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
Transactional Analysis in Britain comes under the authority of the
Institute of Transactional Analysis (ITA). The 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.
For further information about the ITA, you can visit
their website at:
www.ita.org.uk. Or
contact: Anita MacDonald / Joy Meyers, ITA Administrators, Broadway House,
149-151 St Neots Road, Hardwick, Cambs. CB23 7QJ. Tel. 0845 0099 101 (UK
local rate); +44 (0) 1954 212468 (from abroad or mobile phones); fax 0845
0099 202 (UK local rate); Skype: ita.admin; email:
admin@ita.org.uk.
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
The ITA is a member organisation of the Humanistic and Integrative
Section 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 clinical 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
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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) 7531 95271; email EATA@gmx.com
. EATA's web site is at: www.eatanews.org
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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/
.