Talk:Association for Psychological Therapies/Archive 1

Archive 1

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Shelton, Lyn (2019). "Chapter 5: Neurodevelopmental disorder - learning disability in secure forensic psychiatric services". In Tully, Ruth; Bamford, Jennifer (eds.). Case Studies in Forensic Psychology: Clinical Assessment and Treatment. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-138-58482-2.

The author of this page has been paid (by thier own admission) to make misleading claims in regard to The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT). Edits pointing out these false claims have repeatedly been removed.

The APT most certainly has NOT been used by the NHS and never would be. Mental health professionals who work for the NHS must undergo rigerous training that lasts year and requires years of supervision.

APT sells 'packages' lasting around 3 days claiming to give those who undertake the course (such as CBT or DBT) an accredited certifcate. Again, claiming that these would be of use in the NHS setting is a complete fabrication.

Nothing taught by APT is accredited or approved by the BPS, BABCP, UKCP or the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

The references provided in regard to APT's links to the NHS are sketchy at best. A self authored paper that has nothing to do with APT or any role it provides to the NHS is not sufficiant to make such claims. Caprikris 19/02/2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caprikris (talk • contribs) 22:33, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback, and I can confirm that I am a paid contributor to Wikipedia - this is the correct way of me being able to edit information on this page whilst being employed by the APT. Your claims have taken us aback because everything on this page is correct. Over 125,000 mental health professionals have attended our courses, the biggest single customer being the NHS. We are proud to have been delivering post-qualification training to NHS Trusts and all the major independent healthcare providers in the UK for nearly forty years. Many of our tutors are full time employed by the NHS and the major independents. Many such tutors run our courses in the NHS for their colleagues.

Details regarding our accreditation can now be found under ‘Accreditation’ to make things even clearer. APT courses are accredited by the Association for Psychological Therapies and we publish exactly what that means on our website. APT never seeks accreditation for its courses from outside bodies, mainly because of our size and the fact that our courses continuously evolve in response to feedback from our tutors and attendees.

The training we provide is ‘post-qualification’, meaning that the people who undertake our courses must have an underlying professional qualification, to be able to use the techniques gained on our courses with their clients/patients. Our accreditation system is therefore designed to give a clear and transparent level of what post qualification training they have achieved with the APT, and their employer can refer to this on our website. Mark Stuart Betts (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2021 (UTC)