The Berne Institute's TA training programmes meet all the requirements of TA professional associations at both national and international levels.
The Institute of Transactional Analysis
The Institute of Transactional
Analysis (ITA), a Registered Charity, has some 1,000 members. It publishes
a newsletter, ITA News, appearing five times yearly, and a professional
journal, Transactions, appearing thrice yearly. The ITA holds an
annual national conference, plus various regional and special-interest
gatherings. The ITA is also responsible for organising examinations in
the UK held under the Europe-wide auspices of the European Association
for Transactional Analysis (see entry for EATA below).
For further
information about the ITA, you can visit their website at:
www.ita.org.uk.
Or contact: Judith Macroff, ITA Administrator, Broadway House, 149-151
St Neots Road, Hardwick, Cambs. CB23 7QJ. Tel./fax +44 (0) 1954 212468;
email:
admin@ita.org.uk.
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
The Berne Institute, like
the ITA, is an Organisational Member of the Humanistic and Integrative
College of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Though
not a government department, the UKCP operates with governmental approval.
It has the task of maintaining and improving the standards of psychotherapy
- of all modalities - within the United Kingdom. As one part of this function,
the UKCP issues an annually updated Register of Psychotherapists.
Professional
Members of the ITA, if qualified in the Psychotherapy field, have the right
to be listed in the UKCP's National Register as Transactional Analysis
Psychotherapists.
The UKCP
publishes a twice-yearly newsletter, The Psychotherapist,
as well
as organising an annual conference.
For further
information on the UKCP, contact: The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy,
2nd Floor, Edward House, 2 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7LT. Tel.: 020 7014
9955; fax 020 7014 9977; email:
ukcp@ukcp.org.uk
; web site: www.ukcp.org.uk
.
The European Association for Transactional
Analysis
Britain's ITA is among more
than twenty TA associations in European countries which are affiliated
to the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA). Registered
in Switzerland as a non-profit professional association, EATA has an expanding
membership currently numbering some 6,000. The Association publishes a
thrice-yearly Newsletter and organises an annual conference.
One of
EATA's most important tasks is to administer the system of standard, competency-based
professional examinations for transactional analysts in Europe. This is
the special province of EATA's Commission of Certification (COC). Britain's
ITA, like all the other European associations, uses the COC examination
structure as the basis for accrediting TA professionals.
The Executive
Secretary of EATA is: Marianne Rauter, Silvanerweg 8, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.
Tel. (+49) (0) 7531 95270; fax (+49) (0) 7531 95271; email EATA@gmx.com
. EATA's web site is at: www.eatanews.org
.
The International Transactional Analysis
Association
EATA maintains close professional
ties with the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA).
This is a worldwide "umbrella" organisation for TA. It is a non-profit
educational corporation, and is based in San Francisco. In its role as
an international forum for TA services and standards, the ITAA makes feasible
the mutual recognition of TA professional credentials in 60 countries around
the world. Its accreditation arm, the Board of Certification, performs
the same role outside of Europe as EATA's COC does within Europe; the BOC
and COC stay in close liaison with each other so as to maintain comparability
in the competency-based examinations that the two bodies conduct in their
respective areas.
The ITAA
publishes a monthly newsletter, The Script, and a quarterly journal
of theory and research in TA, the Transactional Analysis Journal.
You can
contact ITAA at: 2186 Rheem Drive, #B-1, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA. Tel.
+1 925 600 8110; fax +1 925 600 8112;
email:
itaa@itaa-net.org . For more information on the ITAA, you may like
to visit their web site: www.itaa-net.org/
.