Society has been involved in the accreditation of programmes
of education and training in psychology since the early 1970s. The Society
currently accredits programmes at both undergraduate (and equivalent) and
postgraduate levels.
Undergraduate and conversion programmes are accredited against
the requirements for the Society’s Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership
(GBC), the curriculum requirements for which are derived from the Quality
Assurance Agency’s subject benchmark statement for psychology.
Postgraduate programmes are accredited against the knowledge,
practice and research requirements for Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) status
in a range of domains of practice, which are defined in accordance with the
Occupational Standards for psychologists. A number of the postgraduate
programmes that are accredited by the Society are also approved by the Health
Professions Council, the statutory regulator of practitioner psychologists in
the UK.
This document has been created to provide information and
guidance for education providers seeking accreditation for programmes of
education and training in psychology from The British Psychological Society. It
contains information on our standards and also details the accreditation
through partnership process, both for
programmes seeking accreditation for the first time, and for more established
programmes preparing for a partnership visit.
Accreditation
through partnership is our model of accrediting programmes which maintains and
promotes standards whilst encouraging collaboration between the Society, the
education provider, and other interested parties. It is an opportunity for all
those involved to ensure a high standard of psychology education and training
by building on positive and constructive relationships, and by engaging in
ongoing, solution-focused support and development relationships, and by
engaging in ongoing, solution-focused support and development.
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