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Federation of Centers for Positive Psychotherapy (EFCPP)
The EFCPP is the umbrella organization of national, regional and local centers of Positive Psychotherapy in Europe. It fulfils, at present, the tasks of an European Association of Positive Psychotherapy, and represents the interests of Positive Psychotherapy at the continental level in Europe. Its main fields are training, teaching, research and psychotherapeutic practice, and these activities are also pursued by the different member countries and centers. The EFCPP was formally established in 1997, and has been approved by the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP) on 24.10.1998 as an European Wide Organization (EWO) and a European Wide Accrediting Organization (EWAO). A Board of Directors directs its affairs; the Head Office is in Wiesbaden, Germany. The EFCPP has evolved from the International Center of Positive Psychotherapy (ICPP), which is the international umbrella organization of Positive Psychotherapy. The following countries are represented with their centers in the EFCPP: Germany, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey. National Associations of Positive Psychotherapy exist in Germany, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Romania; others are being formed. Since 1974, the method of Positive Psychotherapy has been introduced in more than 80 countries worldwide, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s the first Centers of Positive Psychotherapy were established. The EFCPP has engaged itself specially in the establishing of psychotherapy in Eastern Europe, and today in countries such as Russia, Bulgaria and Romania, Positive Psychotherapy is one of the most well-known and well-established psychotherapeutic methods. Due to the engagement of many colleagues, it has been possible to contribute to the formulation of psychotherapeutic laws in several countries. In Russia alone are more than 20 regional centers of Positive Psychotherapy. Outside of Europe, Positive Psychotherapy is specially represented in China, India, Bolivia and South Africa. In all these countries, thousands of doctors, psychologists and teachers have been trained in hundreds of training seminars in Positive Psychotherapy. Transcultural research has been always very important in the field of Positive Psychotherapy, as it claims to be a transcultural psychotherapeutic method. Results of these researches have been presented at numerous national and international conferences, and approximately 20 Ph.D. dissertations have been successfully defended on topics related to Positive Psychotherapy. Books on Positive Psychotherapy have been published in many European languages, and have been among the first ones in Eastern Europe. The members of the EFCPP have been the main force behind the two World Conferences on Positive Psychotherapy in St. Petersburg, Russia (1997) and Wiesbaden, Germany (2000). The 3rd International Conference on Positive Psychotherapy took place this September/October 2003 in Varna, Bulgaria. Head Office: European Federation
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