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The European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) is a Vienna-based umbrella organisation for 128 psychotherapist organizations (including 32 national associations and 18 European associations) from 43 countries with a membership of more than 120,000 psychotherapists.[1] Individual members may also join the organisation directly rather than through one of its member organisations.
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The EAP has sponsored much of the European effort from the mid-1990s toward the professionalisation of psychotherapy and the formation of pan-European training standards, ethics and guidelines.[2]
A submission to the European Commission to establish the Common Training Framework for the Profession of Psychotherapist is currently in process (2021).
The President of EAP is Irena Bezić (Croatia);[3] the general secretary of the EAP is Tom Warnecke (UK)[4]
The association is based on the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy of 1990 whereby the EAP promotes the need for high standards of training on a scientific basis, and fights for free and independent exercise of psychotherapy in Europe.[1] Important activities include:
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