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The aims of the Faculty are to:
- increase awareness of an holistic approach within psychology
- foster its development, critical evaluation and adoption by practitioners, and
- increase knowledge and understanding in this field.
The Faculty also seeks to apply the accepted models and methodologies of clinical psychology to the psychological aspects of complementary therapies. We hope that this will help to facilitate the integration of the often fragmented psychological healing methods that exist in other therapeutic fields.
We aim to achieve the above by:
- Promoting post-qualification training and the dissemination of information via conferences and meetings at national and regional level
- Offering support and guidance to practitioners wishing to adopt an holistic approach
- The production and circulation of a newsletter in electronic format
- Promoting and publishing research into holistic therapies and providing peer review for research protocols designed by SIG members
- Influencing the training of clinical psychologists by seeking to promote the inclusion of holistic approaches in postgraduate training courses
- Maintaining a list of members qualified to teach various aspects of holistic theory and practice, this list being available to departments of psychology and postgraduate training courses
- Liaising with other professional bodies having similar interests
- Acting as a source of expertise to the DCP concerning matters relating to holistic psychology
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