Accreditation
The Certificate and Diploma Courses are accredited by three of the most influential organisations in Hypnotherapy today:
The National Council for Hypnotherapy
www.hypnotherapists.org.uk
The Hypnotherapy Association
www.thehypnotherapyassociation.co.uk
The NCFE
www.ncfe.org.uk
As approved and accredited trainers the Surrey College of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy web site may be accessed from both the NCH and HA web sites.
Accreditation from these bodies assures the student that training is thorough, comprehensive and Nationally recognised. Further at the time of print, by enrolling with the SCCP you automatically become a student member of the NCH and HA affording you the governing bodies quarterly journals free, and on successful completion of the Diploma Course and payment of annual fee full membership with the entitlement to use the letters MNCH and LHA after your name.
There is a fee of £8 for registration with the NCFE if you wish to gain the Hypnotherapy Practitioners Diploma by studying with the SCCP.
The following offers a brief history and background of each organisation; however, the individual web sites are worth visiting as they allow an understanding of the influence in intellectual development and therapeutic intervention, which we are unable to reproduce in this space.
The National Council For Hypnotherapy
The NCFE is an awarding governing body operating throughout the UK offering qualifications from pre-entry level up to and including NVQ level 4.
The NCH, which includes The Hypnotherapy Register, are founder members of the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations. (Registering / Accrediting). The NCH are an independent regulating body committed to excellence in training and professional development. Who accredit training schools but have no ties with any particular school ensuring that all members provide a competent, ethical service.
The National council for Hypnotherapy holds one of the largest registers of independent Hypnotherapists in the United Kingdom and strives to maintain the highest standards among its members.
The National Council for Hypnotherapy, the largest hypnotherapy register mentioned in the recent Exeter University report on Complementary Medicine (Second Edition) is striving to meet ALL the guidelines suggested by this report for the regulation of Complementary Medicine. Via the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations and are actively involved with the Foundation for Integrative Medicine and the future of the profession.
There is an agreed code of conduct, an established complaint and disciplinary procedure and all members are obliged to maintain comprehensive Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance.
The National Council for Hypnotherapy is concerned that the patient receives the highest possible quality of treatment and any comments you have may be sent, in confidence, to the Executive Director. If requested, the complaints procedure will be invoked, but whatever the comment you will receive a personal reply.
The Hypnotherapy Association
The Hypnotherapy Association is one of the largest independent professional bodies in Britain representing hypnotherapists in active practice. A non-profit making organisation, The Hypnotherapy Association is pledged to the highest standards of "Good Practice" which its members are required to uphold. Democratically run by practising hypnotherapists the Hypnotherapy Association institutes rigorous criteria for the regulation and continual professional development of its members, so that any person seeking the services of any of its members may be offered the best duty of care. Both the UK Hypnotherapy Register and the Membership Database provide a directory of The Hypnotherapy Association's practising members. All such members are fully insured and bound by our codes of ethics.
Aims Of The Hypnotherapy Association
1. To maintain a National Register of Practising Hypnotherapists.
2. To accept into membership those members from the register who can demonstrate the required competence and experience for membership entitlement.
3. To improve and increase the knowledge and skill of all members by providing workshops, seminars and meetings demonstrating special techniques and skills.
4. To maintain contact with the medical profession and other complimentary disciplines. To carry out the recommendations of the 1993 BMA report "Complimentary Medicine new approaches to good practice".
5. To maintain contact and improve understanding with in the NHS, Regional Health Authorities and Private Health Insurers.
6. To operate a self-regulatory body for hypnotherapy and promote the National Register of Practitioners by contact with politicians in government.
7. To print and publish information promoting hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and associated techniques.
8. To issue membership certificates and make available Professional Liability Insurance for membership.
The NCFE
The NCFE is an awarding governing body operating throughout the UK offering qualifications from pre-entry level up to and including level 4.
Colleges, private training providers, adult education centres, community groups, schools and businesses offer NCFE qualifications, schemes and awards. In the last academic year, over 150,000 used their NCFE Certificates to boost their career prospects realise their ambitions and achieve their goals.
The NCFE can trace their record of working with colleges and other providers back to their founding organisations, the Northern Union of Mechanics Institutes (NUMI). The NCFE's earliest incarnation held lofty ambitions. Its first report declared its intention to "become a centre from whence the elements of knowledge and civilisation shall go on with an unceasing progress conferring intellectual, scientific and moral blessings throughout the length and breath of the Northern Counties".
From 1920, the "Northern Counties" Technical Examination Council (NCTEC or 'Northern Counties' as it became affectionately known) supplemented the NUMI and in 1981, the Northern advisory Council for Further Education (NACFE) merged with the NCTEC to become the Northern Council For Further Education.
When the further education sector was incorporated (made independent of the government) in the early 1990s the company felt the old name was incompatible with their new national focus, and has hence since been identified simply as NCFE with the letters no longer being an acronym.
For further information see www.ncfe.org.uk
The NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in England, the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland, and the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCAC)
The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) provides a simple structure of academic and vocational qualifications available at different levels, it also defines how qualifications are regulated and awarded. The framework is managed by QCA; the government body that regulates all publicly funded qualifications offered by awarding bodies in England.
This important qualification is available to students studying with the SCCP under the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma independently through the NCFE, equivalent to NVQ 4, conferring the professional qualification of HPD. As far as we know this is the first nationally recognised hypnotherapy qualification in the UK.